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Cisco unveiled new solutions intended specifically for small business networks and designed to deliver outstanding protection and connectivity at a budget-friendly cost. Solutions introduced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a dedicated email security device that virtually eliminates email attacks right out of the box. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint NAS devices that offer protection for valuable information and allow employees to access shared files easily. The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications system that seamlessly interconnects sites, employees, and clients however dispersed. The latest release features the industry's debut of a wireless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To read Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Unveils Networking and Security Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance safeguards small organizations by offering extensive defense against spam, malware and other email attacks to guard your network and business information and simultaneously improve productivity. Since the device stops spam with minimal set up and updates automatically, it avoids the expense and time with initial configuration and ongoing and management. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker helps the throughput of network connections, servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker represents an end-to-end defense against email attacks by featuring a physical appliance, software, continuous patches, and product assistance in a unified bundle.

Key features of Cisco's Spam Blocker are:

• Accuracy: Assists to make sure that email-borne threats and spam are caught and legitimate messages are delivered.
• Ongoing self-installed patches: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase services, a network database of email security risks, makes sure that your Spam & Virus Blocker incorporates the most current updates to protect your business email.
• Simple setup and use: User-friendly browser-based installation wizards allow you to install the Spam Blocker appliance in practically any environment in minutes, delivering instant security for your network.
• Streamlined management: From the moment you installs the Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and malware filtering with minimal extra effort demanded of your network support staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the dependable protection and comprehensive data backup features that your company requires, at a cost small businesses can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 supports as much as to 4 terabytes of data and as many as 15 concurrent clients on each enclosure, provides the optimal solution for storing, accessing, and archiving your mission-critical business information. Unlike less sophisticated network-attached storage (NAS) alternatives, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art archiving, encryption, client authentication, and high availability your business requires.

The Small Business NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis supports any certified drive. The enclosure offers a range of features in a desktop-size footprint engineered for small organizations. The Small Business NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also provides you the versatility to deploy the system without any attached hard drives, to modify the product at any time, and to link several chassis with one another, providing a solution that can smoothly expand with your business.

Your business can utilize the Cisco NSS2000 or 3000 to:

• Intelligently copy vital data from every desktop and server in your organization
• Provide centralized preservation and distribution of important information
• Run Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically every version of each file archived by employees, permitting your business to restore data quickly
• Record and archive digital video from your surveillance system

Cisco SBCS
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is a simple and complete sharing and communications system that permits small businesses to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and employees in separate locations to improve their options to interact with clients and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable system has improved wireless capabilities including the industry's first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth technology, the SPA525G VoIP device, which allows businesses to expand cost-effectively by installing handsets in places where traditional telephone lines or network wiring is not present or cannot easily be added.

Additional new pieces of the Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 are:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router product to help protect the company's infrastructure and give employees safe connectivity to the Internet and key business data from either side of the firewall
• The Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to enable stakeholders to streamline the setup and installation of solutions designed custom for individual businesses

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