Expanding your remote workforce can have a major impact on network architecture, security/compliance, and corporate workflows. Progent has 20 years of background helping businesses of all sizes to plan, deploy, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that support work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Santa Monica organization to pick the right technologies and follow best practices in creating and operating a secure virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and returns maximum business value. Progent can provide services that go from on demand guidance for getting you past occasional technical bottlenecks to full project management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.

Progent can assist Santa Monica, California businesses to with any aspect of building a high-performing telecommuting environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, helpdesk outsourcing, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Network Infrastructure for an At-Home Workforce
Configuring the network infrastructure required for a remote work environment can be particularly complicated if you have to accommodate a combination of worker-owned hardware such as PCs and notebooks, Internet routers, and wireless appliances from an assortment of vendors and with a mix of operating systems and firmware releases. Progent's experience providing remote support for both outdated and current IT products in remote office venues allows you to make efficient use of your existing network infrastructure and offers ready access to expertise for making necessary upgrades. Support services offered by Progent to help your company to create a high-functioning work-at-home infrastructure include:

  • Virtual Private Network technology allows you to establish a safe tunnel for authenticated at-home workers to access IT assets situated 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 various IT resources by providing online VPN configuration consulting. For businesses with Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco ASA Firewall experts can help your telecommuters to utilize Cisco's popular AnyConnect client software to provide safe VPN connections for a broad range of endpoint devices such as Microsoft Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platforms allow a teleworker to view and interact with a data center computer's desktop. This provides network managers more control over the digital environment of at-home employees and ensures remote users a consistent and more productive experience. Progent's VDI services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI expertise.
  • Routers connect at-home networks to the Internet and support VPN connections, home wireless connectivity, and firewall services. Progent offers expert online support for configuring routers from a range of manufacturers. See router integration services from Cisco-certified experts.
  • Home Wi-Fi networks, often shared by families and visitors, are frequently used by telecommuters to access their Internet router for work. This can create throughput as well as security issues. Progent can help you to resolve these problems by delivering expertise that include Aironet configuration expertise, Cisco Meraki WiFi installation expertise, and Ubiquiti Unifi wireless access point integration help.
  • Internet access methods impact the speed and availability of connections between at-home workers and the company network. Business-critical processes may require redundant Internet connections in the event the normal connection fails. Progent offers guidance for picking Internet service providers, picking sensible bandwidth and data volume offerings, and integrating high-availability Internet connections. See Internet access integration services.

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and maintaining an efficient work-from-home solution for your Santa Monica, California organization, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.