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Cisco introduced innovative solutions targeted specifically for small business networks and engineered to provide exceptional levels of protection and collaboration at an affordable cost. Solutions unveiled by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest version of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a purpose-built antispam and antivirus security device that essentially eradicates email-based attacks with no set up. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage appliances that provide security for important information and allow employees to share files easily. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4, a full collaboration and communications solution that easily interconnects sites, employees, and customers anywhere. The latest release incorporates the debut of a cordless desktop VoIP handset with Bluetooth support. To read Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Introduces Networking and Security Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker protects small organizations by offering extensive protection against spam, viruses and phishing and other email-borne threats to guard your network and business data while improve productivity. Since the product stops spam with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it does away with the cost and time with initial configuration and continuing and management. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker increases the performance of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker represents an end-to-end solution email attacks by including hardware, intelligent software, continuous patches, and technical assistance in a single bundle.

Key benefits of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance are:

• Efficiency: Assists to ensure that email attacks and spam are intercepted while legitimate messages are accepted.
• Continuous self-installed updates: Constant communication with SenderBase security, an online database of email safety threats, ensures that your Spam & Virus Blocker installs the latest patches to guard your corporate email.
• Simple setup and use: User-friendly browser-based setup wizards allow you to configure the Spam Blocker appliance in practically any network in 15 minutes, delivering instant security for your business.
• Effortless administration: From the moment your company deploys the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and malware protection with no additional hassle demanded of your IT staff.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 offer the robust protection and comprehensive data backup features that your company needs, at a cost small organizations can handle. The Cisco NSS3000 supports up to four terabytes of data and up to 15 simultaneous users on each chassis, offering the ideal answer for holding, accessing, and backing up your mission-critical business information. As distinct from less advanced NAS alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art archiving, encryption, client authentication, and high availability your company requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure supports any certified disk. The enclosure offers a range of capabilities in a desktop footprint engineered specifically for small businesses. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage enclosure also gives your business the flexibility to deploy the product without any attached hard drives, to reconfigure it easily, and to chain several NAS chassis with one another, offering a platform that can smoothly expand with your company.

Your company can utilize the Cisco NSS2000 or 3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Intelligently copy important information from every PC and application server in your business
• Provide unified preservation and sharing of important information
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically each revision of each file saved by employees, permitting you to recover information easily
• Record and archive digital video from your company's video surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and comprehensive sharing and communications system that permits small organizations to interconnect at-home workers, mobile workers and employees in disparate sites to enhance their options to communicate with clients and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable system has improved wireless features including the first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G wireless IP phone, which enables businesses to grow easily by adding handsets in locations where traditional telephone lines or Ethernet cables are not present or cannot easily be run.

Other new components of the Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version include:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router product to help guard a small business infrastructure and provide workers safe connectivity to the Internet and important business data from inside or outside the office
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to enable partners to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions designed custom for individual businesses

How Progent's Cisco-certified Engineers Can Help Your Company to Deploy Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified support professionals and CCIE network engineers can help you to evaluate the latest Cisco technologies to determine their business value for your environment, integrate Cisco security and communication platforms to improve the protection and efficiency of your network, and maintain Cisco devices both onsite and online to keep your IT network running smoothly. Progent's consulting experts can provide a range of affordable services to enhance the availability, protection, performance, and maintainability of your company's information system:

Quick Access to Cisco CCIE Engineers
Progent can provide easy, quick, and cost-effective help from CCIE consultants. CCIEs are recognized network gurus who are awarded this prestigious classification only through comprehensive examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle the most sophisticated problems surrounding network infrastructure architecture, deployment, repair, and service. Progent’s CCIE professionals cooperate intimately with Cisco engineers in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS platform and developing fixes or acquiring software updates to resolve problems. Progent your company immediate access to a CCIE by telephone so that you can receive instant assistance for tough network troubles that are affecting business efficiency but are beyond the scope of your ordinary network service providers. Progent's CCIE consulting experts can link to your network via advanced remote connectivity technology to deliver timely and affordable diagnosis and remediation of critical network problems.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone consultants can help your business to integrate, manage, and debug Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued Voice over IP devices to the newest media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, formerly named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express (CME) to build a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide support with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP gateways, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and creating UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) solutions for survivability. For additional information about Progent's technical support for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, refer to Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Professional Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly branded CallManager, is the core of Cisco's collaboration solution. CUCM and Unified CM Express (CME) provide an advanced IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with unified messaging apps that include Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Connection for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for building an advanced customer contact solution. Progent's CCIE-certified Cisco Unified CM consultants can help with any facet of CUCM support and debugging in areas that include integrating VoIP phones and desktop video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN support, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, designing Cisco UCS server clustering solutions for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Support
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consultants offer high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support including architecture, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home offices to modular enterprise-grade products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of security, high throughput, and high reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built platform, eliminating possible OS-specific security holes.

Network Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-certified security engineers can deliver a range of cost-effective security Inventory service packages and network security assessment packages created to offer businesses of all sizes a chance to receive a professional look at the strength of their protection profile. The packages vary from ultra-affordable external network security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize companies up to a high-end security assessment package for corporations who have to meet security levels required by state agencies or by vendors. For each security assessment bundle, consultants with top security credentials evaluate and report on scanned data and make suggestions for effective improvements.

Cisco SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk consultants and CUBE configuration experts can help organizations of any size to design, integrate, maintain, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective online or onsite support to assist businesses to migrate smoothly to a modern communications network that offers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to set up connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media applications such as Skype for Business Server or Lync for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a wide range of wireless products and technologies and offers the identical protection, scalability, and ease of management you demand from a wired network. Progent can assist you to implement transparent integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless devices and software from third-party suppliers to give your business the functionality you require as well as the most protected, dependable, and economical WLAN solution possible. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security consultants can advise you about how to build security into your wireless network and your business operations.

Simplified Administration Tools for Cisco-powered Small Business Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management consultants can provide help with Cisco's network management tools along with a selection of powerful third-party products to create a complete management automation strategy in order to keep your network operating smoothly, conserve expensive resources, guard your data, revive quickly from device breakdown or deliberate attacks, and allow you to expand or reassign valuable components intelligently and economically as your business grows.

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