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Cisco unveiled innovative products targeted especially for small business IT networks and engineered to deliver exceptional levels of protection and collaboration at a budget-friendly cost. Solutions announced by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 version of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam Blocker appliance is a dedicated antispam and antivirus security device that virtually eliminates email-based attacks as shipped. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop NAS appliances that provide security for important information and allow workers to exchange files effortlessly. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4, a complete sharing and communications system that seamlessly interconnects offices, employees, and clients however dispersed. The latest release incorporates the industry's first wireless small-footprint VoIP phone with Bluetooth wireless support. To read Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Announces Networking and Security Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker appliance protects small organizations by providing extensive protection against junk mail, viruses and phishing and other email-borne threats to guard your network and business information while improve efficiency. Because the appliance stops spam and viruses right out of the box and stays current automatically, it avoids the expense and time associated setup and continuing and management. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance increases the performance of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker is an end-to-end defense against email threats by including a physical appliance, intelligent software, ongoing updates, and technical assistance in a unified bundle.

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

• Accuracy: Assists to make sure that email-borne attacks and spam are caught and business email is delivered.
• Continuous automatic patches: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase services, an online library of email security threats, ensures that your Cisco Spam Blocker appliance installs the most current updates to safequard your corporate email.
• Simple setup and operation: User-friendly web-based setup tools allow you to install Cisco's Spam Blocker in almost any environment within minutes, delivering instant protection for your network.
• Streamlined administration: As soon as you installs the the Spam Blocker, you benefit from spam and virus protection with no additional hassle required of your IT staff.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The NSS2000 and NSS3000 offer the dependable protection and advanced data backup features that your company requires, at a price small organizations can afford. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 accommodates as much as to four TB of data and up to 15 concurrent clients per enclosure, offering the ideal answer for storing, sharing, and archiving your vital business data. Unlike entry-level NAS alternatives, the NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art backup, encryption, client validation, and service continuity your business requires.

The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure handles any approved disk drive. The enclosure offers a wealth of capabilities in a desktop form factor engineered specifically for small companies. The Small Business NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also gives your company the flexibility to deploy the product without any connected disk drives, to modify it easily, and to link multiple NAS chassis with one another, offering a platform that can continually grow with your company.

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

• Intelligently copy vital information from each PC and server in your organization
• Provide centralized storage and sharing of important information
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to copy automatically every version of every file saved by workers, permitting your company to recover data with ease
• Record and save video from your video surveillance cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System
The Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and comprehensive sharing and communications solution that permits small businesses to interconnect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and employees in separate locations to improve their ability to communicate with customers and colleagues. In the latest release, the aggressively priced system has improved wireless support including the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth, the SPA525G VoIP device, which enables companies to grow cost-effectively by adding handsets in places where conventional telephone lines or network wiring is missing or cannot easily be added.

Other innovative components of the Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 include:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router product to help guard the company's infrastructure and provide workers safe access to the Internet and key corporate data from inside or outside the office
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to permit stakeholders to simplify the configuration and deployment of solutions created specifically for individual businesses

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