Small company networks situated in Louisiana can get instant remote help from a Cisco authorized CCIE infrastructure professional to fix complex problems involving their network. Progent offers the services of the most extensive team of CCIE network consultants accessible online of any nationwide service firm in the U.S. The cost is competitive, charges are per minute, engagement is immediate, and service is world class.

In case your Louisiana organization is located away from larger urban neighborhoods such as New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Metairie, or Lafayette, support from authorized CCIE experts could be unavailable during an emergency. This can result in a loss of productivity for your company. By utilizing Progent's online services, you can get in touch with a CCIE engineer ready to provide the expertise to get your computer network running.

Why is Support from a CCIE-certified Consultant So Significant?
A CCIE is a world-class network professional who earns this ultimate certification by passing strenuous testing given by Cisco. CCIE-certified consultants can handle the most complicated issues surrounding network deployment, repair, and configuration. Progent’s CCIEs work closely with Cisco's in-house engineers in identifying problems with Cisco IOS utilities and coming up with temporary alternatives or downloading software updates to resolve problems. Most CCIEs are employed by large enterprises or national Internet providers, and so their skills are not readily accessible to small businesses.

For small and midsize companies in Louisiana, Progent can provide easy, quick, and cost-effective remote access to Cisco authorized CCIE consultants. CCIEs are highly-qualified networking experts who earn this prestigious certification only as a result of thorough testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to resolve the most complex problems surrounding network architecture, deployment, performance, troubleshooting, and support. Progent’s CCIE professionals work closely with Cisco engineers in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS software and devising workarounds or acquiring patches to resolve problems. Progent can provide fast online response from a CCIE so you are able to get immediate assistance for tough network problems that are affecting business productivity but are beyond the scope of your local IT service providers. Progent's CCIE consulting professionals can access your environment via state-of-the-art remote connectivity technology in order to provide rapid and cost-effective diagnosis and remediation of critical network problems.

How Progent's CCIEs Offer Help with Cisco Technology in Louisiana
Progent's CCIE network consultants provide high-level help 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 ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more performance than Cisco's previous firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for all new deployments. Since Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole line of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the market's most popular intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring powerful new features such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can assist your company to manage your existing PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide online and onsite support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your company to plan, integrate, optimize, manage and troubleshoot firewall solutions based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read additional details about ASA Next Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and debugging services.

Cisco Router Products
Progent's Cisco Premier engineers can help you to design, setup, and support an integrated network infrastructure that can streamline processes, lower costs, and speed up ROI. By combining Cisco integrated services routers with Cisco Catalyst switches support and Cisco Aironet indoor and outdoor APs integration support or Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs configuration support, Progent can significantly increase the business value of your connectivity environment in Louisiana. Progent offers comprehensive off-site help. To learn more about Progent's expertise in Cisco router solutions, refer to Cisco Routers Engineering Services.

Cisco Aironet and Meraki 802.11ac Wi-Fi Wireless Access Points and Wireless Network Controllers
Progent can provide a Cisco-certified Wi-Fi networking consultant to help your business to design, deploy, manage and repair a converged wired/wireless infrastructure incorporating a wide range of wireless products that provide the same security, extensibility, and manageability you expect from your wired network. Progent's Aironet Wireless Access Point consultants, Meraki Access Point consultants, and Cisco wireless controller experts can assist you to maintain early-generation Wi-Fi solutions from Cisco or migrate efficiently to the latest 802.11ac-comaptible products. Progent can also help you to carry out efficient Cisco wireless VoIP phone configuration with Cisco access points for mobile on-premises collaboration. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can advise you about how to build security into your wireless network and into your company's processes. Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants and business continuity planners can show you how to configure the high availability (HA) technology incorporated into Cisco's wireless and wired products so your converged infrastructure delivers continuing business value. Progent can provide economical remote and on-premises Wi-Fi site surveys to help you to design and deploy a wireless LAN with custom-designed access point clusters optimized for your specific office layout, building characteristics, and intended application.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone consultants can help you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP 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 HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist you to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Unified CM, originally branded CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express to create a an advanced 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, configuring SIP trunking, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and creating UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony systems for survivability.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM) and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), originally known as CallManager, is the foundation of Cisco's collaboration platform. Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Unified CM Express (CME) offer a modern IP-PBX by integrating closely with unified messaging applications like Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Connection for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for building a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's CCIE-certified CUCM consultants can assist with any aspect of Unified CM support and debugging in areas that include integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP trunking and PSTN calling, deploying ISR routers with CUBE support, designing Cisco UCS server clustering systems for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Cisco, Nexus and Meraki Switching Solutions
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers offer expert online and on-premises support and troubleshooting for Cisco's Catalyst, Nexus and Meraki families of fixed and modular switches for environments that range from small organizations and campus networks to enterprise data centers and ISPs. Progent can show you how to implement Cisco's continually evolving switch solutions to achieve the throughput, expandability, resilience, virtualization, security and ease of management required for your business. For information about Progent's consulting and support for Cisco's market-leading portfolio of Catalyst switches, refer to Cisco Catalyst switch support. For details about Progent's consulting and troubleshooting services for Cisco's Nexus family of data center switches, see Nexus switch consulting and support. For details about Progent's support services for Cisco Meraki switches, see Cisco Meraki switches integration.

Cisco Security and VPN Products
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to help you to select, deploy, and maintain Cisco security technology. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can advise you about how to build security into your company's processes in Louisiana and Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance consultants can help you to design and operate SIEM solutions that enable you to comply with governmental mandates for timely security incident reporting. Progent can help you to develop a documented security plan to define clear security policies, deploy monitoring and auditing utilities, design and implement a secure network infrastructure that includes technology from a variety of network companies, provide outgoing spam filtering with policy-based content filtering for incoming and outgoing email, and recommend procedures to maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security expertise can help you configure an ASA Next Generation firewall, design secure remote connectivity to messaging and corporate information, and install or repair VPNs. To read additional information concerning Progent's services for Cisco security and VPN technology, go to Cisco VPN and Network Security Professional Services.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk consultants and CUBE configuration consultants can help you to plan, deploy, manage, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE-based SIP trunks. Progent offers affordable remote or onsite expertise to assist businesses to move efficiently to a productive unified communications network that offers fast return on investment. Progent's certified Microsoft collaboration consultants can assist you to configure interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms such as Skype for Business Server and Lync for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Cisco-based Network Management
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants can assist you to utilize Cisco's network management utilities alongside a variety of powerful third-party applications to develop a complete network management toolkit to keep your infrastructure functioning dependably, conserve expensive resources, protect your data, recover rapidly from equipment failure or deliberates attacks, and allow you to expand or repurpose network resources intelligently and economically as your Louisiana organization grows.

Progent can also show you how to use network management applications to analyze and categorize network data to enable traffic shaping, which permits you to configure routers to impose different bandwidth constraints on certain classes of activity according to the importance you assign. By buffering and queuing excess packets above your contracted rates, and by giving priority to the most important processes, traffic shaping can keep service provider excess usage penalties from spinning out of control and/or avoid gaps in productivity resulting from indiscriminate enforcement of your network bandwidth limits during periods of heavy demand. To find out additional information concerning Progent's network management support services for Cisco-powered environments, see Network Management Engineers for Cisco-powered Environments.

NetApp and Cisco Cloud Architecture Consulting
FlexPod Datacenter is a best-practice cloud platform created and tested together by NetApp and Cisco to combine servers, network fabric and storage assets for hosting shared applications and network management software. To learn additional information concerning Progent's consulting services for NetApp and Cisco cloud solutions, go to NetApp and Cisco Private Cloud Platform Consulting.

How You Can Talk to a CCIE Networking Professional Immediately
To see how to get in touch with a Cisco certified CCIE for remote support in Louisiana, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Urgent Remote Network Support.