Enlarging your remote workforce can have a significant effect on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has two decades of experience assisting small and mid-size businesses to design, configure, administer, tune, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Manhattan Beach company to select the right technologies and follow best practices in building and operating a secure virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and delivers top value. Progent offers support services that go from as-needed guidance for helping you past challenging IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can assist Manhattan Beach, California organizations to with any aspect of building a high-performing work-from-home environment by delivering network infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, Help Desk services, cybersecurity, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.

Network Infrastructure for Teleworkers
Integrating the physical and software infrastructure required to support an at-home work environment can be especially challenging if you must accommodate a combination of worker-owned hardware like PCs and notebooks, routers, and wireless appliances from an assortment of vendors and with a mix of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's experience providing online support for both legacy and current technologies in remote office venues allows you to make efficient use of your existing network infrastructure and offers ready access to expertise for implement necessary updates. Support services offered by Progent to assist your company to implement a high-functioning telecommuting ecosystem include:

  • Virtual Private Network (VPN) connectivity makes it possible to establish a safe connection for authorized at-home workers to use IT resources situated at your company datacenter or in the cloud. Progent can assist you to deploy and maintain VPN connections between your teleworkers and your key IT resources by providing remote VPN integration support. For businesses using Cisco's ASA firewalls, Progent's Cisco ASA experts can help your at-home workers to set up Cisco's AnyConnect client software to provide safe VPN connections for a wide range of devices such as Windows, Mac, Apple iOS, Linux, and Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure products enable an at-home worker to view and interact with a data center computer's desktop. This technology provides IT managers more control over the digital environment of telecommuters and offers them a familiar work experience. Progent's VDI consulting services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops expertise.
  • Routers attach home computer networks to the Internet and typically support VPN connections, local wireless connectivity, and firewalls. Progent can provide expert remote support for integrating home routers from a variety of manufacturers. See router configuration support from Cisco-certified consultants.
  • Home Wi-Fi networks, often supporting families and visitors, are frequently utilized by at-home employees to access their Internet router for work. This can create throughput as well as cybersecurity problems. Progent can help businesses to resolve these issues by providing services that include Cisco Aironet integration consulting, Cisco Meraki wireless deployment consulting, and Ubiquiti Unifi wireless access point integration assistance.
  • Internet connectivity solutions affect the speed and availability of connections between telecommuters and the corporate data center. Mission-critical applications might demand backup Internet access in the event the primary connection fails. Progent can provide guidance for identifying service providers, picking sensible bandwidth and data volume offerings, and setting up high-availability Internet access. Refer to Internet access solutions.

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and managing a productive work-from-home solution for your Manhattan Beach, California business, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.