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Cisco unveiled innovative products intended specifically for small business networks and engineered to deliver high levels of security and connectivity for a budget-friendly price. Products announced by Cisco included the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 release of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a purpose-built email security device that virtually eradicates email threats with no set up. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop network-attached storage devices that offer protection for important information and allow employees to exchange files easily. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4, a complete sharing and communications system that seamlessly interconnects offices, workers, and customers anywhere. Cisco's latest release incorporates the debut of a wireless desktop Internet Protocol (IP) phone with Bluetooth capabilities. To see Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Announces Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker
The Spam Blocker appliance safeguards small businesses by offering powerful protection against spam, viruses and other email attacks to secure your system and corporate information and simultaneously enhance efficiency. Because the device blocks spam and viruses right out of the box and updates automatically, it eliminates the cost and hassle required for setup and ongoing and management. By eliminating unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the throughput of networks, servers, and computers. The Spam Blocker represents a comprehensive solution email attacks by including a physical appliance, intelligent software, ongoing patches, and technical support in a single bundle.

Notable features of Cisco's Spam Blocker include:

• Accuracy: Assists to make sure that email attacks and spam are intercepted while business email is allowed through.
• Ongoing self-installed updates: Non-stop communication with SenderBase security, an online database of email safety threats, ensures that your Spam & Virus Blocker installs the latest patches to safequard your corporate email.
• Simple installation and use: User-friendly web-based setup tools permit you to configure Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance in nearly any network within minutes, providing immediate security for your company.
• Effortless administration: As soon as your company deploys the Cisco's Spam Blocker, you get spam and malware filtering with minimal extra hassle demanded from your IT staff.

Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000
The NSS2000 and NSS3000 offer the dependable protection and comprehensive data backup capabilities that your company needs, at a price small businesses can handle. The NSS3000 accommodates as much as to four TB of data and as many as 15 concurrent users per enclosure, provides the optimal answer for holding, accessing, and archiving your mission-critical corporate information. As distinct from less sophisticated network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the NSS3000 delivers the state-of-the-art archiving, encryption, client validation, and service continuity your business needs.

The NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis handles any certified hard disk drive. The enclosure provides a range of features in a desktop-size footprint designed for small organizations. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also offers you the versatility to configure the system without any connected hard drives, to reconfigure the product easily, and to chain several NAS chassis with one another, offering a solution that can smoothly expand with your business.

Your company can use the Small Business NSS2000 or 3000 to:

• Automatically copy important information from each PC and application server in your organization
• Provide unified storage and sharing of important information
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to back up unattended each version of every file archived by workers, allowing you to restore information with ease
• Record and archive digital video from your video surveillance system

Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive collaboration and communications system that enables small businesses to interconnect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and employees in disparate locations to enhance their ability to interact with customers and teammates. In the latest release, the aggressively priced system offers enhanced wireless capabilities such as the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP phone with built-in Bluetooth, the SPA525G wireless IP device, which allows companies to expand easily by deploying handsets in places where traditional phone lines or network cables are not present or cannot conveniently be added.

Other new components of the Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 include:

• Cisco's 520 Secure Router product to help guard the company's infrastructure and provide workers secure access to the Internet and important corporate information from either side of the firewall
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to enable stakeholders to simplify the configuration and installation of solutions created specifically for certain businesses

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