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Cisco introduced new products intended especially for small company networks and engineered to provide exceptional security and connectivity at a budget-friendly cost. Solutions introduced by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 release of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a dedicated spam, virus, and phishing filter security product that virtually eradicates email-based attacks as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop network-attached storage appliances that provide protection for valuable information and enable workers to exchange files easily. The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4, a complete sharing and communications system that easily interconnects offices, workers, and customers however dispersed. Cisco's current release features the first cordless desktop Internet Protocol (IP) phone with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To see Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Introduces Networking Solutions for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker
The Spam Blocker safeguards small companies by providing extensive protection against junk mail, viruses and other email attacks to guard your network and business data while at the same time enhance productivity. Since the device blocks spam and viruses right out of the box and updates automatically, it eliminates the expense and hassle with setup and ongoing and administration. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance helps the performance of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is an end-to-end defense against email threats by including hardware, software, continuous updates, and product assistance in a unified package.

Key features of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker include:

• Precision: Assists to make sure that email-borne threats and spam are caught and business email is allowed through.
• Continuous automatic patches: Constant communication with SenderBase services, an online database of email safety threats, makes sure that your Spam & Virus Blocker appliance installs the most current updates to guard your corporate email.
• Simple installation and use: Easy-to-use browser-based installation wizards permit you to install Cisco's Spam Blocker in almost any environment in 15 minutes, providing immediate security for your company.
• Streamlined management: As soon as you deploys the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you get junk mail and malware protection with minimal extra hassle required of your network support staff.

Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the robust protection and advanced data backup features that your business needs, at a price small organizations can handle. The NSS3000 accommodates as much as to 4 TB of data and up to 15 simultaneous users per enclosure, offering the ideal answer for holding, accessing, and archiving your vital business data. Unlike ordinary network-attached storage alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art archiving, encryption, client authentication, and high uptime your organization needs.

The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis handles any approved disk drive. The chassis offers a wealth of features in a desktop-size system designed specifically for small businesses. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also offers you the flexibility to deploy the product without any connected disks, to reconfigure the product easily, and to chain multiple Cisco NAS chassis together, providing a solution that can smoothly expand with your business.

Your business can use the NSS2000 or 3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Intelligently back up vital data from each workstation and application server in your business
• Provide unified storage and sharing of key files
• Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to back up automatically every revision of every file archived by employees, permitting you to restore files with ease
• Store and archive digital video from your video security cameras

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is a simple and complete sharing and communications system that enables small organizations to interconnect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and office workers in disparate sites to improve their options to interact with clients and teammates. In the latest release, the affordable system offers improved wireless capabilities such as the industry's first wireless desktop IP handset with built-in Bluetooth, the SPA525G IP phone, which allows companies to expand easily by installing handsets in places where conventional telephone wires or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot conveniently be run.

Additional innovative pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 are:

• Cisco's 520 Secure Router product to help protect a small business infrastructure and give workers safe connectivity to the Internet and key business data from inside or outside the office
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to enable stakeholders to simplify the configuration and deployment of solutions designed custom for certain companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Experts Can Help You to Deploy Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco certified support professionals and Cisco CCIE networking experts can assist you to assess new Cisco technologies to determine their appropriateness for your environment, install Cisco solutions to improve the security and performance of your network, and provide tech support for Cisco products both in person and remotely to keep your IT network running dependably. Progent's IT professionals offer a variety of cost-effective support services to enhance the reliability, protection, efficiency, and maintainability of your company's IT system:

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Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone consultants can help you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued Voice over IP devices to the latest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist you to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, originally known as CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to create a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver expertise with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP trunking, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco SRST solutions for survivability. For additional details about Progent's support for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, read Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Consulting Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), previously named CallManager, is the heart of Cisco's collaboration platform. Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express offer a borderless IP-PBX by integrating closely with apps like Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Unity Express for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for creating a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM and CallManager consultants can help with any facet of CUCM setup and troubleshooting in areas that include integrating Cisco VoIP phones and desktop video phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN support, deploying Cisco ISR routers with CUBE support, creating Cisco UCS server clustering solutions for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server.

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Network Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
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Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk experts and CUBE configuration consultants can assist you to design, deploy, maintain, debug and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE-connected SIP trunks. Progent offers cost-effective online or onsite support to assist companies to migrate smoothly to a modern unified communications ecosystem that delivers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can help you to configure interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business or Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can provide 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 products and technologies and provides the same protection, expandability, and manageability you expect from your wired network. Progent can assist you to implement seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless products from third-party suppliers to offer your company the functionality you need as well as the most protected, 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 into your business operations.

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Progent's Cisco-Premier network consultants can provide assistance with Cisco's management technology along with a range of powerful third-party products to create a comprehensive network management strategy in order to keep your environment operating smoothly, fully utilize limited resources, protect your data, revive rapidly from device failure or deliberate attacks, and allow you to expand or reassign network resources intelligently and affordably as your company grows.

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