Enlarging your remote workforce can have a significant effect on network infrastructure, security/compliance, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of background helping SMBs to plan, configure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Vacaville organization to pick the right tools and follow leading practices in creating and operating a secure virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that promotes collaboration and returns top value. Progent can provide services ranging from as-needed guidance for helping you past challenging technical bottlenecks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can help Vacaville, California companies to with any aspect of building a high-performing remote work ecosystem by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, Call Desk augmentation, data security, data protection solutions, and unified management.

Network Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Integrating the network infrastructure needed to support a remote work environment can be particularly challenging if you must manage a mix of worker-owned hardware like desktop computers and laptops, Internet routers, and Wi-Fi appliances from an assortment of manufacturers and with a mix of operating systems and firmware releases. Progent's background delivering online help for both outdated as well as modern technologies in remote office venues allows you to make cost-effective use of your existing infrastructure and offers ready access to top-tire consultants for making essential updates. Support services offered by Progent to assist your company to create a productive work-at-home infrastructure include:

  • VPN connectivity makes it possible to create a secure tunnel for authorized at-home employees to use IT assets located at your company data center or in a public cloud. Progent can help your company to deploy and manage VPN access between your teleworkers and your key IT resources by providing online VPN integration support. For organizations using Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco-certified ASA Firewall consultants can help your remote workers to utilize Cisco's AnyConnect client software to provide secure VPN connections for a wide selection of devices including Windows, Mac, Apple iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure products enable a telecommuter to see and interact with a data center computer's desktop. This provides IT managers significant control over the computing ecosystem of telecommuters and offers them a familiar work experience. Progent's virtual desktop consulting services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops expertise.
  • Routers attach home computer networks to the Internet and typically support VPN connections, home Wi-Fi networks, and firewall services. Progent can provide expert online support for deploying home routers from all major manufacturers. See router configuration support from Cisco-certified consultants.
  • Home Wi-Fi networks, typically supporting families and guests, are frequently used by telecommuters to access their router for work. This can create performance and cybersecurity issues. Progent can help businesses to mitigate these problems by providing expertise like Aironet integration consulting, Cisco Meraki wireless installation consulting, and Ubiquiti Unifi wireless access point setup help.
  • Internet connectivity solutions impact the performance and reliability of connections between telecommuters and the company data center. Vital applications may demand redundant Internet access in the event the primary connection fails. Progent offers guidance for selecting service providers, picking sensible bandwidth and data volume offerings, and configuring fault-tolerant Internet connections. See Internet access integration services.

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
To contact Progent about creating and maintaining an efficient work-from-home environment for your Vacaville, California business, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.