Enlarging your remote workforce can have a major impact on network architecture, security/compliance, and company processes. Progent has two decades of background assisting SMBs to design, configure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Corpus Christi company to pick the right technologies and follow leading practices in building and operating a secure virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that promotes collaboration and returns maximum value. Progent can provide support services that go from as-needed expertise for helping you past occasional IT bottlenecks to full project management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.
Progent can assist Corpus Christi, Texas businesses to succeed with any facet of creating a high-performing remote work ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud connectivity, Help Desk outsourcing, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and unified management.
Infrastructure for an At-Home Workforce
Setting up the network infrastructure needed for a remote workforce can be particularly challenging if you have to manage a combination of worker-owned equipment such as desktop computers and laptops, Internet routers, and wireless APs from an assortment of vendors and with a variety of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's background providing online support for both outdated as well as current IT products in virtual office venues enables you to make cost-effective use of your available network infrastructure and offers ready access to expertise for implement essential updates. Support services offered by Progent to help you to create a high-functioning work-at-home ecosystem include:
- Virtual Private Network connectivity makes it possible to create a secure tunnel for authenticated at-home employees to use IT assets situated at your corporate data center or in a public cloud. Progent's consultants can help your company to configure and maintain VPN access between your teleworkers and your key IT resources by providing remote VPN configuration support. For organizations using Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco ASA experts can assist your at-home workers to set up Cisco's popular AnyConnect client software for safe VPN connections for a broad range of endpoint devices including Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platforms enable a telecommuter to see and use a remote computer's desktop. This gives network managers more control over the computing ecosystem of at-home employees and offers them a consistent and more productive experience. Progent's VDI services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI solutions.
- Routers attach home computer networks to the Internet and support VPN tunnels, home wireless networks, and firewall services. Progent can provide expert remote consulting for integrating routers from all major vendors. See router integration support from Cisco-certified consultants.
- Home Wi-Fi networks, often supporting families and guests, are commonly used by telecommuters to connect to their Internet router for work. This can create performance and cybersecurity problems. Progent can help businesses to resolve these problems by providing services that include Aironet configuration expertise, Cisco Meraki wireless deployment consulting, and Ubiquiti wireless access point integration assistance.
- Internet access methods impact the speed and reliability of connections between at-home workers and the company data center. Line-of-business processes may require redundant Internet access in the event the normal connection fails. Progent can provide guidance for identifying ISPs, selecting sensible bandwidth and data volume bundles, and configuring high-availability Internet access. See Internet connectivity integration services.
Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and managing a productive telecommuter environment for your Corpus Christi, Texas organization, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.