Expanding your at-home workforce can have a major effect on network architecture, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has two decades of experience assisting SMBs to design, configure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that support a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Bakersfield organization to pick the appropriate tools and adhere to leading practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and returns maximum value. Progent offers services that go from on demand expertise for getting you over occasional IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out mission-critical tasks.

Progent can help Bakersfield, California companies to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-performing work-at-home environment by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, helpdesk outsourcing, data security, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Network Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Configuring the physical and software infrastructure required to support a remote workforce can be particularly complicated if you have to manage a combination of personal hardware like desktop computers and laptops, routers, and wireless appliances from various vendors and with a variety of operating systems and firmware releases. Progent's experience providing online help for both outdated as well as modern IT products in remote office venues enables you to make efficient use of your existing network infrastructure and offers ready access to expertise for making essential upgrades. Services offered by Progent to assist you to create a high-functioning telecommuting ecosystem include:

  • Virtual Private Network (VPN) connectivity makes it possible to establish a secure tunnel for authenticated at-home employees to use IT assets situated at your company datacenter or in a public cloud. Progent can assist you to deploy and manage VPN access between your teleworkers and your key network resources by providing online VPN integration consulting. For businesses with Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco-certified ASA Firewall consultants can assist your at-home workers to utilize Cisco's AnyConnect software to provide secure VPN connections for a wide selection of endpoint devices such as Microsoft Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) products enable a telecommuter to see and use a remote PC's desktop. This technology gives network managers substantial control over the computing ecosystem of at-home employees and offers remote users a consistent and more productive work experience. Progent's VDI consulting services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI consulting.
  • Routers attach at-home computer networks to the Internet and support VPN connections, home Wi-Fi connectivity, and firewalls. Progent offers expert remote support for configuring routers from all major vendors. See router integration services from Cisco-certified consultants.
  • Home Wi-Fi networks, typically supporting families and guests, are commonly used by at-home employees to connect to their router for work. This can cause throughput and cybersecurity issues. Progent can assist you to mitigate these problems by delivering expertise like Cisco Aironet integration consulting, Cisco-certified Meraki WiFi installation expertise, and Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi AP integration assistance.
  • Internet connectivity methods impact the performance and reliability of connections between at-home workers and the corporate network. Business-critical applications might require redundant Internet access in case the primary connection breaks. Progent can provide expertise for selecting ISPs, choosing sensible bandwidth and data volume offerings, and configuring high-availability Internet connections. See Internet access solutions.

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and maintaining a productive telecommuter solution for your Bakersfield, California company, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.