Small business networks situated anywhere in the state of Louisiana can rely on immediate remote contact with a Cisco qualified CCIE network system professional to fix the toughest problems affecting their computer network. Progent maintains the most extensive group of CCIE consulting experts accessible online of any independent support organization in the country. The cost is affordable, billing is by the minute, engagement is fast, and support is unbeatable.

In case your Louisiana company is outside of major metropolitan neighborhoods such as New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Metairie, or Lafayette, support from qualified CCIE experts is often difficult to find during an emergency. This can cause a drop in revenue for your company. By contacting Progent, you can get in touch with a CCIE professional ready to provide the expertise to get your computer network running.

Why is Access to a Cisco CCIE So Significant?
A CCIE (Cisco Certified Internet Expert) is a world-class network specialist who earns this elite recognition only after rigorous testing supervised by Cisco. CCIE-qualified engineers can handle the most sophisticated issues associated with network integration, troubleshooting, and configuration. Progent’s CCIEs communicate directly with Cisco's internal engineers in identifying issues with Cisco IOS software and developing temporary alternatives or obtaining program updates to fix problems. Most CCIEs are employed by large enterprises or nationwide Internet providers, and so their help is not easily available to small businesses.

For companies anywhere in Louisiana, Progent offers easy, fast, and affordable online access to Cisco certified CCIE consultants. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) are recognized network gurus who earn this top-level classification only after intense testing by Cisco. CCIEs can handle the most complex problems surrounding network planning, setup, capacity, repair, and service. Progent’s CCIE professionals work closely with Cisco engineers in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS platform and developing fixes or obtaining software updates to resolve problems. Progent offers fast online access to a CCIE so you can get immediate assistance for tough network issues that are impacting business efficiency but are beyond the scope of your usual IT support providers. Progent's CCIE support professionals can link to your environment using advanced remote support technology in order to provide quick and cost-effective analysis and remediation of urgent network difficulties.

Ways Progent's Cisco Qualified CCIEs Can Provide Expertise with Cisco Technology in Louisiana
Progent's Cisco-certified experts provide world-class help for a broad range of Cisco networking technologies such as:

Cisco ASA 5500-X Next Generation Firewalls with Firepower and PIX 500 Security Appliances
The new Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more value than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for all new installations. Since Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire line of ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most deployed intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring powerful new capabilities 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 manage your legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide online and on-premises support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your business to plan, integrate, tune, administer and debug firewall environments based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Find out additional details about ASA 5500-X Next Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services integration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Router Products
Progent's CCIE and CCNP Premier consultants can help your business to plan, setup, and support a converged business network that can streamline operations, lower costs, and accelerate you return on investment. By teaming Cisco integrated services routers with Cisco Catalyst switches expertise and Aironet indoor and outdoor APs integration support or Meraki cloud-managed APs setup services, Progent can significantly increase the business value of your network infrastructure in Louisiana. Progent offers comprehensive online help. To see more about Progent's services for Cisco routers, visit Cisco Routers Professional Services.

Aironet and Meraki 802.11ac Wireless Access Points and Wireless Network Controllers
Progent can provide access to a Cisco-certified Wi-Fi integration consulting professional to assist you to plan, install, maintain and troubleshoot a converged wired/wireless ecosystem integrating a wide range of wireless technologies that provide the same security, expandability, and ease of management you demand from a wired network. Progent's Aironet Access Point consultants, Meraki Wi-Fi AP consultants, and Cisco WiFi controller experts can help you to maintain early-generation Wi-Fi products from Cisco or upgrade efficiently to current 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology. Progent can also assist you to perform efficient Cisco wireless IP phone integration with Cisco access points for mobile on-premises collaboration. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security professionals can advise you about how to build security into your WLAN and into your company's processes. Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants and business continuity planners can assist you to configure the HA features incorporated into Cisco's wireless and wired products so your converged infrastructure provides non-stop business value. Progent can provide economical remote and onsite wireless site surveys to help you to plan and install a wireless network with customized wireless access point clusters optimized for your individual office layout, building characteristics, and intended application.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco VoIP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist you to configure, manage, and debug Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued Voice over IP products to the latest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly branded CallManager, or with Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) to build a an advanced IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can deliver support with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, installing ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) solutions for high availability.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM) and CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly named CallManager, acts as the heart of Cisco's collaboration portfolio. Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) offer a borderless IP-PBX solution by integrating with unified messaging apps such as Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can assist with any facet of Unified Communications Manager setup and debugging in areas that include integrating Cisco VoIP phones and video phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN calling, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE networking support, designing UCS server clustering solutions for high availability, and integration with Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco, Nexus and Meraki Switching Solutions
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified network technology engineers can provide world-class online and onsite consulting and technical support for Cisco's Catalyst, Nexus and Meraki families of fixed and modular switches for environments that range from small organizations and campus LANs to enterprise data centers and public clouds. Progent can assist you to implement Cisco's quickly improving switching technology to realize the performance, expandability, resilience, virtualization support, data protection and ease of management required for your organization. To learn about Progent's consulting services for Cisco's market-leading family of Catalyst switches, see Catalyst switch consulting and support. For details about Progent's consulting and support for Cisco's Nexus family of data center switches, refer to Cisco Nexus switch consulting and support services. To find out about Progent's support services for Meraki switches, go to Cisco Meraki switches consulting services.

Cisco Security Products
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or certified CCNP to assist you to select, integrate, and support Cisco security technology. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security consultants can advise you about how to build security into your company's processes in Louisiana and Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance experts can help you to design and maintain Security information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions that enable you to stay compliant with governmental mandates for timely incident reporting. Progent can help you to create a written security strategy to define clear policies, install scanning and auditing software, design and install a secure network infrastructure that incorporates technology from diverse network companies, offer outgoing spam filtering with policy-based content filtering for incoming and outgoing email, and recommend steps to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security expertise can help you configure an firewall, design safe remote and mobile access to messaging and business information, and install or troubleshoot Virtual Private Networks. To read additional information concerning Progent's services for Cisco security technology, see Cisco Security and VPN Engineering Support.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk experts and CUBE configuration experts can help you to design, integrate, manage, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide affordable online or on-premises support to help businesses to migrate smoothly to a modern unified communications environment that offers fast return on investment. Progent's certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to configure connections between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's rich media applications such as Skype for Business Server and Lync for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Cisco-based Network Management
Progent's Cisco-Premier network engineers can help you to utilize Cisco's management tools alongside an array of powerful third-party applications to create a complete management toolkit to keep your infrastructure running dependably, consolidate expensive resources, protect your information, recover rapidly from equipment breakdowns or deliberates assaults, and allow you to scale or reassign network resources intelligently and economically as your Louisiana organization evolves.

Progent can also help you to utilize network management tools to monitor and classify system data to enable traffic shaping, which permits you to program routers to enforce different throughput constraints on certain classes of activity based on the priorities you specify. By storing and queuing data packets that exceed your contracted rates, and by assigning priority to business-critical processes, traffic shaping can keep ISP overage penalties from spinning out of control and/or eliminate lost productivity caused by brute force enforcement of your network traffic volume restrictions during peak use. To find out additional information concerning Progent's network management consulting expertise for Cisco environments, see Network Management Help for Cisco-powered Networks.

NetApp and Cisco Cloud Platform Consulting Services
FlexPod is a best-practice cloud architecture created and validated jointly by NetApp and Cisco to combine servers, network infrastructure and storage resources for hosting critical applications and management tools. To find out more details about Progent's consulting support for NetApp and Cisco FlexPod private clouds integration, see NetApp and Cisco FlexPod Cloud Architecture Consulting.

How to Talk to a Certified CCIE Network Engineer Now
To see how to contact a Cisco certified CCIE for online expertise in Louisiana, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Urgent Remote Computer Support.