New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Cisco unveiled new products targeted specifically for small company networks and engineered to deliver outstanding security and collaboration at an affordable price. Solutions announced by Cisco included the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest release of the SBCS.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a purpose-built email security product that essentially eradicates email attacks as shipped. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical desktop network-attached storage appliances that offer protection for valuable data and allow workers to exchange information effortlessly. Cisco's SBCS Version 1.4, a complete sharing and communications solution that easily connects sites, workers, and clients anywhere. The latest version incorporates the industry's first cordless small-footprint IP phone with Bluetooth capabilities. To read Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Introduces Networking and Security Solutions for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker safeguards small organizations by offering powerful protection against junk mail, viruses and phishing as well as other email-borne threats to guard your network and business information while enhance efficiency. Since the appliance stops spam and viruses right out of the box and updates on its own, it avoids the cost and time associated setup and continuing and administration. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker helps the performance of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a comprehensive solution email-born attacks by including hardware, software, continuous updates, and technical assistance in a unified package.

Notable features of the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance include:

• Accuracy: Assists to ensure that email attacks and junk mail are intercepted and legitimate messages are delivered.
• Ongoing automatic patches: Constant communication with SenderBase security, an online database of email safety risks, ensures that your Spam & Virus Blocker appliance installs the most current patches to protect your corporate email.
• Easy installation and use: Easy-to-use web-based setup tools allow you to configure Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in almost any network within minutes, providing instant protection for your company.
• Streamlined administration: From the moment your company deploys the Cisco's Spam Blocker, you get junk mail and malware filtering with no additional effort demanded of your IT group.

Cisco NSS2000 and 3000
The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems provide the dependable security and comprehensive data backup capabilities that your company requires, at a cost small organizations can afford. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 accommodates up to four TB of data and up to 15 concurrent users on each enclosure, offering the optimal answer for holding, sharing, and archiving your vital business data. Unlike ordinary NAS alternatives, the NSS3000 delivers the advanced backup, encryption, user validation, and service continuity your business requires.

The Cisco NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure handles any certified hard disk. It provides a range of features in a desktop-size footprint designed specifically for small organizations. The Small Business NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also offers your company the versatility to configure the system without any attached hard disks, to reconfigure it at any time, and to link several chassis with one another, providing a platform that can continually grow with your company.

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

• Intelligently copy vital data from each workstation and server in your business
• Provide centralized preservation and distribution of important files
• Run Continuous Data Protection to back up unattended every revision of every file saved by employees, allowing you to recover information easily
• Store and save digital video from your video security cameras

Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and comprehensive collaboration and communications solution that permits small companies to connect at-home workers, mobile workers and office workers in disparate sites to improve their ability to communicate with clients and colleagues. In Release 1.4, the aggressively priced solution offers improved wireless support including the first wireless desktop IP phone with Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G IP device, which allows businesses to grow cost-effectively by adding phones in places where traditional phone lines or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot conveniently be run.

Other new pieces of the Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 include:

• The Cisco 520 Secure Router product to help protect the company's infrastructure and give employees secure connectivity to the Internet and key business information any time, anywhere
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to permit partners to streamline the setup and installation of solutions created custom for individual companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Engineers Can Help Your Company to Take Advantage of Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco consultants and Cisco CCIE network engineers can help you to assess new Cisco products to understand their usefulness for your environment, set up Cisco security and communication platforms to improve the security and performance of your information network, and maintain Cisco devices both in person and online to keep your IT network running dependably. Progent's IT professionals can provide a variety of low-cost support services to improve the availability, protection, speed, and manageability of your company's IT system:

Immediate Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent is the leading source of convenient, immediate, and low-cost support from CCIE Certified consultants. CCIEs are elite network gurus who earn this prestigious accreditation only as a result of comprehensive testing by Cisco. CCIEs can resolve even the most complicated issues associated with network architecture, implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Progent’s CCIE consultants cooperate closely with Cisco engineers in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS software and developing workarounds or obtaining patches to correct problems. Progent can provide quick contact with a CCIE by phone so that you can get emergency help for complex network problems that are impacting worker efficiency but are beyond the scope of your usual IT service resources. Progent's CCIE consulting professionals can link to your environment using advanced off-site connectivity tools to deliver timely and cost-effective analysis and repair of urgent network difficulties.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone consultants can help you to configure, 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 discontinued VoIP devices to the newest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Unified CM, formerly branded CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to create a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can provide expertise with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP trunking, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony solutions for survivability. For more details concerning Progent's support for Cisco's IP voice and video technology, refer to Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Engineering Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), originally named CallManager, operates as the foundation of Cisco's communications and collaboration platform. Unified CM and Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) provide a modern IP-PBX solution by integrating with apps such as Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating an advanced customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM consultants can assist with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager support and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Cisco VoIP phones and video phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN calling, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, creating Cisco UCS server failover solutions for survivability, and integration with Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent’s experienced Cisco network security consulting professionals offer expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting services including architecture, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home businesses to modular enterprise-level products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of security, performance, and excellent availability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built platform, eliminating possible OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISA, CISM and CISSP-premier security consultants can provide a variety of budget-friendly network security Inventory packages and network security evaluation service packages designed to give businesses of all sizes a chance to get an objective look at the strength of their security profile. The packages vary from low-cost external security scan and internal network security scan packages for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end network security evaluation solution for institutions who need meet security standards required by government regulators or by vendors. For every security inventory or evaluation bundle, engineers with top security credentials evaluate and summarize scanned information and make suggestions for effective remediation.

Cisco SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure consultants and CUBE configuration experts can help you to plan, integrate, maintain, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE-connected SIP trunks. Progent offers affordable online or onsite expertise to help you to move smoothly to a productive unified communications ecosystem that delivers accelerated ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications experts can help you to configure connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms like Skype for Business Server or Lync Server for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a wide array of wireless devices and technologies and provides the same protection, expandability, and manageability you demand from your wired environment. Progent can assist you to achieve seamless integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless products from third-party vendors to offer your business the functionality you need plus the most protected, reliable, and cost-effective wireless networking system available. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security consultants can advise you about how to build protection into your wireless network and your company's operations.

Automated Management Solutions for Cisco-powered IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management engineers offer help with Cisco's network management utilities along with a range of specialized third-party products to build a comprehensive management automation strategy in order to keep your environment operating smoothly, conserve expensive resources, guard your information, revive rapidly from device breakdown or malicious assaults, and allow you to expand or reassign network resources sensibly and economically as your business grows.

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