Enlarging your remote workforce can have a significant effect on network infrastructure, security, and company culture. Progent has two decades of background helping SMBs to plan, configure, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Oklahoma CIty company to select the right technologies and adhere to leading practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and delivers maximum value. Progent can provide services ranging from on demand expertise for helping you past challenging IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out mission-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can help Oklahoma CIty, Oklahoma organizations to with any facet of building a high-functioning work-at-home environment by delivering infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, helpdesk outsourcing, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Network Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Integrating the physical and software infrastructure needed for a remote work environment can be especially complicated if you have to manage a combination of personal hardware like desktop computers and laptops, routers, and Wi-Fi appliances from various manufacturers and with a variety of operating systems and firmware levels. Progent's experience providing online help for both outdated and modern IT products in virtual office solutions allows you to make efficient use of your available network infrastructure and offers fast access to top-tire consultants for implement essential upgrades. Support services available from Progent to help your company to create a high-functioning telecommuting infrastructure include:

  • Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology allows you to establish a safe connection for authorized at-home workers to use IT resources located at your corporate datacenter or in the cloud. Progent's consultants can assist you to configure and manage VPN access between your at-home workforce and your key network resources by providing remote VPN integration consulting. For organizations using Cisco's ASA firewalls, Progent's Cisco ASA experts can assist your at-home workers to utilize Cisco's popular AnyConnect client software to provide safe VPN connections for a broad range of endpoint devices such as Microsoft Windows, Mac, Apple iOS, Linux, and Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platforms enable an at-home worker to see and use a remote PC's desktop. This technology gives network managers more control over the digital ecosystem of telecommuters and offers them a familiar experience. Progent's virtual desktop consulting services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI consulting.
  • Routers connect home computer networks to the Internet and typically support VPN tunnels, local Wi-Fi connectivity, and firewall services. Progent can provide expert online consulting for configuring home routers from a variety of manufacturers. See router integration support from Cisco-certified experts.
  • Home Wi-Fi networks, typically supporting an entire household and guests, are commonly used by telecommuters to access their Internet router for work. This can cause performance and cybersecurity problems. Progent can help you to mitigate these issues by delivering expertise that include Cisco Aironet configuration expertise, Cisco Meraki WiFi installation expertise, and Ubiquiti wireless access point integration assistance.
  • Internet access methods impact the performance and availability of connections between telecommuters and the company data center. Line-of-business processes may require backup Internet access in the event the normal connection fails. Progent offers expertise for selecting service providers, selecting sensible bandwidth and data volume bundles, and configuring fault-tolerant Internet access. Refer to Internet connectivity solutions.

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and managing an efficient telecommuter solution for your Oklahoma CIty, Oklahoma business, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.