Expanding your remote workforce may have a major effect on network infrastructure, security, and company culture. Progent has two decades of experience assisting SMBs to design, deploy, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT networks that support at-home workers. Progent can help your Salinas organization to pick the appropriate technologies and follow leading practices in building and operating a secure virtual office solution for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and delivers maximum business value. Progent offers support services ranging from as-needed guidance for helping you over occasional IT roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can assist Salinas, California businesses to with any facet of creating a high-performing work-at-home ecosystem by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, helpdesk services, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.

Network Infrastructure for Teleworkers
Integrating the network infrastructure required for a remote work environment can be particularly complex if you have to accommodate a combination of worker-owned hardware such as PCs and notebooks, Internet routers, and Wi-Fi appliances from different vendors and with a variety of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's experience delivering remote support for both outdated as well as modern technologies in remote office solutions enables you to make cost-effective use of your existing network infrastructure and offers fast access to top-tire consultants for making essential updates. Services available from Progent to assist you to implement a productive telecommuting infrastructure include:

  • VPN connectivity allows you to establish a secure tunnel for authorized remote workers to use IT assets situated at your company data center or in a public cloud. Progent's consultants can help you to deploy and maintain VPN access between your teleworkers and your various IT resources by providing online VPN integration support. For businesses using Cisco's ASA firewalls, Progent's Cisco-certified ASA Firewall consultants can assist your remote workers to set up Cisco's AnyConnect software for safe VPN connections for a wide range of endpoint devices such as Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platforms enable a telecommuter to see and use a data center computer's desktop. This technology provides IT managers significant control over the computing environment of telecommuters and offers them a consistent and more productive work experience. Progent's VDI services include Windows Remote Desktop integration and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI consulting.
  • Routers connect home networks to the Internet and support VPN connections, home wireless networks, and firewalls. Progent offers top-tier online consulting for deploying routers from all major vendors. See router integration services from Cisco-certified consultants.
  • Home Wi-Fi networks, often shared by families and visitors, are commonly utilized by telecommuters to access their Internet router for work. This can cause performance and cybersecurity problems. Progent can assist you to mitigate these issues by delivering services like Cisco Aironet configuration expertise, Cisco-certified Meraki WiFi installation expertise, and Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi access point integration help.
  • Internet access solutions impact the performance and reliability of connections between telecommuters and the corporate network. Vital processes might require backup Internet connections in case the normal connection fails. Progent can provide expertise for selecting Internet service providers, picking sensible bandwidth and data volume packages, and configuring high-availability Internet access. See Internet connectivity solutions.

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about creating and maintaining a productive telecommuter solution for your Salinas, California organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.