Enlarging your at-home workforce can have a major effect on IT infrastructure, security/compliance, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting SMBs to design, deploy, manage, optimize, and debug IT networks that support a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Leeds company to pick the right tools and follow best practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and returns top business value. Progent offers support services that go from on demand guidance for getting you past occasional IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out mission-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can assist Leeds, United Kingdom organizations to with any facet of creating a high-functioning work-at-home environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, helpdesk augmentation, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Infrastructure for Teleworkers
Configuring the network infrastructure required to support a remote workforce can be particularly complicated if you must accommodate a mix of worker-owned equipment like PCs and laptops, routers, and wireless appliances from an assortment of vendors and with a variety of operating systems and firmware releases. Progent's experience providing remote support for both outdated and current IT products in remote office solutions allows you to make cost-effective use of your existing infrastructure and offers fast access to top-tire consultants for making essential updates. Services offered by Progent to help you to implement a productive work-at-home infrastructure include:

  • Virtual Private Network connectivity makes it possible to establish a safe tunnel for authenticated remote workers to access IT resources situated at your corporate data center or in the cloud. Progent can help your company to deploy and maintain VPN connections between your teleworkers and your key IT resources by providing remote VPN configuration support. For businesses with Cisco's ASA firewalls, Progent's Cisco-certified ASA Firewall experts can assist your at-home workers to set up Cisco's AnyConnect software to provide safe VPN connections for a broad range of endpoint devices including Windows, Mac, iOS, Linux, and Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platforms enable a telecommuter to view and interact with a remote PC's desktop. This technology gives IT managers substantial control over the computing environment of at-home employees and offers them a familiar experience. Progent's virtual desktop services include Windows Remote Desktop integration and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops expertise.
  • Routers connect home computer networks to the Internet and typically support VPN connections, home Wi-Fi networks, and firewall services. Progent offers expert remote support for deploying home routers from a variety of vendors. See router integration services from Cisco-certified consultants.
  • Home Wireless networks, typically supporting families and visitors, are commonly used by telecommuters to connect to their router for work. This can cause performance and cybersecurity issues. Progent can assist you to mitigate these issues by delivering expertise like Aironet configuration expertise, Cisco-certified Meraki WiFi installation consulting, and Ubiquiti Unifi wireless AP integration assistance.
  • Internet access solutions impact the performance and reliability of connections between at-home workers and the company data center. Line-of-business processes might require redundant Internet connections in the event the primary connection fails. Progent can provide expertise for picking ISPs, selecting sensible service packages, and configuring redundant Internet connections. See Internet access integration services.

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and managing a productive telecommuter environment for your Leeds, United Kingdom company, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.