Enlarging your telecommuter workforce may have a major effect on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of experience helping SMBs to design, deploy, manage, tune, and debug IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Philadelphia company to pick the right tools and adhere to best practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and delivers top business value. Progent can provide services ranging from on demand expertise for helping you over occasional technical roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can help Philadelphia, Pennsylvania businesses to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-performing remote work environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, helpdesk outsourcing, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Infrastructure for an At-Home Workforce
Integrating the physical and software infrastructure needed to support a remote workforce can be particularly complex if you must manage a mix of personal equipment like desktop computers and notebooks, routers, and wireless APs from various vendors and with a variety of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's background providing remote help for both legacy as well as current IT products in virtual office venues enables you to make efficient use of your existing infrastructure and provides you with fast access to top-tire consultants for making necessary updates. Support services available from Progent to assist you to implement a high-functioning telecommuting infrastructure include:

  • Virtual Private Network connectivity makes it possible to create a safe connection for authenticated at-home workers to access IT assets situated at your corporate data center or in a public cloud. Progent can help you to deploy and maintain VPN connections between your teleworkers and your various IT resources by providing online VPN integration consulting. For businesses with Cisco's ASA firewalls, Progent's Cisco-certified ASA consultants can assist your at-home workers to set up Cisco's AnyConnect software for secure VPN connections for a broad range of endpoint devices including Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure products allow an at-home worker to see and interact with a remote computer's desktop. This gives network managers more control over the computing ecosystem of at-home employees and offers them a familiar experience. Progent's VDI services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI expertise.
  • Routers connect home networks to the Internet and support VPN tunnels, local Wi-Fi connectivity, and firewalls. Progent can provide expert online consulting for configuring home routers from all major manufacturers. See router configuration services from Cisco-certified experts.
  • Home Wireless networks, typically shared by the whole family and visitors, are commonly used by telecommuters to connect to their Internet router for work. This can cause throughput as well as cybersecurity issues. Progent can assist you to mitigate these problems by providing services like Aironet integration consulting, Cisco Meraki WiFi deployment consulting, and Ubiquiti WiFi AP integration help.
  • Internet access solutions impact the performance and availability of connections between at-home workers and the company network. Mission-critical processes might require backup Internet connections in case the normal connection breaks. Progent can provide expertise for selecting service providers, choosing appropriate bandwidth and data volume offerings, and integrating fault-tolerant Internet connections. Refer to Internet connectivity integration services.

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
To contact Progent about building and managing a productive work-from-home solution for your Philadelphia, Pennsylvania company, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.