Enlarging your telecommuter workforce can have a major impact on IT architecture, cybersecurity, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of background helping SMBs to design, deploy, manage, tune, and debug IT networks that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can help your Lynnwood company to select the right technologies and follow best practices in creating and operating a safe virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and delivers maximum value. Progent offers services that go from on demand guidance for getting you over occasional IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out mission-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can help Lynnwood, Washington companies to succeed with any aspect of building a high-performing work-from-home environment by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, Help Desk services, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.
Network Infrastructure for Telecommuters
Configuring the network infrastructure needed for an at-home work environment can be particularly challenging if you have to accommodate a mix of personal hardware such as PCs and laptops, routers, and wireless appliances from different vendors and with a variety of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's experience delivering remote support for both legacy as well as current IT products in remote office solutions enables you to make cost-effective use of your existing network infrastructure and provides you with fast access to expertise for implement essential updates. Support services offered by Progent to assist you to implement a high-functioning telecommuting ecosystem include:
- Virtual Private Network connectivity allows you to establish a safe connection for authenticated remote workers to use IT resources located at your company data center or in a public cloud. Progent can help your company to configure and maintain VPN connections between your at-home workforce and your various IT resources by providing online VPN configuration support. For businesses with Cisco's ASA firewalls, Progent's Cisco ASA Firewall consultants can help your remote workers to utilize Cisco's popular AnyConnect software for secure VPN tunneling for a wide range of devices such as Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) products enable a telecommuter to see and use a data center computer's desktop. This technology provides network managers more control over the computing environment of at-home employees and ensures remote users a familiar experience. Progent's VDI services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI consulting.
- Routers connect home networks to the Internet and support VPN tunnels, home Wi-Fi connectivity, and firewalls. Progent offers top-tier online support for setting up home routers from all major vendors. See router integration services from Cisco-certified consultants.
- Home Wireless networks, often shared by an entire household and visitors, are frequently used by telecommuters to access their router for work. This can cause performance and cybersecurity issues. Progent can help you to resolve these issues by providing services that include Aironet integration expertise, Cisco-certified Meraki wireless deployment expertise, and Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi access point setup assistance.
- Internet connectivity methods affect the performance and availability of connections between at-home workers and the corporate data center. Business-critical applications may require redundant Internet connections in the event the primary connection breaks. Progent offers expertise for picking Internet service providers, choosing sensible bandwidth and data volume bundles, and integrating high-availability Internet connections. See Internet access integration services.
Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and managing a productive work-from-home environment for your Lynnwood, Washington organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.