Cisco Premier Consulting and Support Cisco introduced new products intended specifically for small business IT networks and engineered to deliver exceptional levels of security and collaboration at an affordable price. Products introduced by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of the Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a dedicated spam, virus, and phishing filter security device that virtually eradicates email-based attacks right out of the box. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop NAS appliances that provide protection for important information and allow employees to access shared information effortlessly. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4, a complete sharing and communications system that easily connects sites, workers, and clients anywhere. Cisco's latest release incorporates the industry's first wireless small-footprint IP handset with Bluetooth capabilities. To view Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Introduces Connectivity and Collaboration Solutions for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Consultants The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance protects small companies by offering powerful defense against spam, viruses and other email-borne threats to secure your network and corporate data while at the same time improve productivity. Because the appliance blocks spam and viruses right out of the box and stays current on its own, it avoids the cost and hassle associated initial configuration and continuing and management. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the throughput of networks, application servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker appliance represents an end-to-end defense against email-born threats by including a physical appliance, software, ongoing updates, and technical assistance in a unified bundle.

Notable benefits of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance are:

  • Accuracy: Assists to make sure that email threats and spam are intercepted while legitimate email is accepted.
  • Ongoing self-installed patches: Constant interaction with SenderBase security, a network database of email safety threats, makes sure that your Cisco Spam Blocker appliance incorporates the latest updates to protect your business email.
  • Simple installation and operation: User-friendly web-based setup tools allow you to configure Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in nearly any network in minutes, delivering immediate security for your business.
  • Streamlined administration: From the moment you installs the Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and virus protection with minimal extra hassle demanded from your network support group.

NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems Consulting Services The NSS2000 and 3000 provide the dependable security and advanced backup features that your company needs, at a price small organizations can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 accommodates as much as to four terabytes of data and as many as 15 concurrent users per chassis, offering the ideal answer for storing, sharing, and backing up your mission-critical corporate data. As distinct from ordinary network-attached storage systems, the NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art backup, encryption, user authentication, and fault tolerance your organization requires.

The Small Business NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure handles any approved disk. The enclosure offers a range of capabilities in a desktop-size footprint designed for small organizations. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also provides you the flexibility to configure the product without any connected hard disk drives, to modify it easily, and to link several Cisco NAS chassis together, offering a platform that can smoothly expand with your company.

Your business can use the Cisco NSS2000 or NSS3000 Network Storage Systems to:

  • Intelligently copy vital data from every workstation and application server in your organization
  • Offer unified storage and sharing of important information
  • Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy unattended every revision of every file saved by employees, permitting your company to recover information quickly
  • Store and save video from your company's surveillance system

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Support Services The Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive sharing and communications solution that permits small organizations to interconnect telecommuters, on-the-road workers and office workers in separate locations to improve their options to interact with customers and colleagues. In Release 1.4, the affordable solution has improved wireless support such as the first wireless desktop VoIP handset with built-in Bluetooth technology, the SPA525G VoIP phone, which allows businesses to grow easily by deploying phones in locations where traditional telephone wires or network wiring is missing or cannot conveniently be added.

Other new components of the Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 are:

  • The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router to help protect the company's infrastructure and give employees safe access to the Internet and important corporate information remotely or locally
  • The Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to allow partners to streamline the configuration and installation of solutions created specifically for certain businesses

How Progent's Consulting Experts Can Assist Your Business to Take Advantage of Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco certified support professionals and Cisco CCIE network engineers can help you to evaluate the latest Cisco technologies to understand their value for your IT system, set up Cisco security and communication platforms to improve the security and performance of your information network, and maintain Cisco products both onsite and online to keep your network running dependably. Progent's consultants can provide a variety of cost-effective services to enhance the dependability, security, efficiency, and maintainability of your information system:

Immediate Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Network Engineers
Progent is the leading source of easy, immediate, and cost-effective help from Cisco CCIE support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are elite network experts who earn this top-level accreditation only after strenuous testing by Cisco. CCIEs can handle even the most challenging issues encountered with network design, integration, troubleshooting, and service. Progent’s CCIE professionals interact closely with Cisco in-house staff in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS platform and finding workarounds or obtaining patches to resolve problems. Progent offers immediate access to a CCIE by telephone so you are able to get emergency assistance for complex network troubles that are impacting worker productivity but are outside the expertise of your usual IT service resources. Progent's CCIE support experts can access your network using advanced remote support tools in order to provide fast and cost-effective analysis and repair of critical infrastructure difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco-certified IP phone and video IP phone experts can help you to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the latest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Unified CM, originally branded CallManager, or with Cisco Unified CM Express to build a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide support with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and designing UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for survivability. For additional information about Progent's services for Cisco's Unified Communications solutions, refer to Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Professional Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously known as CallManager, is the core of Cisco's collaboration portfolio. Unified CM and Unified CM Express (CME) offer an advanced IP-PBX by integrating tightly with unified messaging apps like Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for creating an advanced customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM and CallManager consultants can assist with any facet of Unified Communications Manager support and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and video phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN support, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE support, designing Cisco UCS server failover systems for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consulting professionals provide high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall engineering support including architecture, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home offices to modular gigabit products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of security, performance, and high reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's CISA, CISM and CISSP-premier security consultants can provide a range of budget-friendly network security Inventory service bundles and network security assessment bundles designed to give organizations of all sizes a chance to receive an independent look at the quality of their security profile. The packages vary from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal network security scan packages for small companies up to a high-level network security assessment package for institutions who need meet security standards required by government agencies or by vendors. For every security inventory or evaluation bundle, consultants with top security credentials analyze and summarize collected information and provide suggestions for effective improvements.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk consultants and CUBE integration experts can assist your business to design, deploy, manage, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE-based SIP trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective online or onsite expertise to help you to move smoothly to a productive communications network that delivers accelerated return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media applications such as Skype for Business and Lync for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that incorporates a broad range of wireless products and technologies and offers the identical security, scalability, and ease of management you expect from a wired environment. Progent can assist you to implement transparent integration between Cisco wireless technology and wireless devices and software from other vendors to offer your business the functionality you need plus the most protected, reliable, and economical WLAN system available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can show you how to design protection into your WLAN and into your company's processes.

Simplified Administration Tools for Cisco-powered Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network engineers can provide help with Cisco's network management utilities alongside a selection of powerful third-party products to create a comprehensive network management strategy in order to keep your environment running reliably, conserve expensive resources, guard your data, recover quickly from device failure or deliberate assaults, and enable you to add or reassign network components sensibly and affordably as your business grows.

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