New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Cisco announced new solutions targeted specifically for small business networks and engineered to deliver high levels of protection and connectivity for a budget-friendly cost. Solutions announced by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 release of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a dedicated email security device that virtually eradicates email attacks right out of the box. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage (NAS) appliances that provide protection for important information and enable workers to exchange files effortlessly. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly connects sites, employees, and clients however dispersed. Cisco's latest release features the first wireless small-footprint IP handset with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To see Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Unveils Security and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker safeguards small organizations by providing powerful protection against spam, viruses and phishing and other email-borne attacks to secure your network and corporate information and simultaneously improve efficiency. Since the device blocks spam and viruses right out of the box and updates automatically, it eliminates the expense and time with initial configuration and ongoing and management. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker increases the throughput of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker appliance is an end-to-end defense against email threats by featuring a physical appliance, intelligent software, ongoing updates, and technical assistance in a single package.

Key benefits of the Spam and Virus Blocker include:

• Accuracy: Helps to make sure that email attacks and junk mail are intercepted and business messages are allowed through.
• Continuous self-installed updates: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase services, an online library of email security threats, makes sure that the Cisco Spam Blocker appliance installs the latest patches to safequard your business email.
• Easy setup and operation: User-friendly web-based installation tools allow you to configure the Spam and Virus Blocker in almost any environment in 15 minutes, providing immediate security for your network.
• Streamlined administration: From the moment you deploys the Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and virus protection with no additional hassle required of your network support group.

Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 offer the robust protection and advanced data backup features that your company needs, at a price small organizations can afford. The Cisco NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 terabytes of data and up to 15 concurrent users per chassis, provides the optimal solution for holding, sharing, and archiving your vital corporate data. As distinct from less sophisticated network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the Cisco NSS3000 provides the advanced archiving, cryptography, user authentication, and service continuity your organization needs.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure handles any certified disk. The product provides a wealth of features in a desktop-size form factor designed for small businesses. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also gives your company the versatility to deploy the system without any connected disks, to modify the product easily, and to link multiple Cisco NAS chassis together, providing a platform that can continually grow with your business.

You can use the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or 3000 to:

• Automatically back up vital information from each desktop and server on your network
• Provide centralized storage and distribution of key files
• Run Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically every revision of each file saved by employees, allowing your business to recover data easily
• Store and archive video from your video security system

Smart Business Communications System
The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 is a simple and complete collaboration and communications system that permits small companies to connect telecommuters, mobile workers and office workers in separate locations to enhance their ability to communicate with clients and teammates. In the latest release, the aggressively priced system offers improved wireless support such as the first wireless desktop VoIP handset with built-in Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G wireless IP phone, which enables companies to expand easily by installing handsets in places where conventional phone wires or Ethernet cables are not present or cannot easily be added.

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

• Cisco's 520 Secure Router to help protect the company's infrastructure and give employees safe access to the Internet and key business information wherever they are
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to enable partners to simplify the configuration and installation of solutions designed specifically for individual businesses

How Progent's Cisco-certified Experts Can Assist Your Company to Take Advantage of Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified support professionals and CCIE accredited network engineers can help your company to evaluate new Cisco technologies to understand their business value for your IT system, install Cisco solutions to improve the security and efficiency of your information network, and provide tech support for Cisco products both onsite and remotely to keep your IT network running smoothly. Progent's IT professionals offer a range of low-cost technical services to enhance the availability, safety, speed, and manageability of your company's information system:

Quick Online Access to Cisco CCIE Network Engineers
Progent offers easy, immediate, and economical assistance from CCIE Certified engineers. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are recognized network gurus who are awarded this prestigious accreditation only through thorough testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to resolve the most complex issues encountered with network architecture, integration, repair, and support. Progent’s CCIE experts cooperate closely with Cisco engineers in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS platform and devising workarounds or acquiring patches to correct problems. Progent gives you fast contact with a CCIE by phone so that you can get urgent help for tough network troubles that are affecting business productivity but are outside the expertise of your local IT support providers. Progent's CCIE consulting experts can access your network using state-of-the-art remote support technology to deliver timely and cost-effective diagnosis and repair of urgent infrastructure problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to configure, manage, and debug Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the newest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist you to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously known as CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to build a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP gateways, installing ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and creating UCS server clustering and Cisco SRST solutions for survivability. For additional details concerning Progent's technical support for Cisco's IP voice and video technology, refer to Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Consulting Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously branded CallManager, functions as the core of Cisco's collaboration solution. Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) provide an advanced IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with applications like Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for creating an advanced customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM and CallManager experts can assist with any aspect of Unified CM support and debugging in areas such as integrating Cisco VoIP phones and desktop video IP phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN support, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, designing UCS server failover solutions for survivability, and integration with Exchange Server and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting Expertise
Progent’s experienced Cisco network security consultants provide expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall engineering support including architecture, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and secure access services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, performance, and high reliability for network environments of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built platform, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-certified security engineers can provide a range of budget-friendly security Inventory service packages and network security evaluation bundles created to give organizations of all sizes a chance to get a professional opinion about the quality of their security environment. The packages vary from low-cost external network security scan and internal security scan packages for small and midsize companies up to a high-level security evaluation package for institutions who need meet security levels required by state agencies or by customers. For every security assessment package, engineers with high-level security accreditations analyze and report on scanned data and provide recommendations for effective remediation.

SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure experts and Cisco CUBE configuration experts can help organizations of any size to design, integrate, maintain, debug and enhance Cisco's SIP connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE-based SIP trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective online or onsite expertise to help companies to migrate efficiently to an advanced communications ecosystem that offers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to configure interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms such as Skype for Business or Lync Server for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that incorporates a wide array of wireless appliances and technologies and provides the identical protection, scalability, and manageability you expect from your wired network. Progent can help you to achieve seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless devices and software from other vendors to offer your company the functionality you need as well as the most protected, reliable, and economical wireless networking system possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can show you how to design security into your WLAN and into your business operations.

Simplified Management Solutions for Cisco-powered Small Business Networks
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management engineers can provide help with Cisco's network management tools alongside a range of specialized third-party products to create a comprehensive network management solution to keep your environment operating smoothly, fully utilize expensive resources, guard your data, revive rapidly from hardware failure or deliberate attacks, and enable you to expand or reassign network resources sensibly and economically as your company evolves.

To find out more information concerning Progent's consulting and support services for Cisco networking and communications solutions, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.