Small company networks situated within Illinois can now have immediate phone-based help from a Cisco certified CCIE infrastructure engineer to help with complex problems affecting your network. Progent retains the most extensive group of CCIE network consulting experts available by phone of any independent service firm in the country. Rates are reasonable, billing is per minute, engagement is immediate, and support is world class.

If your Illinois small business is outside of larger urban neighborhoods such as Chicago, Aurora, Rockford, or Naperville, contact with authorized CCIE experts could be hard to get when there's a crisis. This can cause lost income for your business. By contacting Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a Cisco certified CCIE professional ready to deliver the assistance to keep your computer network running.

Why is Access to a CCIE-certified Consultant So Significant?
A Cisco CCIE is a top-level infrastructure engineer who qualifies for this ultimate certification only after tough examinations administered by Cisco. A CCIE can deal with the most complex issues associated with computer network deployment, troubleshooting, and optimization. Progent’s CCIE-qualified professionals operate closely with Cisco's in-house staff in identifying issues with IOS utilities and coming up with temporary alternatives or finding program patches to resolve bugs. The vast majority of CCIEs work for large corporations or national Internet providers, and so their services are not readily accessible to small businesses.

For companies throughout Illinois, Progent can provide convenient, fast, and affordable online help from Cisco certified CCIE support professionals. CCIEs are highly-qualified network subject matter experts who are awarded this prestigious classification only through intense testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle even the most complex issues surrounding network topology, deployment, capacity, repair, and support. Progent’s CCIE professionals work intimately with Cisco engineers in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS platform and devising workarounds or obtaining patches to correct problems. Progent can provide fast online response from a CCIE so that you can get immediate help for complex network issues that are affecting worker efficiency but are beyond the expertise of your local IT service providers. Progent's CCIE consulting professionals can link to your environment via state-of-the-art remote connectivity tools in order to provide quick and affordable analysis and remediation of urgent network difficulties.

Ways Progent's Cisco Qualified CCIEs Offer Help with Cisco-based Networks in Illinois
Progent's CCIE network engineers provide high-level support for a wide array of Cisco networking technologies including:

Cisco ASA 5500-X Next Generation Firewalls with Firepower and PIX Firewalls
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more value than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for all new deployments. After Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the whole line of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to support Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most deployed network intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring powerful new features such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help you to maintain your existing PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls and migrate efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer online and onsite support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your company to design, configure, optimize, administer and troubleshoot firewall solutions built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See additional information about ASA 5500-X Next Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Router Technology
Progent's CCIE and CCNP Premier consultants can help your company to design, setup, and manage an integrated business network that can streamline processes, lower costs, and speed up ROI. By combining Cisco routers with Catalyst switches expertise and Cisco Aironet APs deployment help or Meraki cloud-managed APs configuration support, Progent can significantly increase the business value of your information network in Illinois. Progent can provide comprehensive online troubleshooting. To find out more about Progent's expertise in Cisco router products, visit Cisco Routers Consulting Support.

Aironet and Meraki 802.11ac Access Points and Wireless Controllers
Progent can provide the services of a Cisco-certified wireless networking consultant to assist you to plan, deploy, manage and repair a converged wired/wireless infrastructure incorporating a wide range of wireless products that offer the identical security, scalability, and manageability you expect from your wired network. Progent's Aironet Wireless Access Point experts, Meraki Wi-Fi AP consultants, and Cisco wireless controller experts can assist you to support legacy wireless solutions from Cisco or migrate seamlessly to the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology. Progent can also assist your IT team to carry out efficient Cisco wireless VoIP phone integration with Cisco access points for mobile on-premises telephony. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security specialists can show you how to build protection into your wireless network and into your company's processes. Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants and business continuity planning consultants can show you how to set up the high availability (HA) technology incorporated into Cisco's wireless and wired products so your converged network delivers continuing business value. Progent can provide value-priced remote and on-premises wireless site surveys to help you to plan and install a wireless LAN with custom-designed AP clusters optimized for your specific office layout, building structure, and application workloads.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist your business to integrate, manage, and debug Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP devices to the newest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist you to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, previously branded CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to create a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can provide expertise with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP gateways, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) solutions for survivability.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly known as CallManager, operates as the heart of Cisco's collaboration platform. Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) offer an advanced IP-PBX by integrating closely with applications like Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Unity Express for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for building a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can assist with any facet of Unified CM configuration and debugging in areas that include integrating Voice over IP phones and desktop video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN support, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE networking support, designing Cisco UCS server clustering solutions for high availability, and integration with Exchange Server.

Cisco Catalyst, Nexus and Meraki Products
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network technology consultants offer expert online and onsite support and troubleshooting for Cisco's Catalyst, Nexus and Meraki families of fixed and modular switches for applications that run the gamut from small or midsize organizations and campus networks to enterprise data centers and service providers. Progent can assist you to deploy Cisco's quickly evolving switching solutions to realize the speed, scale, resilience, virtualization support, security and manageability required for your business. To learn about Progent's consulting services for Cisco's market-leading portfolio of Catalyst switches, see Catalyst switch support. To learn about Progent's consulting and support for Cisco's Nexus Series of data center switches, see Nexus switch consulting and support. For information about Progent's support for Cisco Meraki switches, go to Cisco Meraki switches configuration and management.

Cisco Security Products
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you to choose, integrate, and maintain Cisco security technology. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security specialists can advise you about how to design protection into your business processes in Illinois and Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance consultants can help you to plan and maintain SIEM solutions that allow you to stay compliant with governmental requirements for prompt incident reporting. Progent can assist you to create a written security plan to establish clear policies, install scanning and auditing software, design and install a secure connectivity architecture that incorporates technology from a variety of network companies, offer outbound spam and virus filtering with content filtering for in-bound and outgoing email, and advise you about procedures to maximize the safety of your infrastructure. Progent's security consulting is available to help you configure an firewall, set up secure remote and mobile connectivity to messaging and business data, and install or troubleshoot Virtual Private Networks. To find out additional information concerning Progent's support for Cisco security and VPN products, visit Cisco Security and VPN Engineering Support.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure consultants and CUBE configuration consultants can assist your business to plan, integrate, maintain, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective online or onsite support to assist companies to move smoothly to an advanced unified communications environment that delivers fast return on investment. Progent's certified Microsoft unified communications consultants can assist you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media platforms such as Skype for Business Server and Lync for access to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Cisco-based Network Management
Progent's Cisco-Premier network consultants can show you how to use Cisco's network management utilities alongside a selection of powerful open source and proprietary programs to develop a complete network management toolkit to keep your infrastructure operating dependably, conserve valuable resources, protect your information, recover rapidly from hardware failure or deliberates assaults, and enable you to scale or reassign network resources intelligently and economically as your Illinois business grows.

Progent can also help you to use network management tools to monitor and categorize system data to enable traffic shaping, which permits you to program routers to enforce different throughput constraints on designated classes of processes based on the importance you assign. By storing and sorting data packets above your contracted volume, and by giving priority to business-critical processes, traffic shaping can prevent Internet Service Provider overage charges from spinning out of control and/or avoid lost worker productivity caused by brute force enforcement of your network traffic volume limits during periods of heavy demand. To learn more details about Progent's network management consulting expertise for Cisco-powered environments, visit Network Management Solutions for Cisco-powered Environments.

NetApp and Cisco Cloud Architecture Consulting
FlexPod Datacenter is a best-practice cloud platform developed and tested together by NetApp and Cisco to combine servers, network fabric and SAN storage resources for hosting critical business applications and management tools. To find out more details concerning Progent's consulting support for NetApp and Cisco FlexPod cloud solutions, go to NetApp and Cisco FlexPod Cloud Architecture Consulting.

How to Talk to a Certified CCIE Networking Professional Now
To learn how to contact a Cisco CCIE for online help in Illinois, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Urgent Remote Network Help.