Small business IT networks located anywhere in the state of Minnesota can now have instant phone-based contact with a Cisco qualified CCIE infrastructure professional to fix urgent issues affecting their network. Progent offers the services of the most extensive group of CCIE network support professionals available remotely of any independent service organization in the U.S. Rates are affordable, charges are by the minute, sign-up is quick, and support is world class. In case your Minnesota organization is located beyond larger urban neighborhoods including Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, Duluth, or Bloomington, support from qualified CCIE engineers may be hard to get during a network crash. This can result in lost productivity for your business. By utilizing Progent, you can get in touch with a CCIE consultant ready to deliver the help to keep your information system operating.

What Makes Being a CCIE-certified Consultant So Important?
A Cisco CCIE is a top-level networking expert who qualifies for this ultimate recognition only after tough examinations administered by Cisco. CCIE-qualified engineers can handle the most complex problems surrounding computer network integration, repair, and configuration. Progent's CCIE-certified support specialists operate closely with Cisco's internal staff in analyzing problems with Cisco IOS software and coming up with temporary alternatives or obtaining software patches to fix problems. The vast majority of CCIEs are employed by large corporations or national Internet providers, and so their services are not easily available to the general public.

For businesses in Minnesota, Progent offers easy, quick, and affordable remote access to Cisco CCIE engineers. CCIEs are elite networking subject matter experts who are awarded this top-level certification only after strenuous examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle the most complicated problems associated with network topology, integration, optimization, troubleshooting, and service. Progent's CCIE consultants work intimately with Cisco engineers in identifying issues with Cisco's IOS software and developing workarounds or acquiring patches to correct anomalies. Progent can provide prompt online response from a CCIE so that you can receive immediate assistance for complex network problems that are affecting worker efficiency but are outside the scope of your local network support resources. Progent's CCIE support experts can link to your environment using advanced online support technology to deliver quick and cost-effective diagnosis and repair of critical network problems.

How Progent's Cisco Qualified CCIEs Can Provide Expertise with Cisco-Powered Networks in Minnesota
Progent online professionals offer world-class help for a wide array of Cisco networking technologies such as:

Cisco ASA 5500-X Next Generation Firewalls with Firepower and Legacy PIX Firewalls
The current Cisco ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services provide significantly more value than Cisco's earlier firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for new deployments. Following Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire line of ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to support Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most deployed intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring enhanced capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can assist you to maintain your current PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and migrate to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer remote and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your company to design, integrate, tune, manage and debug firewall solutions built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See more details about ASA Next Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services integration and debugging support.

Cisco Router Technology
Progent's CCIE and CCNP Premier engineers can assist your business to plan, configure, and support an integrated network infrastructure that can simplify operations, reduce expenses, and speed up payback on your IT investment. By combining Cisco integrated services routers with Catalyst switches support and Aironet access points deployment help or Cisco Meraki access points configuration services, Progent can dramatically enhance the business value of your information network in Minnesota. Progent can provide extensive phone-based help. To see more concerning Progent's services for Cisco router solutions, see Cisco Routers Professional Support.

Cisco Catalyst and Meraki Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6/6E Wireless Access Points and Wireless Network Controllers
Progent can provide access to a Cisco-certified Wi-Fi networking expert to help you to plan, install, manage and repair a converged wired and wireless environment integrating a broad array of wireless devices that offer the identical protection, extensibility, and manageability you expect from your wired network. Progent's Catalyst Access Point consultants, Meraki Wi-Fi Access Point specialists, and Cisco wireless controller consultants can help you to manage legacy wireless solutions from Cisco or upgrade seamlessly to the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology. Progent can also assist your IT team to perform efficient Cisco wireless VoIP phone configuration with Catalyst and Meraki access points for mobile on-premises telephony. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can advise you about how to design security into your WLAN and your company's operations. Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants and business continuity planners can help you to configure the HA technology built into Cisco's wireless and wired technologies so your converged network delivers continuing business value. Progent can provide affordable remote and onsite Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to design and install a Wi-Fi network with customized wireless access point clusters optimized for your individual work area layout, building characteristics, and intended application.

Cisco Voice over IP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist you to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent can provide expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued VoIP products to the newest HD media phones. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Unified CM, previously known as CallManager, or with Cisco Unified CM Express to build a modern IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and company-wide collaboration. Progent's consultants can deliver expertise with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving QoS, configuring SIP trunking, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony solutions for high availability.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM) and Cisco CallManager Unified Messaging
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), formerly named CallManager, functions as the heart of Cisco's collaboration portfolio. Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Unified Communications Manager Express offer a borderless IP-PBX by integrating closely with unified messaging applications such as Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service, Unity Connection for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for creating a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's Cisco-certified CUCM and CallManager experts can help with any facet of CUCM setup and debugging in areas such as integrating Voice over IP phones and desktop video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, configuring SIP connections and PSTN calling, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, designing Cisco UCS server clustering systems for high availability, and integration with Exchange Server and Skype for Business.

Cisco Catalyst, Nexus and Meraki Products
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network technology consultants offer advanced remote and onsite support and troubleshooting for Cisco's Catalyst, Nexus and Meraki families of fixed and modular switches for applications that range from small or midsize businesses and campus networks to enterprise data centers and public clouds. Progent can assist you to deploy Cisco's continually evolving switch solutions to achieve the speed, expandability, uptime, virtualization support, security and ease of management needed by your business. For information about Progent's consulting and troubleshooting services for Cisco's market-leading portfolio of Catalyst switches, see Cisco Catalyst switch consulting services. For information about Progent's consulting services for Cisco's Nexus family of data center switches, refer to Cisco Nexus switch consulting and support services. To learn about Progent's support services for Cisco Meraki switches, see Meraki switches consulting services.

Cisco Security and VPN Solutions
Progent can give you access to a certified CCIE or certified CCNP to assist you to select, integrate, and support Cisco security technology. Progent's CISM and CISSP security professionals can advise you about how to build security into your company's processes in Minnesota and Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance consultants can help you to design and operate Security information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions that allow you to comply with regulatory requirements for prompt security incident reporting. Progent can help you to develop a documented security strategy to establish precise security policies, install scanning and auditing utilities, design and install a secure network infrastructure that incorporates products from a variety of vendors, offer outbound spam and virus filtering with policy-based content filtering for incoming and outbound email, and advise you about steps to optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security consulting is available to help you implement an ASA Next Generation firewall, design safe remote access to messaging and corporate data, and install or troubleshoot VPNs. To learn additional information concerning Progent's services for Cisco security technology, go to Cisco VPN and Network Security Consulting Help.

Cisco SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Consulting
Progent's Cisco-certified SIP trunk consultants and Cisco CUBE configuration experts can help your business to plan, integrate, manage, debug and enhance Cisco's SIP infrastructure technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-connected IP PSTN trunks. Progent can provide cost-effective online or on-premises expertise to assist businesses to migrate smoothly to a modern communications environment that offers fast return on investment. Progent's certified Microsoft collaboration experts can help you to establish interfaces between Cisco's CUBE Session Border Controller and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video platforms such as Skype for Business Server or Lync for connectivity to a SIP PSTN trunk.

Cisco-based Network Management Solutions
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management consultants can assist you to utilize Cisco's network management tools alongside an array of effective open source and proprietary programs to develop a comprehensive network management strategy to keep your network running dependably, conserve valuable resources, protect your information, recover rapidly from equipment failure or deliberates assaults, and allow you to expand or repurpose network hardware intelligently and economically as your Minnesota company evolves.

Progent can also help you to use network management tools to analyze and categorize system data to enable traffic shaping, which permits you to configure Cisco routers to enforce a variety of throughput restrictions on designated types of processes based on the importance you assign. By buffering and queuing excess packets that exceed your committed volume, and by assigning priority to critical processes, traffic shaping can keep ISP overage penalties from spiraling out of reach and/or avoid lost productivity resulting from brute force policing of your network traffic volume restrictions during periods of heavy use. To learn more details concerning Progent's network management support services for Cisco environments, see Network Management Solutions for Cisco-powered Networks.

NetApp and Cisco FlexPod Private Cloud Platform Consulting
FlexPod is a service-oriented cloud architecture developed and validated jointly by NetApp and Cisco to combine servers, network infrastructure and storage resources for hosting shared business applications and network management tools. To learn more details concerning Progent's consulting services for NetApp and Cisco cloud integration, see NetApp and Cisco Private Cloud Architecture Consulting.

How You Can Contact a Cisco CCIE Network Engineer Immediately
To see how to contact a Certified CCIE for online expertise in Minnesota, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Urgent Remote Computer Help.

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