New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Cisco announced innovative products intended specifically for small company networks and designed to provide high levels of protection and collaboration for an affordable price. Solutions unveiled by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter security product that essentially eliminates email-based attacks as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical desktop network-attached storage appliances that offer protection for valuable information and allow employees to share information effortlessly. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications solution that easily interconnects offices, workers, and clients anywhere. The current version features the debut of a cordless desktop Internet Protocol (IP) phone with Bluetooth capabilities. To view Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Introduces Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker appliance safeguards small organizations by offering powerful defense against junk mail, viruses and phishing as well as other email-borne attacks to guard your system and business information while at the same time improve productivity. Since the appliance blocks spam right out of the box and updates automatically, it eliminates the cost and time with setup and ongoing and management. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance helps the throughput of network connections, application servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker appliance is a comprehensive solution email-born attacks by including a physical appliance, software, ongoing patches, and technical support in a single bundle.

Key features of the Spam and Virus Blocker are:

• Accuracy: Assists to make sure that email-borne attacks and spam are caught while business email is accepted.
• Continuous self-installed updates: Constant communication with SenderBase security, an online database of email safety risks, makes sure that your Cisco Spam Blocker appliance installs the most current patches to protect your business email.
• Easy setup and use: Easy-to-use browser-based setup wizards allow you to configure Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in practically any network in minutes, delivering immediate security for your business network.
• Streamlined management: As soon as your company installs the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you benefit from junk mail and virus protection with minimal extra hassle required from your network support group.

NSS2000 and NSS3000
The NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems provide the robust security and comprehensive backup features that your business requires, at a price small organizations can handle. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 supports as much as to four TB of data and up to 15 concurrent clients on each chassis, provides the optimal answer for holding, sharing, and archiving your vital business information. As distinct from ordinary network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the advanced backup, encryption, user validation, and high uptime your business needs.

The Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis handles any approved drive. It offers a wealth of features in a desktop system engineered specifically for small businesses. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage enclosure also provides your company the versatility to deploy the system without any connected drives, to reconfigure the product at any time, and to chain several NAS chassis with one another, offering a solution that can smoothly expand with your company.

You can use the Cisco NSS2000 or 3000 to:

• Automatically copy important information from every PC and application server on your network
• Offer centralized storage and sharing of important information
• Run Continuous Data Protection to copy unattended each revision of each file saved by workers, allowing your company to restore files easily
• Record and save digital video from your video surveillance cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive sharing and communications solution that allows small organizations to connect telecommuters, on-the-road workers and office workers in disparate sites to enhance their options to communicate with clients and colleagues. In the new release, the affordable solution has improved wireless support including the first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth technology, the SPA525G IP device, which enables businesses to grow cost-effectively by adding phones in locations where traditional telephone lines or network wiring is not present or cannot easily be run.

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

• Cisco's 520 Secure Router product to help guard the company's network and give employees secure access to the Internet and key corporate data any time, anywhere
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to permit stakeholders to simplify the setup and deployment of solutions designed specifically for individual companies

How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Assist Your Business to Benefit from Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified consultants and CCIE accredited engineers can help your company to assess new Cisco technologies to understand their usefulness for your environment, set up Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the security and efficiency of your network, and maintain Cisco products both in person and online to keep your IT network operating smoothly. Progent's consulting experts offer a variety of affordable technical services to improve the dependability, protection, speed, and manageability of your information network:

Quick Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Engineers
Progent offers convenient, quick, and cost-effective assistance from registered CCIE engineers. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are highly-qualified networking experts who are awarded this prestigious classification only after exhaustive testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to tackle the most sophisticated problems encountered with network infrastructure architecture, configuration, repair, and maintenance. Progent's CCIE professionals work intimately with Cisco engineers in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS software and finding fixes or acquiring patches to resolve anomalies. Progent offers quick access to a CCIE by telephone so you can receive instant assistance for complex network problems that are impacting business productivity but are outside the scope of your local network service providers. Progent's CCIE support engineers can access your network via state-of-the-art remote support tools to provide fast and affordable diagnosis and remediation of urgent infrastructure problems.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can help your business to configure, maintain, and debug Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the newest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist you to integrate your IP phones with Unified CM, formerly known as CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express to create a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can provide expertise with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, installing ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and creating UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony systems for survivability. For more information concerning Progent's expertise for Cisco's IP voice and video solutions, refer to Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Engineering Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally branded CallManager, acts as the center of Cisco's collaboration portfolio. Cisco Unified CM and Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) offer an advanced IP-PBX by integrating with unified messaging applications such as Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for building a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can assist with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager support and debugging in areas such as integrating VoIP phones and video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN calling, installing ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating Cisco UCS server failover solutions for high availability, and integration with Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Support
Progent's experienced Cisco network security consultants provide high-level PIX and ASA Firewall engineering services covering 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, sophisticated attack protection, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home businesses to scalable gigabit products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of protection, performance, and high reliability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built platform, minimizing common OS-specific security holes.

Network Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-certified security engineers can deliver a variety of cost-effective network security Inventory service packages and network security evaluation service bundles designed to give organizations of any size a chance to get a professional look at the effectiveness of their protection profile. The packages vary from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end security assessment package for corporations who need comply with security standards required by state agencies or by vendors. For each security assessment bundle, consultants with top security accreditations evaluate and report on collected data and provide suggestions for effective improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Consulting
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP infrastructure experts and CUBE integration consultants can assist organizations of any size to plan, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers affordable remote or on-premises expertise to help you to move smoothly to a modern communications environment that offers fast return on investment. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration experts can help you to configure interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business Server or Lync for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or certified 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 same protection, expandability, and ease of management you demand from a wired environment. Progent can assist you to implement seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless products from other suppliers to offer your business the functionality you require as well as the most secure, dependable, and economical WLAN system available. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security consultants can advise you about how to design protection into your wireless network and into your company's operations.

Automated Administration Tools for Cisco-powered IT Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network engineers offer assistance with Cisco's management tools alongside a selection of powerful third-party products to build a comprehensive management automation strategy in order to keep your network operating reliably, conserve expensive resources, protect your data, recover rapidly from hardware breakdown or deliberate assaults, and allow you to expand or repurpose network components intelligently and economically as your company evolves.

To learn additional information concerning Progent's consulting and support services for Cisco connectivity and communications products, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.