Small office IT networks situated anywhere in Michigan can now have instant remote contact with a Cisco authorized CCIE infrastructure consultant to fix urgent issues involving their network. Progent retains the most extensive team of CCIE consultants accessible online of any nationwide support organization in the U.S. The cost is competitive, billing is per minute, sign-up is immediate, and service is world class.

In case your Michigan small business is located beyond major urban neighborhoods such as Detroit, Grand Rapids, Warren, Sterling Heights, Flint, Lansing, or Ann Arbor, access to qualified CCIE engineers could be difficult to find when there's a crisis. This could mean lost revenue for your company. By calling Progent, you can get in touch with a CCIE professional who can offer the assistance to get your computer network on line.

What Makes Access to a CCIE-certified Consultant So Important?
A CCIE (Cisco Certified Internet Expert) is a top-level infrastructure engineer who earns this elite title by completing strenuous examinations administered by Cisco. CCIE-certified consultants can tackle even the most sophisticated issues surrounding computer network deployment, troubleshooting, and optimization. Progent’s CCIE-certified support specialists operate freely with Cisco's in-house engineers in identifying problems with IOS utilities and coming up with workarounds or finding program patches to correct problems. The vast majority of CCIEs are employed by large enterprises or nationwide ISPs, and so their skills are not readily accessible to small businesses.

For small and midsize companies anywhere in Michigan, Progent offers easy, fast, and economical online help from Cisco CCIE consultants. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) are elite network subject matter experts who are awarded this top-level classification only through strenuous examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle even the most complicated problems associated with network planning, implementation, optimization, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Progent’s CCIE professionals cooperate intimately with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing issues with Cisco's IOS platform and developing workarounds or obtaining patches to resolve problems. Progent can provide fast remote support from a CCIE so that you are able to receive timely help for tough network problems that are affecting worker productivity but are outside the expertise of your usual IT support providers. Progent's CCIE support professionals can link to your environment using state-of-the-art online support technology to deliver rapid and cost-effective analysis and remediation of critical network difficulties.

How Progent's Cisco Professionals Can Provide Help with Cisco Technology in Michigan
Progent's CCIE network consultants provide world-class assistance for a broad range of Cisco networking technologies including:

Cisco ASA 5500-X Next Generation Firewalls with Firepower and PIX 500 Security Appliances
The new Cisco ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services provide significantly more performance than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for new deployments. Following Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole family of ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to support Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the market's most deployed intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide enhanced features such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help you to maintain your legacy PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer remote and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your organization to plan, integrate, optimize, administer and troubleshoot firewall environments built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn additional details about ASA Next Generation Firewalls with Firepower integration and debugging support.

Cisco Routers
Progent's CCIE Premier engineers can help your company to design, configure, and maintain an integrated business network that can simplify operations, reduce expenses, and accelerate you return on investment. By combining Cisco routers with Catalyst switches support and Aironet APs integration support or Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs setup support, Progent can dramatically enhance the business value of your information network in Michigan. Progent offers comprehensive phone-based support. To see more about Progent's services for Cisco router products, refer to Cisco Routers Consulting Services.

Cisco Aironet and Meraki 802.11ac Access Points and Wireless Network Controllers
Progent can provide the services of a Cisco-certified Wi-Fi networking consulting professional to assist your business to plan, deploy, manage and repair a converged wired and wireless infrastructure incorporating a wide array of wireless devices that offer the same security, scalability, and ease of management you demand from your wired network. Progent's Aironet Access Point consultants, Meraki Access Point specialists, and Cisco wireless controller experts can assist you to manage legacy Wi-Fi products from Cisco or migrate efficiently to current 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology. Progent can also help you to carry out efficient Cisco wireless VoIP phone configuration with Aironet and Meraki APs for mobile onsite collaboration. Progent's CISM and CISSP security specialists can advise you about how to build security into your wireless network and into your company's operations. Progent's disaster recovery consultants and business continuity planners can help you to configure the high availability (HA) technology incorporated into Cisco's wireless and wired technologies so your converged network delivers non-stop return on investment. Progent can provide economical online and on-premises Wi-Fi site surveys to assist your company to design and deploy a Wi-Fi network with custom-designed access point clustering optimized for your specific work area layout, building characteristics, and intended application.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist your business to integrate, maintain, and debug Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the newest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally known as CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express to create a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent can deliver expertise with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP gateways, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for survivability.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), formerly named CallManager, functions as the foundation of Cisco's collaboration platform. Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified CM Express provide a location-independent IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with applications like Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unity Connection for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for creating an advanced customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified Cisco Unified CM consultants can assist with any facet of Unified CM setup and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Cisco Voice over IP phones and desktop video phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN calling, installing ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating Cisco UCS server failover systems for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server and Skype for Business.

Catalyst, Nexus and Meraki Switches
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can provide world-class online and on-premises consulting for Cisco's Catalyst, Nexus and Meraki families of managed switches for environments that range from small or midsize businesses and campus LANs to giant data centers and service providers. Progent can show you how to implement Cisco's rapidly evolving switch technology to achieve the speed, scale, resilience, virtualization, data protection and ease of management needed by your business. For information about Progent's consulting and troubleshooting services for Cisco's extensive family of Catalyst switches, refer to Cisco Catalyst switch consulting services. To find out about Progent's consulting and support for Cisco's Nexus family of switches, see Cisco Nexus switch consulting and support services. For details about Progent's support services for Cisco Meraki switches, see Meraki switches consulting services.

Cisco Security and VPN Technology
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to choose, integrate, and maintain Cisco security technology. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security consultants can advise you about how to design security into your company's operations in Michigan and Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance experts can help you to plan and maintain SIEM solutions that enable you to comply with regulatory mandates for security incident reporting. Progent can assist you to develop a documented security strategy to establish precise security policies, install scanning and tracking utilities, create and implement a secure network infrastructure that incorporates technology from diverse network companies, offer outbound spam filtering with content filtering for incoming and outgoing email, and advise you about procedures to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security expertise is available to help you implement an ASA Next Generation firewall, set up secure remote access to email and corporate information, and install or repair VPNs. To read additional information concerning Progent's support for Cisco security solutions, see Cisco VPN and Protection Consulting Services.

Cisco SIP Infrastructure Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and Cisco CUBE Configuration Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure experts and CUBE integration experts can help you to design, integrate, maintain, debug and enhance Cisco's SIP infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE-based IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers affordable remote or onsite support to help companies to move smoothly to a modern unified communications network that offers accelerated return on investment. Progent's certified Microsoft collaboration consultants can assist you to establish connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms like Skype for Business or Lync for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Cisco-based Network Management
Progent's Cisco-Premier network management consultants can help you to utilize Cisco's management utilities in combination with a variety of effective open source and proprietary applications to create a comprehensive network management toolkit to keep your network running smoothly, conserve expensive resources, secure your data, recover quickly from equipment failure or deliberates attacks, and allow you to expand or repurpose network hardware intelligently and economically as your Michigan organization grows.

Progent can also help you to use network management tools to monitor and classify system data to enable traffic shaping, which allows you to set up routers to impose different throughput constraints on designated classes of activity according to the importance you specify. By buffering and sorting data packets that exceed your contracted volume, and by assigning preference to the most important processes, traffic shaping can prevent Internet Service Provider excess usage charges from spinning out of reach and/or avoid lost worker productivity resulting from brute force policing of your network bandwidth restrictions during peak demand. To learn more about Progent's network management consulting expertise for Cisco-powered networks, visit Network Management Solutions for Cisco-powered Networks.

NetApp and Cisco Cloud Platform Consulting
FlexPod is a best-practice private cloud platform developed and validated jointly by NetApp and Cisco to consolidate servers, network fabric and SAN storage assets for hosting shared applications and network management tools. To learn more details about Progent's consulting support for NetApp and Cisco FlexPod private clouds solutions, visit NetApp and Cisco Cloud Architecture Consulting Services.

How You Can Talk to a Certified CCIE Network Engineer Now
To learn how to get in touch with a Cisco CCIE for remote help in Michigan, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Urgent Remote Network Help.