New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco announced innovative solutions intended especially for small business IT networks and engineered to provide exceptional levels of protection and collaboration at a budget-friendly cost. Solutions introduced by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest version of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam Blocker appliance is a dedicated spam, virus, and phishing filter security product that virtually eradicates email-based threats as shipped. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical desktop network-attached storage appliances that provide protection for valuable data and enable workers to exchange information easily. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications solution that easily connects sites, employees, and customers anywhere. The latest version features the industry's first wireless small-footprint Internet Protocol (IP) phone with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To view Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Announces Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance safeguards small businesses by providing powerful protection against spam, viruses and other email-borne threats to guard your network and business data while improve productivity. Since the appliance stops spam and viruses right out of the box and stays current on its own, it eliminates the expense and hassle associated initial configuration and ongoing and administration. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker increases the performance of network connections, servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker is an end-to-end solution email-born threats by featuring a physical appliance, software, continuous patches, and product assistance in a single package.

Key features of Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance include:

• Efficiency: Assists to make sure that email-borne threats and junk mail are intercepted and business messages are delivered.
• Ongoing automatic updates: Constant interaction with SenderBase security, an online library of email safety threats, makes sure that the Spam & Virus Blocker installs the most current updates to safequard your business email.
• Easy installation and use: Easy-to-use browser-based setup tools allow you to install Cisco's Spam Blocker in practically any network in 15 minutes, delivering instant security for your business network.
• Effortless management: As soon as you deploys the the Spam and Virus Blocker, you get spam and virus filtering with minimal extra effort demanded of your network support group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 offer the dependable protection and comprehensive data backup capabilities that your company needs, at a cost small businesses can afford. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 supports up to 4 TB of data and up to 15 simultaneous users on each chassis, offering the ideal solution for storing, sharing, and archiving your vital corporate information. Unlike ordinary NAS alternatives, the NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art backup, cryptography, user validation, and high uptime your business needs.

The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure handles any certified disk drive. The enclosure offers a wealth of features in a desktop-size footprint designed for small organizations. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage Chassis also offers your business the versatility to configure the product without any connected hard disk drives, to reconfigure the product at any time, and to link several Cisco NAS chassis with one another, offering a solution that can smoothly grow with your company.

You can utilize the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or 3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Intelligently copy vital data from every workstation and server on your network
• Offer unified preservation and distribution of key files
• Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy automatically each revision of each file archived by workers, permitting you to restore information quickly
• Store and save video from your company's video security system

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete collaboration and communications system that enables small companies to connect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and employees in separate locations to enhance their options to collaborate with customers and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable solution offers enhanced wireless features including the industry's first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth technology, the SPA525G VoIP phone, which allows businesses to expand cost-effectively by installing handsets in places where conventional phone wires or Ethernet wiring is not present or cannot easily be added.

Additional new pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version include:

• The Cisco 520 Secure Router product to help guard the company's network and provide workers safe connectivity to the Internet and key business information from inside or outside the office
• The Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to enable stakeholders to streamline the configuration and installation of solutions designed specifically for individual businesses

How Progent's Certified Experts Can Help Your Company to Deploy Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified support professionals and CCIE networking experts can help you to evaluate new Cisco technologies to understand their appropriateness for your environment, configure Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the protection and efficiency of your network, and provide tech support for Cisco products both in person and remotely to keep your IT network operating smoothly. Progent's consulting experts can provide a range of affordable services to improve the dependability, protection, efficiency, and manageability of your company's information network:

Quick Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Engineers
Progent is the leading source of easy, immediate, and low-cost help from registered CCIE engineers. CCIEs are highly-qualified network gurus who are awarded this prestigious classification only through exhaustive testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to resolve the most complicated problems surrounding network design, deployment, troubleshooting, and support. Progent’s CCIE experts cooperate intimately with Cisco engineers in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS software and devising workarounds or acquiring software updates to correct problems. Progent can provide fast contact with a CCIE by phone so you can get urgent help for tough network troubles that are impacting worker productivity but are outside the scope of your local network support providers. Progent's CCIE consulting professionals can link to your network using advanced remote connectivity tools to provide fast and cost-effective diagnosis and repair of urgent network difficulties.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist you to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy VoIP products to the latest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly branded CallManager, or with Unified CM Express (CME) to create a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can provide support with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving QoS, setting up SIP gateways, deploying ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and designing UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony solutions for survivability. For additional details on Progent's offerings for Cisco's collaboration solutions, visit Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Consulting Support.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), formerly known as CallManager, is the foundation of Cisco's communications and collaboration platform. Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified CM Express offer a location-independent IP-PBX solution by integrating with apps such as Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Connection 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 consultants can help with any aspect of CUCM support and debugging in areas that include integrating Cisco VoIP phones and desktop video IP phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP connections and PSTN support, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE networking support, designing Cisco UCS server clustering systems for high availability, and integration with Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consultants offer high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support including infrastructure design, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and secure access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home businesses to modular enterprise-grade products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of security, high throughput, and high reliability for network environments of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built platform, eliminating possible OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISA, CISM and CISSP-certified security consultants can deliver a variety of cost-effective security Inventory bundles and security assessment service bundles created to offer businesses of all sizes an opportunity to receive an objective look at the strength of their security profile. These packages vary from low-cost external security scan and internal security scan packages for small companies up to a high-end security assessment package for institutions who have to meet security standards required by state regulators or by vendors. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, engineers with high-level security accreditations evaluate and summarize collected data and make recommendations for effective improvements.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk consultants and Cisco CUBE configuration experts can assist organizations of any size to design, integrate, maintain, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers cost-effective remote or on-premises support to help businesses to migrate efficiently to a modern unified communications environment that delivers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration consultants can assist you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications such as Skype for Business Server or Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional (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 provides the identical security, scalability, and ease of management you expect from a wired environment. Progent can assist you to implement seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless products from third-party suppliers to offer your company the features you require plus the most protected, dependable, and economical wireless networking solution possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can advise you about how to build protection into your wireless network and into your business processes.

Simplified Management Solutions for Cisco-based Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management consultants offer help with Cisco's management technology along with a selection of powerful third-party products to build a comprehensive network management strategy in order to keep your network operating smoothly, fully utilize limited resources, protect your data, recover quickly from device failure or malicious assaults, and enable you to add or repurpose network resources sensibly and affordably as your company evolves.

For more information about Progent's support for Cisco networking and communications products, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.