Expanding your telecommuter workforce may have a significant impact on IT architecture, security/compliance, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of background helping businesses of all sizes to plan, deploy, administer, optimize, and debug IT networks that support work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Manchester company to select the right technologies and follow leading practices in building and operating a safe virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and returns maximum business value. Progent can provide services ranging from on demand guidance for helping you past occasional IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can assist Manchester, New Hampshire businesses to with any facet of building a high-functioning work-from-home ecosystem by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, helpdesk outsourcing, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.
Network Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Integrating the physical and software infrastructure needed for an at-home work environment can be especially complicated if you must manage a combination of worker-owned equipment such as PCs and laptops, routers, and Wi-Fi appliances from an assortment of vendors and with a variety of operating systems and firmware releases. Progent's experience providing online support for both legacy as well as modern IT products in remote office venues allows you to make cost-effective use of your available network infrastructure and provides you with ready access to top-tire consultants for making essential upgrades. Services offered by Progent to help your company to create a high-functioning work-at-home infrastructure include:
- VPN connectivity allows you to create a secure tunnel for authorized remote workers to access IT resources located at your company data center or in a public cloud. Progent's consultants can assist you to deploy and maintain VPN access between your teleworkers and your key IT resources by providing remote VPN configuration consulting. For businesses with Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco ASA Firewall experts can help your telecommuters to utilize Cisco's AnyConnect client software for secure VPN connections for a wide range of endpoint devices including Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platforms enable an at-home worker to see and interact with a data center computer's desktop. This provides IT managers substantial control over the computing ecosystem of telecommuters and ensures remote users a familiar work experience. Progent's virtual desktop consulting services include Windows Remote Desktop integration and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI expertise.
- Routers attach at-home computer networks to the Internet and typically support VPN tunnels, local wireless connectivity, and firewalls. Progent can provide top-tier online consulting for deploying home routers from a range of vendors. See router configuration support from Cisco-certified experts.
- Home Wireless networks, typically shared by an entire household and guests, are commonly used by telecommuters to connect to their router for work. This can cause throughput and security problems. Progent can assist businesses to resolve these issues by delivering expertise that include Cisco Aironet integration expertise, Cisco-certified Meraki wireless installation consulting, and Ubiquiti WiFi access point integration assistance.
- Internet access solutions impact the speed and availability of connections between telecommuters and the corporate data center. Line-of-business applications might demand redundant Internet access in the event the normal connection breaks. Progent can provide expertise for picking ISPs, picking sensible service bundles, and integrating high-availability Internet connections. Refer to Internet access integration services.
Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and managing a productive work-from-home solution for your Manchester, New Hampshire company, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.