New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Cisco introduced new products intended especially for small business IT networks and engineered to provide high levels of security and collaboration at a budget-friendly cost. Products announced by Cisco were Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the newest release of the Smart Business Communications System.

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker appliance is a dedicated email security device that essentially eradicates email-based attacks as shipped. The Cisco NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are affordable desktop NAS devices that offer protection for valuable information and enable employees to share information effortlessly. The Cisco SBCS Release 1.4, a full sharing and communications solution that easily connects sites, workers, and customers anywhere. Cisco's current version features the industry's first cordless desktop IP handset with Bluetooth support. To see Cisco's news release, visit Cisco Announces Networking and Security Products for Small Businesses.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker
The Spam Blocker appliance safeguards small companies by providing extensive defense against junk mail, viruses and other email attacks to secure your network and corporate data while enhance productivity. Because the device stops spam with minimal set up and stays current on its own, it avoids the cost and time required for initial configuration and ongoing and administration. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam Blocker appliance helps the performance of network connections, application servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker is an end-to-end defense against email attacks by including a physical appliance, software, ongoing patches, and technical assistance in a single bundle.

Key features of Cisco's Spam Blocker include:

• Efficiency: Assists to ensure that email-borne threats and spam are intercepted and business messages are delivered.
• Continuous self-installed updates: Constant communication with SenderBase services, an online database of email security threats, makes sure that the Cisco Spam Blocker installs the latest patches to safequard your business email.
• Simple setup and use: User-friendly browser-based installation tools allow you to install Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in practically any environment within minutes, delivering instant protection for your business network.
• Streamlined management: As soon as you deploys the Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker, you benefit from junk mail and malware filtering with minimal additional hassle demanded of your IT staff.

Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco NSS2000 and 3000 Network Storage Systems offer the robust protection and advanced backup capabilities that your business requires, at a price small businesses can handle. The Small Business NSS3000 supports as much as to four TB of data and as many as 15 simultaneous users per chassis, offering the optimal answer for holding, sharing, and archiving your vital corporate information. Unlike less advanced NAS systems, the Cisco NSS3000 provides the state-of-the-art backup, encryption, client authentication, and high uptime your organization requires.

The Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System enclosure handles any certified disk drive. The enclosure offers a range of capabilities in a desktop-size form factor designed for small businesses. The Small Business NSS3000 Storage enclosure also provides your company the versatility to configure the product without any attached disk drives, to reconfigure the product at any time, and to link several chassis together, providing a solution that can smoothly expand with your business.

You can use the Cisco Small Business NSS2000 or NSS3000 to:

• Automatically copy vital data from every PC and server in your company
• Provide unified preservation and sharing of important information
• Run Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to copy unattended every version of each file saved by workers, allowing your business to restore information with ease
• Record and archive digital video from your surveillance cameras

Smart Business Communications System (SBCS)
The Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 is a simple and complete sharing and communications solution that enables small organizations to connect at-home workers, on-the-road workers and employees in separate sites to improve their ability to collaborate with customers and teammates. In Release 1.4, the affordable solution has improved wireless capabilities such as the first wireless desktop IP phone with built-in Bluetooth technology, the Cisco SPA525G IP device, which enables companies to grow easily by adding phones in locations where traditional phone lines or network cables are not present or cannot conveniently be run.

Additional innovative pieces of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 are:

• The Cisco Model 520 Secure Router to help protect the company's network and give employees safe connectivity to the Internet and important corporate data wherever they are
• Cisco's Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to allow stakeholders to streamline the setup and installation of solutions designed custom for individual companies

How Progent's Certified Engineers Can Help You to Deploy Cisco Technology
Progent's Cisco-qualified consultants and Cisco CCIE engineers can assist you to evaluate new Cisco technologies to understand their usefulness for your IT system, deploy Cisco security and communication platforms to enhance the security and performance of your information network, and troubleshoot Cisco devices both in person and remotely to keep your network running dependably. Progent's IT professionals offer a range of low-cost services to improve the availability, safety, efficiency, and maintainability of your company's IT system:

Immediate Online Access to Cisco CCIE Engineers
Progent offers convenient, quick, and cost-effective help from CCIE engineers. CCIEs are elite networking experts who earn this top-level classification only after intense examination by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle even the most complicated problems associated with network planning, setup, troubleshooting, and administration. Progent's CCIE experts work closely with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS platform and devising fixes or obtaining patches to correct problems. Progent can provide quick access to a CCIE by phone so you can get instant help for complex network troubles that are undermining business efficiency but are beyond the expertise of your usual IT service providers. Progent's CCIE support engineers can link to your environment via state-of-the-art off-site connectivity tools to provide fast and affordable analysis and remediation of urgent infrastructure difficulties.

Cisco VoIP Phone and IP Video Phone Solutions
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone consultants can help your business to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the latest media phones. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally branded CallManager, or with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) to create a modern IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent's consultants can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, solving IP phone registration issues, setting up SIP gateways, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco SRST systems for high availability. For more information on Progent's technical support for Cisco's IP voice and video solutions, refer to Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications Consulting Support.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CallManager Collaboration
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, previously known as CallManager, acts as the center of Cisco's communications and collaboration solution. Unified CM and Cisco Unified CM Express offer a borderless IP-PBX solution by integrating closely with unified messaging apps such as Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Express for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR), and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for building a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's Cisco-certified Cisco Unified CM consultants can assist with any facet of Unified CM setup and troubleshooting in areas such as integrating Cisco VoIP phones and desktop video IP phones, reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP connections and PSTN calling, installing ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, designing UCS server failover systems for survivability, and integration with Microsoft Exchange and Skype for Business.

Cisco ASA Firewall and PIX Firewall Consulting
Progent's certified Cisco network security consulting professionals provide expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support including infrastructure design, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and safe access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-grade appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of security, high throughput, and high availability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's GIAC, CISA and CISM-certified security consultants can deliver a range of cost-effective security Inventory service bundles and network security evaluation packages created to offer businesses of all sizes an opportunity to receive a professional opinion about the effectiveness of their security profile. The packages vary from ultra-affordable external security scan and internal security scan options for small companies up to a high-end network security assessment solution for enterprises who need meet security standards required by state agencies or by customers. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, consultants with high-level security accreditations evaluate and report on collected information and provide suggestions for effective improvements.

SIP Connectivity Solutions: SIP Trunks and Cisco CUBE Integration Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified SIP trunk consultants and Cisco CUBE integration consultants can help organizations of any size to design, integrate, manage, troubleshoot and enhance Cisco's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connectivity technology and Cisco's CUBE (Cisco Unified Border Element)-based SIP trunks. Progent offers cost-effective remote or on-premises expertise to help companies to move smoothly to a modern unified communications environment that delivers fast ROI. Progent's certified Microsoft collaboration consultants can help you to configure connections between Cisco's CUBE SBC and Microsoft's VoIP and IP video applications like Skype for Business Server or Lync Server for access to a SIP-based IP PSTN trunk.

Consulting Consulting and Troubleshooting Services for Cisco Wireless Solutions
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that incorporates a broad range of wireless products and technologies and provides the identical security, scalability, and manageability you expect from a wired environment. Progent can assist you to implement seamless interoperability between Cisco wireless technology and wireless products from other vendors to offer your company the functionality you require as well as the most secure, dependable, and economical wireless networking system possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security consultants can advise you about how to build security into your WLAN and into your company's operations.

Simplified Administration Tools for Cisco-powered Small Business Network Infrastructure
Progent's Cisco-Certified network management engineers can provide assistance with Cisco's network management tools along with a variety of powerful third-party applications to build a comprehensive network management strategy in order to keep your network operating reliably, fully utilize expensive resources, guard your data, revive quickly from hardware breakdown or deliberate assaults, and allow you to add or reassign network resources sensibly and economically as your business grows.

To find out additional details concerning Progent's consulting support for Cisco connectivity and security products, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.