Enlarging your remote workforce can have a significant effect on network infrastructure, security, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of background helping small and mid-size businesses to design, configure, administer, tune, and debug IT environments that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can help your Minnetonka organization to select the right tools and follow leading practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and delivers top value. Progent offers support services ranging from as-needed expertise for helping you over challenging IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.
Progent can help Minnetonka, Minnesota organizations to with any aspect of building a high-functioning telecommuting ecosystem by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, helpdesk outsourcing, security and compliance, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.
Network Infrastructure for Teleworkers
Configuring the network infrastructure needed for an at-home workforce can be particularly complex if you must accommodate a mix of worker-owned hardware such as PCs and laptops, Internet routers, and wireless appliances from an assortment of manufacturers and with a mix of operating systems and firmware levels. Progent's background providing online support for both legacy and modern IT products in virtual office venues allows you to make efficient use of your available infrastructure and offers ready access to expertise for making essential upgrades. Services available from Progent to help your company to create a productive telecommuting infrastructure include:
- VPN connectivity makes it possible to establish a safe connection for authenticated at-home workers to use IT assets situated at your corporate datacenter or in a public cloud. Progent's consultants can assist your company to deploy and manage VPN connections between your at-home workforce and your key network resources by providing remote VPN configuration support. For organizations using Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco-certified ASA Firewall consultants can assist your telecommuters to set up Cisco's AnyConnect software for safe VPN connections for a broad range of devices such as Microsoft Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Android.
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) products enable a teleworker to see and use a remote PC's desktop. This gives network managers substantial control over the digital ecosystem of at-home employees and ensures remote users a familiar experience. Progent's virtual desktop services include Windows Remote Desktop integration and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI consulting.
- Routers attach at-home computer networks to the Internet and typically support VPN connections, local Wi-Fi connectivity, and firewalls. Progent can provide expert online support for deploying routers from all major vendors. See router configuration services from Cisco-certified consultants.
- Home Wireless networks, often supporting the whole family and visitors, are frequently utilized by telecommuters to access their router for work. This can cause throughput and cybersecurity problems. Progent can help businesses to resolve these issues by providing services like Aironet integration expertise, Cisco Meraki WiFi deployment consulting, and Ubiquiti wireless AP setup assistance.
- Internet access solutions affect the performance and availability of connections between at-home workers and the company data center. Vital applications may demand redundant Internet connections in case the primary connection fails. Progent can provide guidance for identifying ISPs, selecting sensible bandwidth and data volume packages, and setting up fault-tolerant Internet access. See Internet connectivity solutions.
Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about building and managing a productive work-from-home environment for your Minnetonka, Minnesota organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.