New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco announced innovative solutions intended especially for small company IT networks and engineered to provide high levels of security and collaboration at a budget-friendly cost. Products introduced by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, Cisco's Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the 1.4 version of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a purpose-built email security device that virtually eradicates email attacks right out of the box. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop network-attached storage devices that offer protection for important data and allow employees to access shared information effortlessly. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4, a full collaboration and communications solution that seamlessly interconnects offices, employees, and clients anywhere. Cisco's current version incorporates the debut of a wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth support. To read Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Announces Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker protects small businesses by offering powerful protection against junk mail, viruses and other email threats to secure your system and corporate information while at the same time improve efficiency. Because the product stops spam and viruses with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it eliminates the cost and hassle with initial configuration and ongoing and administration. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker increases the performance of networks, servers, and workstations. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a comprehensive defense against email-born attacks by featuring hardware, intelligent software, continuous updates, and product assistance in a unified bundle.

Notable benefits of the Spam Blocker are:

• Precision: Assists to ensure that email threats and junk mail are intercepted and legitimate messages are accepted.
• Continuous self-installed patches: Constant interaction with SenderBase security, a network library of email safety risks, ensures that your Spam & Virus Blocker appliance installs the latest updates to guard your business email.
• Easy setup and use: Easy-to-use browser-based installation wizards allow you to install the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in nearly any network in 15 minutes, delivering immediate protection for your business.
• Streamlined management: From the moment your company installs the the Spam and Virus Blocker, you get junk mail and malware filtering with minimal additional effort required from your IT staff.

NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the dependable protection and comprehensive backup features that your business requires, at a price small companies can handle. The NSS3000 accommodates up to 4 terabytes of data and up to 15 simultaneous clients on each enclosure, offering the optimal solution for storing, sharing, and archiving your mission-critical business information. As distinct from less sophisticated network-attached storage alternatives, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 provides the advanced backup, encryption, client validation, and high uptime your organization requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis handles any certified hard drive. The product offers a range of features in a desktop-size system designed for small businesses. The NSS3000 Storage System enclosure also offers your company the flexibility to configure the product without any attached hard disks, to modify the product at any time, and to chain multiple NAS chassis together, providing a solution that can continually grow with your business.

Your company can use the Cisco NSS2000 or 3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Intelligently back up important information from every PC and application server in your company
• Provide unified preservation and sharing of important files
• Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy unattended each version of each file saved by employees, allowing you to recover data with ease
• Store and archive digital video from your company's surveillance cameras

Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4 is an easy-to-manage and complete collaboration and communications solution that permits small organizations to interconnect telecommuters, mobile workers and employees in disparate sites to enhance their options to collaborate with customers and colleagues. In the new release, the aggressively priced system has improved wireless capabilities including the first wireless desktop IP handset with Bluetooth technology, the SPA525G wireless IP device, which enables companies to grow cost-effectively by deploying phones in locations where conventional telephone wires or Ethernet wiring is not present or cannot easily be run.

Additional new components of the Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4 are:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router to help protect a small business infrastructure and give workers secure access to the Internet and key business information from either side of the firewall
• The Configuration Assistant v. 1.9 to allow partners to simplify the configuration and deployment of solutions designed specifically for certain businesses

How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Help Your Business to Benefit from Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco support professionals and CCIE accredited network engineers can help you to assess the latest Cisco technologies to determine their business value for your environment, set up Cisco appliances to enhance the security and efficiency of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco products both in person and remotely to keep your IT network running dependably. Progent's consulting experts can provide a variety of affordable technical services to enhance the reliability, protection, speed, and manageability of your company's IT network:

Immediate Access to Cisco CCIE Certified Network Engineers
Progent is the premier provider of easy, quick, and cost-effective access to Cisco CCIE engineers. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are elite network gurus who are awarded this top-level certification only through intense testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to tackle even the most complicated issues associated with network infrastructure planning, configuration, troubleshooting, and administration. Progent's CCIE consultants work intimately with Cisco engineers in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS platform and devising workarounds or acquiring software updates to correct anomalies. Progent offers quick access to a CCIE by telephone so you can get instant help for tough network troubles that are affecting worker efficiency but are outside the expertise of your usual network service providers. Progent's CCIE consulting professionals can access your network using state-of-the-art off-site connectivity tools in order to deliver fast and cost-effective analysis and remediation of critical infrastructure difficulties.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone consultants can help you to configure, maintain, and debug Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued Voice over IP devices to the latest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist you to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, originally named CallManager, or with Cisco Unified CM Express to build a modern IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP trunking, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking support, and creating Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) solutions for survivability. For more details about Progent's technical support for Cisco's collaboration solutions, visit Cisco Voice over IP and Unified Communications Professional Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly known as CallManager, operates as the foundation of Cisco's communications and collaboration portfolio. Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) provide a modern IP-PBX solution by integrating tightly with apps such as Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Unity Connection for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) for creating a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM experts can help with any facet of Unified CM setup and troubleshooting in areas that include integrating Cisco VoIP phones and desktop video phones, designing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN calling, deploying ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating UCS server clustering systems for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Support
Progent's certified Cisco network security consulting professionals offer expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support including infrastructure design, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and secure access services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home businesses to modular enterprise-level products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of protection, performance, and high reliability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built platform, minimizing common OS-specific security gaps.

Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-premier security consultants can provide a variety of budget-friendly security Inventory packages and network security assessment service packages designed to offer businesses of all sizes an opportunity to receive an objective look at the effectiveness of their protection environment. These packages vary from low-cost external security scan and internal network security scan packages for small companies up to a high-level security assessment package for enterprises who need comply with security levels required by government regulators or by vendors. For each security assessment bundle, engineers with top security credentials analyze and summarize scanned information and provide suggestions for efficient improvements.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure consultants and CUBE integration consultants can help your business to plan, integrate, manage, debug and upgrade Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide affordable remote or on-premises expertise to assist companies to migrate smoothly to a productive unified communications ecosystem that offers accelerated return on investment. Progent's certified Microsoft unified communications experts can assist you to configure interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media applications like Skype for Business and Lync for connectivity to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Infrastructure
Progent can provide a certified CCIE or certified CCNP to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation plan that incorporates a wide array of wireless products and technologies and offers the same protection, expandability, and manageability you demand from your wired network. Progent can assist you to implement seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless devices and software from third-party suppliers to give your company the functionality you require plus the most protected, reliable, and economical WLAN solution possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can show you how to design protection into your WLAN and into your company's operations.

Automated Management Solutions for Cisco-powered IT Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network consultants offer assistance with Cisco's management utilities alongside a range of powerful third-party applications to create a comprehensive network management solution in order to keep your network operating smoothly, conserve expensive resources, guard your information, revive rapidly from device failure or deliberate assaults, and allow you to expand or reassign valuable resources sensibly and affordably as your business evolves.

To find out additional information about Progent's consulting support for Cisco networking and communications technology, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.