Cisco Premier Certified Consulting Cisco introduced new products targeted specifically for small company IT networks and engineered to deliver exceptional levels of protection and collaboration at a budget-friendly price. Solutions introduced by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest release of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a purpose-built antispam and antivirus security device that virtually eradicates email attacks as shipped. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage devices that provide protection for valuable data and enable workers to exchange information easily. The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications solution that seamlessly connects offices, employees, and customers however dispersed. The latest release features the industry's first cordless desktop IP phone with Bluetooth support. To read Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Announces Networking Solutions for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Consulting The Spam and Virus Blocker safeguards small companies by providing powerful defense against junk mail, viruses as well as other email-borne threats to guard your system and business data and simultaneously improve efficiency. Because the device blocks spam with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it avoids the expense and time with initial configuration and continuing and administration. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance increases the throughput of networks, servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance represents an end-to-end solution email threats by featuring hardware, intelligent software, continuous patches, and product support in a single package.

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

  • Efficiency: Helps to make sure that email-borne attacks and spam are caught while business email is accepted.
  • Ongoing self-installed updates: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase services, an online library of email security risks, makes sure that your Spam & Virus Blocker appliance incorporates the latest patches to guard your corporate email.
  • Easy installation and operation: Easy-to-use web-based setup wizards allow you to install Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in nearly any environment within 15 minutes, providing instant protection for your network.
  • Streamlined administration: As soon as you installs the the Spam and Virus Blocker, you benefit from spam and virus filtering with minimal additional effort demanded of your network support group.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems Consultants The NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the dependable security and advanced data backup features that your business requires, at a price small companies can handle. The Small Business NSS3000 supports up to four TB of data and as many as 15 simultaneous clients per chassis, provides the optimal answer for storing, accessing, and archiving your mission-critical business data. As distinct from entry-level NAS alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the advanced archiving, cryptography, user authentication, and high uptime your business requires.

The NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure handles any certified disk drive. It provides a wealth of capabilities in a desktop footprint designed for small businesses. The Small Business NSS3000 Storage Chassis also offers you the versatility to deploy the product without any connected hard disk drives, to modify the product at any time, and to link several NAS chassis together, providing a solution that can continually expand with your company.

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

  • Automatically back up important information from each desktop and server in your organization
  • Provide centralized storage and distribution of key files
  • Employ Continuous Data Protection to copy unattended every version of each file archived by workers, allowing your business to restore data easily
  • Record and archive video from your video surveillance cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Consulting Services The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete sharing and communications solution that enables small companies to connect telecommuters, mobile workers and employees in separate sites to enhance their ability to collaborate with clients and teammates. In Release 1.4, the affordable system has improved wireless features including the first wireless desktop IP handset with Bluetooth, the SPA525G IP phone, which allows companies to grow cost-effectively by adding phones in locations where traditional telephone wires or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot conveniently be run.

Additional innovative components of the Cisco SBCS Release 1.4 are:

  • The Cisco 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business network and provide workers safe access to the Internet and key corporate data remotely or locally
  • Cisco's Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to permit stakeholders to simplify the configuration and deployment of solutions created specifically for individual companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Experts Can Help Your Business to Take Advantage of Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified support professionals and CCIE networking experts can assist you to evaluate new Cisco technologies to determine their appropriateness for your IT system, deploy Cisco appliances to improve the security and performance of your network, and troubleshoot Cisco products both in person and remotely to keep your network operating dependably. Progent's consulting experts offer a range of affordable support services to improve the availability, safety, speed, and manageability of a small business information system:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco CCIE Network Engineers
Progent is the leading source of easy, immediate, and economical help from CCIE support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are elite networking experts who are awarded this top-level classification only after intense examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle even the most challenging problems encountered with network infrastructure planning, integration, troubleshooting, and administration. Progent’s CCIE consultants work closely with Cisco engineers in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS software and developing workarounds or acquiring software updates to resolve problems. Progent offers fast access to a CCIE by telephone so you can get emergency assistance for tough network problems that are undermining business efficiency but are outside the scope of your usual network support providers. Progent's CCIE support engineers can link to your environment via advanced off-site support tools in order to deliver timely and affordable diagnosis and repair of urgent infrastructure problems.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone experts can assist you to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued Voice over IP products to the newest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly known as CallManager, or with Unified CM Express to create a modern IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide support with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and designing UCS server failover and Cisco SRST systems for high availability. For additional information concerning Progent's support for Cisco's IP voice and video technology, refer to Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications Engineering Expertise.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously branded CallManager, functions as the heart of Cisco's communications and collaboration solution. CUCM and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) provide an advanced IP-PBX by integrating with applications such as Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for building an advanced customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM and CallManager experts can assist with any facet of CUCM support and debugging in areas such as integrating Voice over IP phones and desktop video phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN support, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE support, designing Cisco UCS server failover solutions for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Support
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consultants offer expert PIX and ASA Firewall engineering support covering infrastructure design, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and safe access services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home businesses to scalable enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of protection, performance, and high reliability for network environments of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's CISM and CISSP-premier security engineers can provide a range of cost-effective security Inventory service bundles and security assessment service bundles designed to give organizations of all sizes an opportunity to get a professional opinion about the strength of their security environment. The packages vary from low-cost external network security scan and internal network security scan packages for small businesses up to a high-level security evaluation package for enterprises who have to meet security levels demanded by government agencies or by customers. For each security inventory or evaluation package, engineers with high-level security accreditations evaluate and summarize scanned data and make suggestions for efficient improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure experts and CUBE integration consultants can assist you to plan, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE-connected SIP trunks. Progent offers affordable online or onsite expertise to assist you to move efficiently to a modern unified communications environment that offers fast ROI. Progent's Gold-certified Microsoft collaboration consultants can help you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms such as Skype for Business or Lync for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that integrates a wide array of wireless devices and technologies and offers the identical protection, expandability, and ease of management you expect from your wired environment. Progent can help you to implement transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless devices and software from other suppliers to give your company the functionality you need plus the most secure, reliable, and cost-effective wireless networking solution possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can show you how to design protection into your WLAN and your company's processes.

Automated Administration Tools for Cisco-based Small Business Networks
Progent's Cisco-Premier network engineers can provide help with Cisco's network management technology alongside a selection of specialized third-party products to build a complete network management strategy to keep your network operating reliably, conserve limited resources, protect your data, revive rapidly from hardware breakdown or malicious assaults, and allow you to expand or reassign network components sensibly and economically as your company grows.

To learn additional details concerning Progent's consulting services for Cisco connectivity and security products, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.