Expanding your at-home workforce may have a major effect on IT architecture, cybersecurity, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of background helping SMBs to design, configure, manage, optimize, and debug IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Stockton company to pick the right tools and adhere to best practices in creating and operating a secure virtual office solution for teleworkers that promotes collaboration and returns maximum value. Progent offers services that go from as-needed guidance for getting you past occasional technical roadblocks to full project management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.

Progent can help Stockton, California companies to succeed with any facet of creating a high-performing remote work environment by providing infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, helpdesk augmentation, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Infrastructure for Teleworkers
Configuring the network infrastructure needed for a remote workforce can be particularly complicated if you must accommodate a combination of personal hardware such as PCs and laptops, routers, and wireless appliances from an assortment of vendors and with a variety of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's background delivering remote help for both outdated and modern technologies in remote office solutions enables you to make efficient use of your existing infrastructure and provides you with fast access to top-tire consultants for implement necessary upgrades. Services available from Progent to assist you to implement a high-functioning work-at-home ecosystem include:

  • Virtual Private Network (VPN) connectivity allows you to create a safe connection for authenticated at-home workers to use IT assets located at your company datacenter or in the cloud. Progent can assist you to deploy and manage VPN access between your at-home workforce and your key IT resources by providing remote VPN configuration consulting. For businesses using Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco ASA Firewall consultants can assist your at-home workers to utilize Cisco's AnyConnect client software to provide safe VPN tunneling for a broad range of devices such as Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platforms allow a teleworker to see and interact with a remote computer's desktop. This technology provides network managers more control over the digital ecosystem of at-home employees and ensures remote users a familiar experience. Progent's VDI 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 wireless networks, and firewall services. Progent offers top-tier remote support for setting up routers from a range of manufacturers. See router integration support from Cisco-certified consultants.
  • Home Wireless networks, often supporting an entire household and visitors, are commonly used by telecommuters to connect to their router for work. This can create throughput as well as cybersecurity issues. Progent can assist you to mitigate these issues by providing services like Aironet integration expertise, Cisco Meraki WiFi deployment expertise, and Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi AP setup help.
  • Internet connectivity solutions impact the speed and reliability of connections between at-home workers and the corporate data center. Mission-critical applications might demand redundant Internet connections in case the normal connection fails. Progent can provide expertise for picking service providers, choosing appropriate service bundles, and integrating redundant Internet connections. Refer to Internet access integration services.

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To contact Progent about building and managing a productive work-from-home environment for your Stockton, California company, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.