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Cisco Introduces New Solutions for Small Companies
Cisco introduced new products targeted especially for small company networks and designed to provide a high degree of protection and connectivity at an affordable cost. Products announced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 release of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).
The Cisco Spam Blocker appliance is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter security product that essentially eliminates email-based attacks right out of the box. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint NAS appliances that provide security for valuable information and allow employees to share files effortlessly. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Version 1.4, a complete collaboration and communications system that seamlessly interconnects offices, workers, and customers anywhere. The latest release incorporates the first cordless small-footprint IP phone with Bluetooth wireless support. To see Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Introduces Security and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.
Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam and Virus Blocker safeguards small businesses by providing extensive defense against spam, viruses and phishing and other email attacks to secure your system and corporate information and simultaneously improve efficiency. Because the product stops spam right out of the box and stays current on its own, it avoids the cost and hassle with setup and continuing and management. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam Blocker increases the throughput of networks, application servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker represents a comprehensive defense against email-born threats by including a physical appliance, software, continuous patches, and product assistance in a single package.
Key benefits of the Spam Blocker appliance include:
- Accuracy: Helps to ensure that email threats and spam are intercepted while legitimate messages are allowed through.
- Ongoing self-installed patches: Constant communication with SenderBase services, a network database of email safety threats, makes sure that your Spam & Virus Blocker appliance incorporates the latest patches to safequard your business email.
- Easy installation and use: Easy-to-use browser-based setup wizards allow you to configure the Spam Blocker in practically any network in 15 minutes, providing immediate security for your business network.
- Streamlined management: From the moment your company installs the the Spam Blocker appliance, you benefit from spam and malware protection with no extra hassle demanded of your IT group.
NSS2000 and 3000
The Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 provide the dependable protection and advanced backup capabilities that your company requires, at a cost small businesses can handle. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 supports up to 4 terabytes of data and up to 15 simultaneous users on each chassis, provides the optimal solution for storing, sharing, and backing up your vital corporate data. Unlike less sophisticated NAS alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art archiving, cryptography, user validation, and service continuity your organization needs.
The Cisco NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis supports any approved disk drive. The chassis offers a range of capabilities in a desktop footprint engineered specifically for small businesses. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also provides you the versatility to deploy the system without any connected hard disk drives, to reconfigure the product easily, and to chain several Cisco NAS chassis together, offering a solution that can smoothly grow with your business.
Your company can use the Small Business NSS2000 or 3000 to:
- Intelligently back up vital information from each PC and application server on your network
- Provide unified preservation and sharing of key information
- Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy unattended every revision of each file archived by employees, allowing your business to restore data with ease
- Store and save video from your company's video security cameras
Smart Business Communications System
The Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete sharing and communications solution that enables small organizations to interconnect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and employees in separate locations to improve their ability to interact with clients and colleagues. In the new release, the affordable system has enhanced wireless capabilities such as the first wireless desktop IP handset with built-in Bluetooth, the SPA525G IP device, which allows companies to grow cost-effectively by deploying handsets in places where traditional phone wires or Ethernet cables are not present or cannot conveniently be added.
Other innovative pieces of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 are:
- Cisco's 520 Secure Router to help protect the company's infrastructure and provide employees secure access to the Internet and key corporate information wherever they are
- Cisco's Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to permit stakeholders to streamline the setup and deployment of solutions created specifically for certain businesses
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Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or certified CCNP to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that incorporates a broad range of wireless appliances and technologies and provides the same protection, expandability, and manageability you expect from your wired network. Progent can assist you to achieve transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless technology from other vendors to offer your business the functionality you need plus the most protected, dependable, and economical WLAN solution available. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can show you how to build protection into your WLAN and into your company's processes.
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Progent's Cisco-Certified network management engineers can provide assistance with Cisco's management technology alongside a variety of powerful third-party applications to create a comprehensive network management solution in order to keep your network operating smoothly, fully utilize limited resources, guard your information, revive rapidly from hardware breakdown or deliberate attacks, and enable you to expand or repurpose network resources sensibly and economically as your company grows.
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