Cisco has announced that it is expanding the industry’s broadest portfolio of small business technology with new solutions to help small businesses connect their business to the world, secure their network and communicate more effectively. Its latest addition is a family of energy-efficient, unmanaged switches which are part of the Cisco Small Business Series of networking solutions, a complete portfolio of affordably priced networking products, purpose-built for small businesses. Cisco is also launching a Web-based Small Business University, where partners can find all the tools and training materials necessary to develop a successful small business practice and offers partners complimentary design support via the Small Business Support Communities to help them create and deploy the best solutions to solve their customers’ unique business problems.
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Cisco offers Small Businesses with New Solutions
“Cisco is focussed on building reliable, affordable technologies that small businesses can easily use to connect their business to the world, help secure their business, and communicate more effectively. By categorizing the Cisco Small Business portfolio into connect, secure and communicate, we are helping small businesses select the right technologies to meet their core business needs and even accelerate as the economy recovers,” said Rick Moran, Vice-President, Small Business Solutions Marketing, Cisco.
In the switches portfolio, the Cisco 100 Series Switches are a new series of energy-efficient, unmanaged switches that provide wire-speed Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. The Cisco ESW500 Series Switches are fixed-configuration managed Ethernet switches that provide wire-speed Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity along with embedded security, quality-of-service (QoS), and Power over Ethernet (PoE) features.
The Cisco SA500 Series Security Appliances, part of the Cisco Small Business Pro Series, combine secure Internet, wireless, site-to-site, and remote access with a firewall and optional IPS, email and web security capabilities so small business can feel confident that their business is protected. The Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) is a complete networking and unified communications solution for small businesses.
