Cisco Premier Certified Help Cisco announced new products targeted especially for small company IT networks and designed to provide exceptional security and collaboration at an affordable cost. Products unveiled by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest release of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam Blocker appliance is a dedicated email security device that essentially eliminates email attacks with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint NAS appliances that provide protection for valuable data and allow employees to share files easily. Cisco's SBCS Release 1.4, a complete sharing and communications solution that easily connects offices, workers, and clients however dispersed. Cisco's latest release features the industry's debut of a wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth capabilities. To read Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Introduces Networking Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Consulting and Support The Spam Blocker appliance safeguards small companies by offering extensive defense against junk mail, malware as well as other email threats to secure your network and corporate data while improve efficiency. Because the appliance stops spam and viruses with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it avoids the expense and time associated setup and ongoing and management. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance helps the performance of networks, servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance represents an end-to-end solution email threats by featuring hardware, intelligent software, continuous updates, and product assistance in a single package.

Notable benefits of the Spam Blocker are:

  • Precision: Assists to ensure that email threats and spam are intercepted while business email is delivered.
  • Continuous automatic updates: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase services, an online database of email safety threats, makes sure that the Cisco Spam Blocker installs the most current patches to safequard your corporate email.
  • Easy installation and use: User-friendly browser-based setup tools allow you to configure Cisco's Spam Blocker in nearly any network in minutes, delivering immediate security for your company.
  • Streamlined administration: As soon as you installs the the Spam Blocker, you get junk mail and virus protection with no extra effort required from your IT staff.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems Support Services The NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems offer the robust protection and advanced backup features that your company requires, at a cost small companies can handle. The NSS3000 accommodates as much as to four TB of data and as many as 15 simultaneous clients per enclosure, offering the optimal answer for holding, sharing, and archiving your mission-critical business information. As distinct from less sophisticated NAS alternatives, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art archiving, cryptography, user authentication, and high availability your organization needs.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis handles any approved disk. The product offers a wealth of features in a desktop-size form factor engineered specifically for small companies. The NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also provides you the flexibility to deploy the system without any attached drives, to reconfigure it at any time, and to chain multiple Cisco NAS chassis together, providing a platform that can continually expand with your company.

Your business can utilize the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or 3000 to:

  • Automatically copy vital information from every PC and server in your business
  • Offer unified storage and distribution of key information
  • Run Continuous Data Protection to back up unattended every version of every file archived by workers, permitting your business to recover data with ease
  • Record and save digital video from your surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Support Services The Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive collaboration and communications system that allows small companies to connect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and office workers in disparate locations to improve their options to interact with clients and teammates. In the latest release, the aggressively priced system offers enhanced wireless features including the first wireless desktop IP phone with Bluetooth, the SPA525G wireless IP phone, which enables companies to grow easily by installing phones in locations where traditional phone wires or network wiring is not present or cannot conveniently be run.

Other new pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 are:

  • The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business infrastructure and give employees safe connectivity to the Internet and important corporate data remotely or locally
  • The Cisco Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to permit stakeholders to simplify the setup and installation of solutions designed specifically for certain companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Experts Can Help You to Benefit from Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco-qualified consultants and CCIE accredited engineers can assist your company to evaluate new Cisco technologies to determine their appropriateness for your IT system, configure Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the protection and efficiency of your network, and provide tech support for Cisco devices both in person and online to keep your IT network operating dependably. Progent's consulting experts can provide a variety of cost-effective support services to improve the availability, security, performance, and maintainability of a small business IT network:

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Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist you to configure, manage, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the latest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Unified CM, previously branded CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to create a modern IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver expertise with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP gateways, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and creating Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) solutions for survivability. For more details concerning Progent's engineering help for Cisco's IP voice and video solutions, refer to Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Consulting Support.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), formerly named CallManager, acts as the heart of Cisco's communications and collaboration portfolio. CUCM and Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) provide a location-independent IP-PBX solution by integrating closely with apps such as Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Contact Center Express (Unified CCX or CCX) for creating an advanced customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified Cisco Unified CM consultants can assist with any facet of Unified Communications Manager setup and debugging in areas that include integrating Voice over IP phones and desktop video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN support, deploying Cisco ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating UCS server clustering systems for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server.

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Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals offer expert PIX and ASA Firewall engineering support including infrastructure design, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer advanced security, high throughput, and excellent availability for network environments of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-certified security consultants can deliver a range of budget-friendly security Inventory bundles and security evaluation service packages created to give businesses of any size a chance to receive an independent opinion about the strength of their security environment. These packages range from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal network security scan packages for small companies up to a high-level network security evaluation solution for enterprises who have to comply with security levels required by state agencies or by vendors. For every security inventory or evaluation bundle, consultants with top security accreditations analyze and report on scanned data and make suggestions for efficient remediation.

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Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can provide a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that incorporates a wide range of wireless products and technologies and offers the identical protection, expandability, and ease of management you expect from your wired environment. Progent can assist you to implement seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless technology from third-party vendors to give your business the features you need as well as the most secure, dependable, and economical WLAN solution available. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security specialists can advise you about how to build protection into your wireless network and your business operations.

Automated Administration Solutions for Cisco-based Small Business Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network engineers can provide help with Cisco's network management tools alongside a selection of specialized third-party products to create a comprehensive management automation strategy in order to keep your network running smoothly, fully utilize limited resources, protect your data, revive rapidly from device breakdown or malicious attacks, and enable you to expand or repurpose network resources sensibly and affordably as your company evolves.

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