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Cisco has developed a comprehensive portfolio of wireless networking devices and technologies that enable continual connections to information and resources and to facilitate teamwork among workers, partners, suppliers, and clients. Cisco's wireless products include Cisco's Small Business, Aironet and Meraki series of wireless access points, as well as Cisco's Wireless LAN Controller plug-ins and appliances. Progent's certified wireless consulting experts can help businesses of all sizes to utilize Cisco wireless products to accommodate the current paradigm of BYOD networks by integrating their tethered and untethered environments to benefit from simplified deployment, consistently high throughput, centralized management, uniform policy enforcement, high availability (HA), and across-the-board security.
Cisco's Unified Wireless solution can expand to up to 18,000 wireless access points with Layer 3 mobility at central or remote venues like enterprise campuses, university lecture halls, branches, and home offices. Cisco's Wi-Fi APs and controllers are part of Cisco's Unified Wireless Network and are engineered to support the identical degree of security, throughput, and manageability for WLANs that businesses expect in their wired ecosystem. This technology includes built-in mobile services such as IP voice, high-definition IP video, and safe guest connectivity. Cisco's Unified Wireless Network technology allows companies to create Wi-Fi ecosystems that improve the way they do business and enhance output through a dynamic and connected employee base.
Progent's Cisco-certified network consultants offers online or onsite expertise to help your organization to plan, deploy, manage, expand, and troubleshoot converged wired and wireless network infrastructure of any size and for any venue. In addition, Progent can provide value-priced online and on-premises wireless site surveys to assist your company to design and install a wireless network with customized AP clustering optimized for your specific office layout, building structure, and intended application.
Small Business, Aironet, Meraki and Catalyst Access Points (APs)
Cisco's Small Business, Aironet, Meraki and Catalyst families of wireless access points enable organizations to converge wired and wireless networks to deliver the accessibility, capacity, performance, security and manageability required to support practically any environment. Cisco's wireless access points range from entry-level, single-radio 802.11b/g/n units with throughput of 300 Mbps intended for small businesses or telecommuters to 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) wireless access points capable of supporting hundreds of wireless clients on each access point and delivering throughput of more than 5 Gbps. Cisco's latest line of access points can be combined or clustered to provide the scale to support sites with high client density and with high usage rates of video-intense applications.
Small Business 100, 300 and 500 Series of APs
Cisco's Small Business Family of APs are Linux-powered units intended as entry-level wireless APs for small offices. Many versions in Cisco's Small Business portfolio of wireless access points work with Cisco's Single Point Setup technology, which makes it possible to configure, manage and repair a cluster of wireless access points from a single device via an intuitive web browser interface. All versions include Power over Ethernet (POE) and provide Quality of Service (QoS), rogue AP awareness, and bridge mode for connecting to a second Ethernet LAN.
The Cisco Small Business WAP121 Wireless-N AP is a wall-mountable, single-band 2.4GHz unit able to support 16 802.11n wireless clients, has a Fast Ethernet port, permits up to 4 AP devices and 40 wireless clients per cluster, and can handle data rates of 300 Mbps. Cisco's Small Business WAP131 is a desktop dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11n wireless access point that can support 16 wireless clients on each radio for up to 32 wireless clients, includes a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port, and delivers sustained data rates of up to 300 Mbps for each radio. The WAP131 does not support AP clustering. The Cisco WAP150 is a general-purpose Wave 1 dual-radio AC/n wireless access point that includes a one Gbit Power over Ethernet port and can handle up to 16 clients per radio with 867 Mbps throughput for AC clients and 300 Mbps for 802.11n devices. Cisco's WAP1501 allows 4 access points for each cluster.
The Cisco Small Business WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point is a wallmount single-band (2.4 or 5 GHz) 802.11n device that can handle 80 active wireless clients sharing an 8-device cluster. The WAP321 includes a GE interface and can deliver a sustained data rate of 300 Mbps for the selected radio. The Cisco WAP351 is a dual-radio 2.4/5 GHz 802.11n wireless access point that includes a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch and can support 32 wireless clients on each radio for a total of up to 64 active clients, and deliver a sustained data rate of 300 Mbps for each radio. The WAP351 access point does not support clustering. Cisco's Small Business WAP361 is a dual-radio Wireless-AC/N AP that includes a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch, allows 32 clients per radio, and offers 867 Mbps throughput for 802.11ac devices and 300 Mbps for 802.11n clients. Cisco's Small Business WAP361 allows 8 WAP361 access points per cluster. Cisco's wallmount Small Business WAP371 Wireless-AC/N is a dual-radio device that works with 802.11a/b/g/n and the latest 802.11ac IEEE specification. The WAP371 Wireless-AC/N has a GE interface, can support up to 32 active wireless clients per radio, and eight APs for each cluster.
Cisco's WAP561 802.11n Dual Radio access point includes one GE port and dual radios that offer 450 Mbps throughput for each radio, can handle 64 clients for each radio, and allow up to 16 access points per cluster. Cisco's WAP551 is like Cisco's WAP 561 but has a single selectable band (2.4 or 5.0 GHz). Cisco's WAP571 and WAP571E (the weather-proof outdoor model) are dual-radio Wireless-AC/N APs incorporating two Gb Ethernet LAN interfaces with link aggregation (LAG), and up to 1.9 Gigabit/sec throughput with 1300 Mbps over 11ac and 600 Mbps over 11n. Both access points can handle 32 clients on each radio and 16 access points on each cluster.
The Cisco Small Business WAP581 Wireless-AC Wave 2 Wireless Access Point complies with the 802.11ac Wi-Fi 5 standard and features 4x4 and 3x3 MU-MIMO to provide 2.8 Gbps data rates on the 5.0-Ghz radio and 600 Mbps at 2.4 GHz for an aggregate max data rate of 2.4 Gbps. The Small Business WAP581 has an integrated 2.5G Ethernet port and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port with 802.3at Power over Ethernet (PoE). The WAP581 Wave 2 Wi-Fi 5 AP can handle as many as 200 connective users, a maximum of 50 active users per radio, 16 access points per cluster, and 960 active client users for each cluster.
For details about Progent's consulting services for current and legacy Cisco Small Business series of WiFi access points, refer to Cisco Small Business 100, 300 and 500 wireless APs configuration and troubleshooting.
Cisco's Aironet Line of Access Points
Cisco's Aironet family of wireless access points has consistently been the market leading access point product. Aironet access points run the gamut from entry-level devices to enterprise-class APs. Cisco's Aironet family span several generations of models supporting the evolving 802 standard. The latest line of Aironet access points work with Cisco's Unified Wireless Network architecture and incorporate 802.11ac technology, which delivers three times the speed as well as superior range and user density in comparison to the prior generation of APs. Cisco's current dual-frequency Aironet access points continue to accommodate 802.11n at 2.4 GHz for clients that lack 802.11ac radios.
The earliest Aironet APs are now outdated units that have come to end-of-sale status and are no longer fully supported by Cisco. Progent continues to support the entire Aironet family of access points and can help you to maintain your current Aironet Wi-Fi system or move smoothly to the latest Aironet products. For more information about Progent's support for current and legacy Aironet access points, refer to Aironet APs planning and support.
Meraki Wireless Access Points
Cisco's portfolio of Meraki dual-band 2.4/5 GHz indoor APs include budget-friendly devices for small businesses to advanced products that offer up to 5.9 Gbit/sec performance. Every Cisco Meraki indoor wireless access point provides high-end capabilities like self-configuring plug-and-play deployment, advanced protection, BYOD support, built-in traffic analysis, automatic web-based firmware updates, and centralized cloud management via an intuitive dashboard. Each Cisco Meraki indoor access point also includes two high-power radios with boosted reception as well as a dedicated radio that offers (WIDS/WIPS) security for RF analysis and deep packet inspection at line rate.
Meraki outdoor wireless access points are IP67 certified, built to operate in rugged outdoor environments, and able to withstand dust particles, shock and humidity. Meraki outdoor access points include a Gigabit Ethernet port and deliver advanced capabilities such as cloud-based management with network-wide visibility, native Active Directory integration, built-in antivirus scan (NAC), single-click guest access and guest isolation firewall, Layer 7 traffic shaping, plus auto-configuring mesh with beamforming. To find out more about Progent's consulting services for Meraki wireless access points and management tools, refer to Cisco's Meraki APs system design and troubleshooting.
Cisco's Catalyst 9100 Family of Wi-Fi 6 and W-Fi 6E APs
Cisco's Catalyst 9100 line of 802.11ax wireless access points are designed for deployments ranging from home offices to high-density stadiums. Catalyst 9100 access points are compliant with the 802.11ax standard, referred to as Wi-Fi 6, which in turn builds on the preceding 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5) specification. As an improvement to 802.11ac, Wi-Fi 6 is designed to use both the 2.4-Ghz and 5-GHz bands. Headline enhancements supported by Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series APs include MU-MIMO support for uplink traffic, dual NAVs for better dependability, Target Wake Time for conserving power usage in battery-powered endpoints, adaptive power and sensitivity thresholds for better spectrum use, and dynamic fragmentation for reduced overhead. Cisco Catalyst 9100 802.11ax access points can run Cisco's EWC, handle as many as 400 client users per radio, and are powered by Cisco IOS XE Software.
Cisco's Catalyst 916x Series Wi-Fi 6E access points are the first Cisco access points to offer the versatility of being monitored and managed on-site via Cisco DNA Center or via the cloud using Meraki Dashboard management tools. This permits organizations to move to cloud-based or hybrid deployments at their own pace. All Catalyst 916x APs comply with the a/b/g/n/ac/ax and 6E Wi-Fi specifications and fully support the new 6-GHz band. Each AP includes 5 radios and supports up to 400 clients per radio. Every AP model also contains a dedicated radio for Cisco CleanAir Pro for reducing interference, has a USB 2.0 port, and offers Bluetooth Low Energy. The value-priced Catalyst 9162 Series AP is suited for small businesses, incorporates three 2x2 radios, and provides 1x 100M/1000M/2.5G mGig Ethernet support.
The Catalyst 9163E Wi-Fi 6E AP is built for tough outdoor venues like campuses or municipal Wi-Fi. The 9163E includes three client serving 2x2 radios, an IoT radio, and a tri-band scanning radio. Interfaces include 1x 100M/1000M/2.5G Multigigabit Ethernet (RJ-45), a management console port (RJ-45), 4x N-Type Wi-Fi antenna connectors, and a GPS/GNSS antenna connector. The 9163E supports Omnidirectional Dipole Self-Identifying Antennas. The Catalyst 9164 Series access point is suited for small and mid-size enterprises, has one 2x2 radio and two 4x4 radios, and features 1x 100M/1000M/2.5G mGig Ethernet support. The Catalyst 9166 Series access point is suited for large and medium-sized enterprises, includes three 4x4 radios, and provides 1x 100M/1000M/2.5G/5G mGig Ethernet support. The 9166 also includes environmental sensors to track air quality, temperature, and moisture. For more information about Progent's support for Cisco's Catalyst 9100 Family of Wi-Fi 6/6E 802.11ax Access Points, refer to Wireless APs solution planning, configuration, and debugging services.
Cisco 9800 Series Wi-Fi 6 Wireless Controllers
Cisco Catalyst 9800 line of Wi-Fi 6-compatible wireless LAN controllers allow you to manage modern wireless networks that incorporate 802.11ax wireless APs. The 802.11ax standard, popularly known as Wi-Fi 6, builds on previous generation 802.11ac (referred to as Wi-Fi 5) devices by providing lower latency and more reliable performance, allowing higher client user density, providing enhanced security, saving energy for battery-dependent mobile devices, and allowing more flexibility for handling the latest kinds of IoT endpoints. Catalyst 9800 line Wi-Fi controllers feature high availability with transparent software updates, live fixes, and the ability to connect additional access points without service interruption. Enhanced security technologies include Cisco Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS), secure boot, and Software-Defined Access. Streaming telemetry permits you to track and analyze network and endpoint health.
All controllers in the Catalyst 9800 family are powered by Cisco's IOS XE Software and operate with Cisco's DNA Center (DNAC) or with Prime Infrastructure management platforms. Cisco's Catalyst 9800 wireless network controllers can manage Cisco Aironet 802.11ac Wave 1 and Wave 2 wireless APs concurrently with Catalyst 9100 Series Wi-Fi 6 wireless APs. To learn more about Progent's support for Cisco 9800 Series 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 Wireless Controllers, see Catalyst 9800 Series Wi-Fi 6 wireless LAN controller appliances system planning, deployment, and troubleshooting services.
Cisco Wave 2 802.11ac Wireless Network Controllers
Cisco Wave 2 wireless controllers allow fast communication, configuration, administration, monitoring and debugging for Cisco Wi-Fi devices and software services. Cisco has developed both hardware and software-based Wi-Fi controllers for unified management of WiFi networks, but networks with a large number of Wi-Fi APs are better served by hardware-based wireless controllers. Current generation Wi-Fi controller devices from Cisco offer major advantages over Wave 1 and earlier models such as greater performance, simultaneous support for both 1G and 10G interfaces, improved application visibility and control (AVC), and hardened, integrated protection.
The Cisco 3504 Wireless Controller is a value-priced device available in a desktop body and designed for smaller organizations. You can install the 3504 model in a centralized network architecture such as in small branch and home-based offices administered over the wide-area network via FlexConnect, or in mesh deployments where Ethernet cabling is sparse. The 3504 wireless controller can handle as many as 150 APs and 3,000 client users, offers 4 Gbps performance, and supports up to 4,096 VLANs. Cisco's 3504 wireless controller includes a Cisco Multigigabit port and four 1-Gigabit Ethernet connections. Access points can be connected directly to the controller via two Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports. The 3504 Wi-Fi controller offers subsecond failover for access points and clients, which allows uninterrupted availability for apps. As with other Wave 2 wireless controllers from Cisco, the 3504 device has the integrated capability to work with Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Cisco Mobility Services, and Cisco 5520 and 8540 wireless controllers.
Cisco's 5520 Wireless Controller, offered in a 1 rack unit package, is designed to support midsize to large organizations and campus environments and can be used in centralized, distributed, and mesh architectures. The 5520 Wi-Fi controller can handle up to 1,500 wireless APs and 20,000 client users, delivers 20 Gbps throughput, and supports 4,096 VLANs. The 5520 WiFi controller includes two 10 GE interfaces and incorporates SSD storage, backup fans, optional backup power supplies, and rapid failover for nonstop availability.
The Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller, available in a 2RU package, is a top-of-the-line WiFi controller intended to support enterprises, service providers, and large campus environments. The 8540 WiFi controller can be run in centralized, distributed, and mesh architectures and supports as many as 6,000 APs and 64,000 client users. The 8540 Wireless controller offers data rates up to 40 Gbps and supports 4,096 VLANs. The 8540 controller includes four 1-GB or 10GE ports and features solid-state storage, backup power supplies, redundant fans, and subsecond failover.
Wave 1 Cisco WiFi LAN Controllers
Cisco wireless LAN controllers cut the time and cost needed to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Wi-Fi networks by centralizing control of tasks such as provisioning access points, applying consistent policies across converged wired and wireless LANs, supporting enterprise-wide Quality of Service (QoS) for voice and video, tracking and optimizing system health, implementing intrusion prevention tools to defend against unauthorized access and DDoS threats, and handling IPv6 and dual-stack clients. Cisco has developed wireless LAN controllers for businesses of all sizes and can provide standalone desktop appliances, modular add-on wireless controllers for Cisco ISR routers and Catalyst switches, and switches with built-in wireless LAN controllers.
Cisco's Wave 1 wireless controllers incorporate Cisco CleanAir tools to minimize signal interference and produce self-healing and self-optimizing wireless LANs for maximum 802.11n and 802.11ac throughput and protection. Integrated Bonjour Gateways allow discovery, advertisement and policy throughout WLAN, LAN and WAN for Apple applications. For high availability (HA), Cisco wireless LAN controllers support wireless access point and client stateful failover by enabling a backup HA wireless controller to synchronize with a primary controller for access point license count, CAPWAP state and roaming keys, and AP CAPWAP state. In case the main controller stops working, thousands of wireless access points and clients can failover in less than a second to the secondary controller.
Cisco's Wireless Module for ISR Routers with UCS-E offers entry-level 802.11n and 802.11ac support for Cisco 2900 and 3900 routers deployed by small to medium-sized organizations and satellite offices. This affordable and scalable solution can handle from five to 200 wireless access points and up to 6000 wireless clients. (For information about Progent's online and on-premises consulting and troubleshooting support services for Cisco routers, see Cisco router deployment and troubleshooting consulting.)
Catalyst 3650 Series are 1RU form-factor switches intended for SMBs and branch offices and have a built-in wireless network controller with the ability to support 40 Gb of wireless capacity for each switch and up to 25 access points and 1000 clients per switch. Catalyst 3850 Series are 1RU switches intended for midsize businesses and large enterprises and feature a built-in wireless controller supporting up to 40 Gb of wireless capacity on each switch and support for 50 APs and 2000 wireless clients. The WiSM2 is a plug-in blade for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches that include an integrated wireless LAN controller intended for mid-to-large size businesses and capable of 20 Gbps performance and able to handle up to 1000 wireless access points and as many as 15,000 wireless clients. (For information about Progent's online and onsite consulting support for Cisco switches, see Cisco switches deployment and troubleshooting support.)
Cisco 2500 Series Wireless Controllers are entry-level desktop units that streamline the provisioning and management of wireless networks for small and midsize businesses and branch offices. The Cisco 2500 wireless controller can manage from five to 75 wireless access points and up to 1000 wireless clients and offers throughput of 1 Gbps.
The Cisco 5500 Wireless Controller is an expandable 1RU unit intended for medium-sized to large businesses and campuses and can manage 500 APs and 7,000 clients while providing 8 Gbps performance. The Cisco 5760 Wireless Controller is a 1RU device intended for mid-to-large campuses with the ability to manage 1000 access points and 12,000 wireless clients and providing throughput of 60 Gbps to handle high wireless client densities and high usage of media-rich applications.
The Cisco Flex 7500 Series Wireless Controller is intended to enable centralized management of massive collections of wireless branches from a single location, eliminating the requirement for a Wi-Fi controller at each branch. The 1RU Flex 7500 appliance lets you establish a private cloud to configure, track, maintain, and troubleshoot up to 6000 wireless access points and up to 64,000 clients while supporting 1 Gbps throughput. Cisco's 8500 Wireless Controller is a 1RU rackmount appliance designed to monitor and manage wireless environments for very large campuses or service providers and can be expanded to support 6000 wireless points and 64,000 clients while delivering 10 Gbps performance.
For more information about Cisco wireless controllers, go to Cisco Wi-Fi controllers consulting services.
Legacy Cisco Access Points, Bridges and Controllers Supported by Progent
The IEEE 802.11ac specification for Wi-Fi effectively rendered obsolete the previous releases of Wi-Fi products for many venues that support high densities of clients and high usage of HD video software applications. Even for businesses who do not need the bandwidth efficiency of 802.11ac, a large number of Cisco wireless devices have reached end-of-sale or end-of-support status, which can represent serious maintenance and compliance issues. Progent's Cisco-certified consulting experts offer online and onsite support for a wide array of earlier-generation Cisco wireless products. Progent can in addition assist companies to assess the business case for updating legacy wireless technology and can assist in planning and executing affordable, non-disruptive migrations. The following are a few of Cisco older-generation wireless products that Progent's consulting experts continue to support.
Legacy Cisco Aironet APs
Aironet 1000/1130AG Series access points are intended for offices and similar locations which have little environmental variability. These products have built-in antennas that offer predictable radio coverage patterns. The Cisco 1130G Series WAP is offered for regulated domains that do not allow 802.11a/5GHz transmission.
Aironet 1230AG or 1240AG family access points are intended for more problematic radio frequency environments such as factories or above suspended ceilings which typically call for adjustable protruding antennas and ruggedized cases. The Cisco 1240G Series product is designed for controlled locations that do not permit 802.11a/5GHz operation.
Cisco Aironet 1500 Series lightweight outdoor wireless mesh LAN access points offer an affordable, expandable, protected outdoor wireless mechanism for enterprise campuses and for public venues that need access for portable phones or computers.
Legacy Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN Bridges
Cisco Aironet wireless LAN bridges offer a high-performance and multi-featured solution for connecting numerous local area networks in a metro area or public wireless environment. Cisco wireless LAN bridges offer a versatile, manageable technology that meets the security requirements of WAN specialists. These devices support both P2P and point-to-multipoint deployments with good coverage and support for traffic rates as high as 54 Mbps.
Cisco Aironet wireless LAN bridges deliver data rates several times higher than E1/T1 lines for far less expense, doing away with the necessity of costly leased lines when linking different offices. Since bridges carry no recurring costs, savings on leased-line bills rapidly pay for the initial equipment costs. Self-installed private lines and in some cases leased lines using copper or fiber-optic cable often result in considerable startup costs when they are impeded by obstacles like freeways, railroads, or bodies of water. Cisco wireless LAN bridges can be deployed quickly an offer a fast return on investment.
Cisco Aironet 1300 Series outdoor access points/bridges can be implemented as stand-alone access points, wireless bridges, or wireless group bridges. These appliances have a ruggedized enclosure and provide high-speed, cost-effective wireless connectivity between multiple stationary or mobile environments and clients.
Aironet 1400 Series wireless bridges provide high-performance, dependable outside connections for line-of-sight (LOS) applications. These devices include a ruggedized enclosure that can hold up to harsh outside conditions and function in wide temperature ranges.
Legacy Cisco Wireless Network Controllers
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers provide single-point management of WLANs by streamlining the handling of key technologies including integrated intrusion prevention system (IPS), fast RF management, zero touch configuration, and N+1 redundancy. These controllers operate with small wireless access points to deliver enhanced performance and advanced control capabilities.
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs) provide the manageability, expandability, protection, and resilience that system managers need to build safe, large-scale wireless networks, from satellite offices to small companies to main campuses. Cisco's first-generation Wireless Network Controllers can be clustered to offer accommodation for as many as 2400 wireless access points per roaming domain.
Cisco's WLCM or WLCM-E Module for Integrated Services (IS) Routers provides small-to mid-size businesses (SMBs) and enterprises an economical way to deploy and control protected WLANs at branch locations. These wireless controllers manage up to 12 Cisco Aironet APs and are installable in 2800/3800 IS Routers and Cisco 3700 Series Integrated Services Routers. (To learn concerning Progent's remote and on-premises support for Cisco routers, refer to Cisco router deployment and management consulting.)
How Progent's Engineers Can Assist Your Company with Cisco Wireless Products
Progent can provide access to a Cisco-certified consulting professional to help your business to plan, install, maintain and troubleshoot a converged wired and wireless environment integrating a wide range of wireless technologies that provide the same security, expandability, and manageability you expect from a wired environment. Progent can help you to manage legacy wireless products from Cisco or upgrade seamlessly to current 802.11ax-compatible products. Progent's CISM and CISSP security specialists can show you how to build protection into your WLAN and into your company's operations. Progent's disaster recovery consultants and business continuity planning consultants can show you how to deploy the high availability (HA) features built into Cisco's wireless and wired technologies so your converged infrastructure provides significant business value.
Progent's Wireless Site Survey helps you to plan and deploy a state-of-the-art WLAN customized for your facilities, providing a Wi-Fi solution that provides seamless coverage, high speed and capacity, Quality of Service to handle IP video, advanced security, and easy management. Progent's Wi-Fi Site Survey can be performed remotely to reduce time and costs, or onsite to deal with more challenging environments.
For a further discussion of Progent's wireless integration capabilities, see Progent's Wireless Network Support.
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- Cisco WiFi Controllers Consultants
- Meraki Wireless Access Points Design Expertise
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM) and Cisco CallManager Consulting and Technical Support
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- Infrastructure Design for Cisco-powered Datacenters and Colocation Centers
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Amazon MWS programming Programming Companies
Amazon Marketplace Web Service Integration Firm
Amazon Marketplace Web Service is an integrated collection of APIs that allows Amazon sellers to streamline their operations by automating key sales activities including listings, orders, payments, fulfillment, and reports. By leveraging Amazon's extensive online selling environment and automating their sales processes, merchants can expand their market, reduce their cost of sales, improve reaction time to customers, and add to their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) consultants can collaborate with your development team and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training so you can cut development time and costs and expedite your ROI.
Microsoft 365 authentication Online Troubleshooting
Integration Support Hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange integration
Microsoft has made a strong effort to enable transparent hybrid ecosystems that integrate Microsoft 365 and on-premises Exchange systems. This permits you to have certain Exchange mailboxes hosted at your corporate datacenter and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's certified Exchange consultants can assist you with any phase of planning, implementing and troubleshooting your hybrid Exchange solution. Progent's Exchange consultants can deliver occasional expertise to help you resolve stubborn technical issues and also offer extensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to ensure your hybrid Exchange solution is completed on time and on budget.
.NET Visual Basic Coding
24x7x365 .NET C++ Programming Firms
Progent's application experts have worked for 20 years with .NET technologies and the Visual Studio development system and can create or update .NET apps rapidly and at low cost.
24 Hour Apple OS X IT Consultants
24-7 Apple OSX Tiger Technical Support
Progent's consultants can provide Mac users a variety of services such as workstation support, Apple macOS and OS X consulting, Mac integration with Windows networks, Microsoft Entourage and email help, network protection services, and one-on-one training. Progent can help clients to migrate to macOS from Mac OS X or other earlier versions of Apple Mac OS X and Progent can offer help with macOS and Mac OS X application software. Progent's specialists in Apple technology can also assist your business with iPhone support and iPad management, or migrating to Apple's iCloud. For business networks built exclusively on Apple macOS or OS X or for networks with a combination of Mac, Linux and Windows based servers and desktops, Progent's Apple, Cisco, and Microsoft consultants have the experience and depth to handle the complexity of planning, integrating and maintaining a network environment that is available, secure, fast and able to achieve your organization's objectives.
Progent Cybersecurity Media Relations Consultant
Consultant Progent in the News
Progent in the News is hosted by cybersecurity expert Darrin Johnson.
SentinelOne Endpoint Ransomware Protection Professionals
Signature-based Virus Protection Network Engineer
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning tools from SentinelOne to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against familiar and novel ransomware variants like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, Conti or Nephilim.
System Center 2016 and Office 365 Integration Online Help
24 Hour Remote Consulting System Center 2016 and Exchange Online Integration
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have over 10 years of background planning, deploying, enhancing and repairing SCOM environments and can provide organizations of any size expert online or onsite consulting support for Microsoft SCOM 2012. Progent can help your company to design a topology for SCOM 2012 servers that delivers the performance and availability required to monitor your IT resources effectively, whether your datacenters are on-premises, cloud-based, or a hybrid solution. Progent's SCOM consultants can also help you to install and set up Microsoft SCOM 2012 management packs based on best practices for monitoring network infrastructure and both Microsoft and 3rd-party apps and services. Also, Progent can provide responsive remote or onsite troubleshooting to help you to fix serious issues uncovered by System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
MS SQL Security Team
Contract Programming Firm SQL 2008 Reporting Services
SQL Server 2000 is a rich, web-aware database and data analysis solution that enables the fast creation of cutting-edge high-end programs that can provide your business a significant competitive advantage. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 features core support for XML and the capability to communicate across the Internet and outside the firewall. The experience of Progent's certified SQL Server 2000 engineers, with an average of more than over 10 years of work helping with Microsoft technology, ensures you success in planning, deploying and managing Microsoft SQL Server applications that are well connected with other applications based on Microsoft's .NET platform.
Professionals NetApp MetroCluster Troubleshooting
24 Hour NetApp SnapMirror Specialist
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery platform that uses failover storage clustering with continual replication to deliver fast, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters located up to 185 miles apart. Progent's team of veteran network consultants can help you to plan, deploy, manage, update, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to choose an architecture for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your technical requirements and budget. Progent can make sure you adhere to best practices for installing your MetroCluster environment by providing help with procedures like assigning shelf IDs, arranging aggregate and plexes layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, installing Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your disaster recovery solution to prove adherence with information assurance standards and regulatory requirements.
.NET Application Developer
.NET Visual Studio Contract Programming Firm
Progent's software developers have worked for two decades with .NET tools and the Visual Studio development system and are able to create or update .NET applications quickly and affordably.
ransomware cleanup and file restore Engineer
Snatch ransomware recovery Engineer
Progent's proven ransomware recovery consultants can help your business to rebuild a network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky.
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