Enlarging your at-home workforce may have a significant impact on network infrastructure, security/compliance, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of experience assisting small and mid-size businesses to design, deploy, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that support a remote workforce. Progent can help your Leeds organization to select the appropriate tools and follow best practices in building and operating a secure virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and delivers top value. Progent offers support services ranging from on demand guidance for helping you past challenging IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can help Leeds, United Kingdom businesses to succeed with any aspect of building a high-performing remote work ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, helpdesk services, cybersecurity, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Infrastructure for an At-Home Workforce
Integrating the physical and software infrastructure needed for an at-home workforce can be especially complicated if you must manage a combination of personal hardware like PCs and laptops, routers, and wireless APs from an assortment of manufacturers and with a variety of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's experience providing remote help for both outdated and current technologies in virtual office venues allows you to make cost-effective use of your available infrastructure and provides you with fast access to top-tire consultants for making necessary updates. Services offered by Progent to assist your company to create a productive telecommuting infrastructure include:
- Virtual Private Network connectivity makes it possible to create a safe connection for authorized remote employees to access IT assets located at your corporate data center or in a public cloud. Progent can help your company to deploy and manage VPN access between your teleworkers and your key network resources by providing remote VPN configuration consulting. For organizations with Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco ASA consultants can help your remote workers to utilize Cisco's popular AnyConnect software to provide safe VPN connections for a broad range of endpoint devices such as Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure products enable a teleworker to see and use a data center computer's desktop. This provides network managers significant control over the computing ecosystem of at-home employees and offers them a consistent and more productive experience. Progent's virtual desktop services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI expertise.
- Routers connect home networks to the Internet and typically support VPN tunnels, local Wi-Fi connectivity, and firewall services. Progent offers expert remote support for setting up home routers from a range of manufacturers. See router integration support from Cisco-certified experts.
- Home Wireless networks, often supporting the whole family and guests, are frequently used by telecommuters to access their router for work. This can create performance as well as security problems. Progent can assist businesses to mitigate these problems by providing expertise like Cisco Aironet integration consulting, Cisco-certified Meraki wireless installation consulting, and Ubiquiti WiFi AP integration assistance.
- Internet connectivity solutions impact the performance and availability of connections between at-home workers and the company data center. Vital applications may demand backup Internet access in case the primary connection breaks. Progent offers expertise for picking Internet service providers, choosing appropriate service bundles, and configuring high-availability Internet access. Refer to Internet connectivity solutions.
Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about building and maintaining a productive telecommuter solution for your Leeds, United Kingdom organization, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.