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Cisco introduced innovative solutions targeted specifically for small company networks and designed to provide exceptional security and connectivity at an affordable price. Products unveiled by Cisco included the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest release of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a dedicated email security product that essentially eradicates email-based attacks as shipped. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint NAS devices that provide protection for valuable data and enable employees to exchange information easily. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4, a full collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly connects offices, employees, and customers however dispersed. Cisco's latest version incorporates the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth capabilities. To view Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Introduces Networking Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam Blocker appliance safeguards small businesses by offering powerful protection against spam, malware and other email threats to guard your network and corporate data while improve productivity. Because the device stops spam right out of the box and updates automatically, it avoids the cost and time with initial configuration and continuing and administration. By filtering out spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker increases the performance of network connections, servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker represents an end-to-end defense against email-born threats by including hardware, software, ongoing updates, and technical support in a unified package.

Key features of the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance include:

• Precision: Helps to make sure that email threats and junk mail are caught and business messages are accepted.
• Ongoing automatic patches: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase services, an online library of email security threats, ensures that your Spam & Virus Blocker installs the most current updates to protect your corporate email.
• Simple installation and use: Easy-to-use web-based setup tools permit you to install Cisco's Spam Blocker in almost any network in 15 minutes, delivering instant protection for your network.
• Effortless management: As soon as your company deploys the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you get junk mail and malware filtering with minimal extra effort demanded of your IT group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 provide the dependable security and comprehensive data backup features that your business requires, at a price small organizations can afford. The Small Business NSS3000 accommodates as much as to 4 terabytes of data and up to 15 concurrent users on each chassis, provides the ideal solution for storing, sharing, and backing up your mission-critical business data. As distinct from ordinary network-attached storage systems, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art backup, cryptography, user validation, and high uptime your organization requires.

The NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis handles any certified disk. The product provides a wealth of capabilities in a desktop-size form factor engineered specifically for small businesses. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also offers you the flexibility to configure the product without any connected disks, to modify it easily, and to link several chassis with one another, offering a platform that can continually grow with your business.

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

• Automatically copy vital information from every workstation and application server in your business
• Provide centralized preservation and distribution of key files
• Run Continuous Data Protection to copy automatically each revision of every file saved by workers, permitting you to recover files easily
• Record and save video from your surveillance system

Cisco SBCS
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is a simple and complete collaboration and communications system that allows small businesses to connect telecommuters, on-the-road workers and employees in separate sites to improve their options to collaborate with clients and colleagues. In Release 1.4, the affordable solution offers enhanced wireless support such as the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G wireless IP phone, which enables companies to grow cost-effectively by deploying phones in places where traditional phone lines or Ethernet wiring is not present or cannot conveniently be added.

Additional innovative pieces of the Cisco SBCS 1.4 version include:

• The Cisco 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business infrastructure and provide employees safe access to the Internet and key business data from inside or outside the office
• The Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to enable partners to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions created specifically for certain companies

How Progent's Certified Experts Can Assist Your Business to Deploy Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco certified consultants and Cisco CCIE networking experts can help you to evaluate the latest Cisco technologies to understand their usefulness for your environment, configure Cisco security and communication platforms to improve the security and efficiency of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco products both in person and online to keep your network running dependably. Progent's consultants offer a variety of cost-effective support services to improve the availability, security, efficiency, and maintainability of a small business information system:

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Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
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Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Collaboration
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Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that incorporates a broad range of wireless appliances and technologies and offers the identical security, scalability, and manageability you demand from your wired network. Progent can assist you to achieve seamless integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless products from other suppliers to give your company the functionality you require plus the most protected, reliable, and cost-effective wireless networking system available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can advise you about how to design security into your WLAN and your business processes.

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