Enlarging your telecommuter workforce may have a significant effect on IT architecture, security, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of background assisting small and mid-size businesses to plan, deploy, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your London organization to select the appropriate tools and adhere to best practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum business value. Progent offers services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you past challenging technical roadblocks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.

Progent can help London, United Kingdom companies to with any aspect of building a high-functioning work-at-home environment by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, Help Desk services, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.

Infrastructure for Teleworkers
Integrating the physical and software infrastructure needed to support an at-home work environment can be particularly complicated if you have to manage a mix of worker-owned equipment like desktop computers and notebooks, Internet routers, and wireless appliances from various manufacturers and with a mix of operating systems and firmware releases. Progent's background delivering online support for both legacy as well as modern technologies in virtual office venues allows you to make efficient use of your existing network infrastructure and offers fast access to top-tire consultants for making necessary updates. Support services available from Progent to assist you to implement a productive telecommuting infrastructure include:

  • VPN connectivity makes it possible to create a secure connection for authorized at-home workers to use IT resources situated at your corporate datacenter or in a public cloud. Progent's consultants can assist your company to deploy and manage VPN access between your at-home workforce and your various network resources by providing online VPN integration consulting. For businesses with Cisco's ASA firewalls, Progent's Cisco-certified ASA consultants can help your telecommuters to utilize Cisco's AnyConnect software for secure VPN tunneling for a wide range of devices such as Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) products allow a telecommuter to see and use a data center computer's desktop. This technology gives network managers substantial control over the computing ecosystem of at-home employees and offers remote users a consistent and more productive experience. Progent's virtual desktop services include Windows Remote Desktop integration and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI consulting.
  • Routers attach at-home networks to the Internet and typically support VPN connections, local wireless connectivity, and firewalls. Progent can provide top-tier online consulting for integrating routers from a variety of manufacturers. See router configuration support from Cisco-certified consultants.
  • Home Wi-Fi networks, often shared by the whole family and visitors, are frequently used by at-home employees to access their Internet router for work. This can cause performance as well as security issues. Progent can assist businesses to resolve these issues by providing expertise like Cisco Aironet integration consulting, Cisco-certified Meraki WiFi installation consulting, and Ubiquiti wireless access point setup help.
  • Internet connectivity methods affect the performance and availability of connections between at-home workers and the corporate data center. Mission-critical applications might demand redundant Internet connections in the event the normal connection breaks. Progent can provide expertise for picking service providers, choosing sensible bandwidth and data volume bundles, and setting up high-availability Internet connections. See Internet access integration services.

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and maintaining an efficient work-from-home environment for your London, United Kingdom organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.