New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Cisco unveiled innovative products targeted specifically for small company networks and designed to provide outstanding security and connectivity at a budget-friendly price. Products announced by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest release of the Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam Blocker is a dedicated email security device that virtually eliminates email threats with no set up. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint NAS devices that offer security for important information and allow employees to exchange files easily. Cisco's SBCS Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications system that easily connects offices, workers, and customers anywhere. Cisco's latest release incorporates the industry's first wireless desktop Internet Protocol (IP) phone with Bluetooth wireless capabilities. To view Cisco's news release, refer to Cisco Introduces Networking Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker safeguards small organizations by providing powerful defense against junk mail, viruses and worms and other email-borne threats to guard your system and corporate data while at the same time improve efficiency. Because the product blocks spam and viruses right out of the box and stays current automatically, it does away with the cost and hassle with initial configuration and continuing and management. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the throughput of networks, servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance represents an end-to-end solution email-born attacks by featuring a physical appliance, software, ongoing patches, and technical support in a single package.

Notable benefits of Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance include:

• Precision: Assists to make sure that email threats and spam are caught while legitimate messages are accepted.
• Ongoing automatic updates: Non-stop interaction with SenderBase security, a network database of email safety threats, ensures that your Cisco Spam Blocker appliance installs the latest patches to safequard your corporate email.
• Easy setup and use: Easy-to-use web-based setup tools allow you to configure the Spam Blocker in nearly any environment within minutes, delivering instant protection for your network.
• Streamlined administration: From the moment your company deploys the the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance, you benefit from spam and malware protection with no additional effort required from your network support staff.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 provide the dependable protection and comprehensive data backup features that your business needs, at a price small organizations can afford. The Small Business NSS3000 supports up to 4 terabytes of data and up to 15 concurrent clients per enclosure, provides the optimal answer for holding, accessing, and backing up your mission-critical corporate data. Unlike less advanced network-attached storage alternatives, the Cisco Small Business NSS3000 provides the advanced archiving, cryptography, user validation, and fault tolerance your organization needs.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage enclosure supports any approved hard disk. The chassis offers a wealth of capabilities in a desktop-size system engineered for small companies. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Storage enclosure also provides your company the versatility to configure the product without any attached disk drives, to reconfigure it at any time, and to chain several NAS chassis together, offering a platform that can continually grow with your business.

Your business can use the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or NSS3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Intelligently back up vital information from every PC and server in your business
• Provide unified storage and distribution of key files
• Employ Continuous Data Protection to back up automatically each revision of every file archived by workers, allowing your company to recover files easily
• Store and archive digital video from your video surveillance cameras

Cisco SBCS
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is a simple and complete collaboration and communications system that permits small businesses to interconnect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and employees in separate sites to improve their options to interact with customers and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable system has improved wireless support such as the industry's first wireless desktop IP handset with Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G IP device, which enables businesses to expand cost-effectively by deploying phones in places where traditional telephone lines or network wiring is missing or cannot conveniently be added.

Additional innovative pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System 1.4 version include:

• The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router product to help protect the company's infrastructure and give employees safe connectivity to the Internet and key business data any time, anywhere
• The Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to permit partners to streamline the configuration and deployment of solutions created specifically for individual businesses

How Progent's Certified Engineers Can Help Your Company to Get the Most Out of Cisco Networking Solutions
Progent's Cisco consultants and CCIE engineers can help you to assess new Cisco technologies to determine their appropriateness for your IT system, set up Cisco security and communication platforms to improve the protection and efficiency of your network, and provide tech support for Cisco products both onsite and remotely to keep your IT network operating dependably. Progent's consulting experts can provide a range of affordable support services to enhance the availability, safety, speed, and maintainability of your information network:

Quick Online Access to Cisco CCIE Network Engineers
Progent is the leading source of convenient, quick, and affordable assistance from CCIE Certified consultants. CCIEs are recognized network experts who earn this top-level classification only through thorough testing by Cisco. CCIEs can tackle the most sophisticated problems encountered with network infrastructure architecture, implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Progent's CCIE experts cooperate closely with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS platform and finding workarounds or obtaining software updates to resolve anomalies. Progent your company quick access to a CCIE by phone so you can receive urgent help for tough network troubles that are affecting worker productivity but are beyond the expertise of your local network support providers. Progent's CCIE support engineers can access your network via advanced remote support technology in order to deliver timely and cost-effective diagnosis and remediation of urgent infrastructure difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Integration
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone experts can assist you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide support for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP products to the newest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, formerly known as CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to build a an advanced IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver expertise with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, configuring SIP gateways, installing ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony solutions for high availability. For additional information on Progent's support for Cisco's Unified Communications technology, read Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Consulting Help.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM), formerly named CallManager, operates as the foundation of Cisco's collaboration solution. Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified CM Express provide an advanced IP-PBX solution by integrating closely with apps that include Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Unity Express for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for building an advanced customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified Cisco Unified CM experts can help with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager support and debugging in areas such as integrating Voice over IP phones and video phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN calling, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE networking support, designing UCS server failover solutions for high availability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Support
Progent's experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals provide expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall engineering services including infrastructure design, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and secure access services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced protection, high throughput, and high availability for network environments of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built platform, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Audit Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-premier security consultants can provide a variety of cost-effective security Inventory packages and network security evaluation service packages designed to give businesses of all sizes a chance to receive an impartial opinion about the strength of their security profile. These packages vary from low-cost external security scan and internal security scan options for small and midsize companies up to a high-level security assessment solution for institutions who have to meet security levels required by state regulators or by customers. For each security assessment bundle, consultants with high-level security accreditations evaluate and summarize collected data and provide suggestions for effective improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk consultants and CUBE integration experts can help organizations of any size to design, integrate, maintain, troubleshoot and upgrade Cisco's SIP connectivity solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based SIP trunks. Progent offers cost-effective online or onsite support to assist companies to move smoothly to an advanced communications environment that delivers fast return on investment. Progent's certified Microsoft collaboration experts can assist you to set up interfaces between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media platforms such as Skype for Business Server or Lync Server for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a broad array of wireless products and technologies and offers the identical protection, scalability, and ease of management you demand from a wired environment. Progent can assist you to achieve transparent integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless devices and software from third-party suppliers to give your company the functionality you require as well as the most secure, reliable, and economical WLAN solution possible. Progent's CISM, CISSP, and ISSAP security specialists can show you how to build protection into your wireless network and into your company's operations.

Simplified Administration Tools for Cisco-based Small Business Networks
Progent's Cisco-Certified network consultants can provide assistance with Cisco's network management tools alongside a selection of powerful third-party products to create a comprehensive network management solution to keep your network running smoothly, conserve expensive resources, protect your data, revive rapidly from hardware breakdown or malicious assaults, and allow you to expand or repurpose valuable resources sensibly and affordably as your company evolves.

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