New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Cisco announced new solutions intended specifically for small company networks and engineered to deliver outstanding protection and collaboration for an affordable cost. Products introduced by Cisco included Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest release of the SBCS.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a purpose-built spam, virus, and phishing filter security product that virtually eradicates email attacks with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable small-footprint network-attached storage appliances that offer protection for important information and allow workers to share information effortlessly. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4, a complete sharing and communications system that seamlessly connects sites, employees, and customers however dispersed. Cisco's latest version incorporates the first cordless small-footprint IP handset with Bluetooth support. To view Cisco's press release, visit Cisco Unveils Connectivity and Collaboration Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam Blocker appliance safeguards small businesses by providing extensive defense against junk mail, viruses as well as other email-borne attacks to guard your system and business information and simultaneously improve efficiency. Because the product blocks spam and viruses right out of the box and updates on its own, it eliminates the cost and hassle associated setup and ongoing and administration. By filtering out unwanted email, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker increases the throughput of network connections, servers, and computers. The Spam and Virus Blocker is a comprehensive defense against email attacks by including hardware, intelligent software, continuous patches, and technical assistance in a unified bundle.

Notable benefits of the Spam Blocker appliance include:

• Efficiency: Assists to make sure that email-borne attacks and junk mail are intercepted and legitimate email is delivered.
• Continuous automatic patches: Non-stop communication with SenderBase security, a network library of email safety threats, ensures that the Cisco Spam Blocker installs the latest patches to safequard your business email.
• Simple installation and operation: Easy-to-use browser-based installation tools allow you to configure the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in almost any network in minutes, delivering instant security for your business.
• Effortless administration: As soon as you deploys the Cisco's Spam Blocker, you benefit from spam and virus filtering with minimal extra effort demanded from your network support group.

Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems provide the robust security and advanced backup capabilities that your company needs, at a price small organizations can handle. The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 accommodates up to four TB of data and as many as 15 concurrent clients on each chassis, offering the optimal answer for holding, sharing, and archiving your mission-critical corporate data. As distinct from entry-level network-attached storage (NAS) alternatives, the NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art backup, encryption, user validation, and high availability your company requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 4-Bay Gigabit Storage Chassis handles any certified disk. The product provides a range of features in a desktop-size form factor engineered specifically for small organizations. The NSS3000 Storage System Chassis also offers you the versatility to deploy the product without any connected disk drives, to modify it easily, and to chain several Cisco NAS chassis together, offering a platform that can continually expand with your company.

You can utilize the Small Business NSS2000 or NSS3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Automatically back up important information from each workstation and server in your business
• Offer centralized storage and distribution of important information
• Employ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy automatically every revision of every file archived by employees, allowing your business to restore data with ease
• Store and save digital video from your surveillance system

Cisco SBCS
The Cisco SBCS Version 1.4 is a simple and complete collaboration and communications solution that allows small companies to interconnect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and office workers in separate sites to improve their ability to interact with customers and teammates. In Release 1.4, the affordable system offers improved wireless capabilities such as the first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth technology, the SPA525G wireless IP phone, which allows companies to grow cost-effectively by adding phones in locations where conventional telephone wires or Ethernet wiring is missing or cannot conveniently be added.

Other innovative pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) 1.4 version are:

• Cisco's Model 520 Secure Router product to help guard the company's network and give employees secure access to the Internet and important corporate information wherever they are
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Release 1.9 to allow partners to streamline the configuration and deployment of solutions designed specifically for individual companies

How Progent's Cisco-certified Engineers Can Assist Your Company to Take Advantage of Cisco Networking Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified support professionals and CCIE engineers can help you to assess the latest Cisco technologies to determine their business value for your IT system, configure Cisco appliances to improve the protection and efficiency of your information network, and maintain Cisco devices both onsite and remotely to keep your network running smoothly. Progent's consultants can provide a variety of low-cost services to enhance the availability, security, performance, and manageability of a small business information system:

Quick Access to Cisco Registered CCIE Network Engineers
Progent is the premier provider of easy, immediate, and economical access to CCIE Certified support professionals. Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts are recognized networking experts who earn this top-level certification only as a result of intense testing by Cisco. CCIEs can tackle the most complicated problems associated with IT network design, setup, troubleshooting, and administration. Progent's CCIE consultants work closely with Cisco engineers in identifying problems with Cisco's IOS software and devising workarounds or acquiring patches to correct anomalies. Progent offers immediate access to a CCIE by phone so that you can get instant help for complex network problems that are undermining business efficiency but are outside the scope of your ordinary network support providers. Progent's CCIE support engineers can access your environment using state-of-the-art off-site support tools in order to deliver fast and cost-effective diagnosis and remediation of urgent network difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified IP phone and video IP phone experts can help your business to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent can provide expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the newest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help you to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Unified CM, originally named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express to build a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, resolving QoS, setting up SIP gateways, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE VoIP networking capability, and designing UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) solutions for survivability. For additional information about Progent's engineering help for Cisco's Unified Communications solutions, visit Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications Consulting Services.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), originally named CallManager, acts as the foundation of Cisco's communications and collaboration portfolio. CUCM and Unified CM Express provide a modern IP-PBX solution by integrating closely with unified messaging applications like Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Unity Connection for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for building a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM and CallManager consultants can assist with any aspect of Unified Communications Manager configuration and debugging in areas that include integrating VoIP phones and desktop video IP phones, designing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking and PSTN support, installing ISR routers with CUBE networking support, creating UCS server clustering solutions for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Support
Progent's certified Cisco IT security consulting professionals provide expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support covering infrastructure design, configuration, 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, mutlivector attack protection, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable gigabit products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, performance, and excellent reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built platform, eliminating possible OS-specific security gaps.

Network Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC and CISA-premier security engineers can deliver a range of budget-friendly network security Inventory bundles and security evaluation packages created to give organizations of any size an opportunity to get an impartial look at the strength of their security environment. The packages range from low-cost external network security scan and internal network security scan packages for small companies up to a high-level network security evaluation package for corporations who need meet security standards demanded by government regulators or by customers. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, engineers with top security accreditations evaluate and report on collected data and make suggestions for effective improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP PSTN Trunks and CUBE Configuration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP infrastructure experts and CUBE integration experts can help organizations of any size to plan, deploy, maintain, debug and enhance Cisco's SIP infrastructure solutions and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent offers affordable remote or on-premises expertise to help businesses to move efficiently to a modern unified communications ecosystem that offers accelerated return on investment. Progent's certified Microsoft unified communications experts can help you to set up connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's rich media platforms like Skype for Business or Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting and Support Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a wide array of wireless appliances and technologies and provides the identical protection, expandability, and manageability you expect from your wired environment. Progent can help you to achieve transparent interoperability between Cisco wireless products and wireless products from other suppliers to give your business the functionality you require as well as the most secure, dependable, and economical wireless networking solution possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can show you how to build protection into your WLAN and your business processes.

Simplified Administration Tools for Cisco-powered Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Premier network engineers can provide assistance with Cisco's network management tools along with a variety of specialized third-party applications to create a complete management automation strategy to keep your network running reliably, conserve expensive resources, guard your data, recover quickly from hardware breakdown or malicious attacks, and allow you to add or reassign network resources intelligently and economically as your business evolves.

To learn more information concerning Progent's consulting and support services for Cisco networking and security technology, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.