ERSAnet Business Works Overview

What is ERSAnet Business Works?

ERSAnet Business Works customizes the products in the Cisco Business Communication Solution to fit the real-life business needs of YOUR company. ERSAnet Business Works is built upon the theory of using a network as a strategic asset for your business.

What is a network?

A network is a collection of two or more connected computers. When computers are joined in a network, people can share files and peripherals. When networks at multiple locations are connected using services available from phone companies, people can send an e-mail, share links to the global Internet, or conduct video conferences in real time with other remote users. It’s the new way of doing business.

ERSAnet Business Works is an integrated network offering that includes security, employee mobility, IP telephony, wireless, and advanced applications – all backed by technical support, training, and financing. It is a solution that will be created only by knowing how your business works; what it’s needs are; and what your goals, strategy, philosophy, and processes are as a business.

• Cisco Business Communications Solution(Flash)

Security

Security Integrated Security Ideal for Small Businesses or Branch Offices

Networks remain at the core of most businesses today, and the reality of security threats keeps network security high on the list of priorities for IT managers focused on protecting their networks. As security requirements evolve to include more integrated security solutions that secure all entry points into the network, ERSAnet Business Works is enhancing its security portfolio to dramatically improve the ability of a network to identify, prevent, and respond to threats.

Built with embedded security hardware acceleration, ERSAnet Business Works features Cisco integrated services routers that integrate Cisco IOS VPN, firewall, and inline IPS services, delivering the industry's most comprehensive and adaptable security solutions. These routers particularly address the needs of small and remote offices that require integrated security to minimize the number of operating systems and devices to manage with limited IT resources.

By combining robust Cisco IOS Software functions and industry-leading LAN and WAN connectivity with world-class security functions, ERSAnet Business Works’ integrated security solutions help enable companies to take advantage of existing network infrastructure and deploy security where they need it most. Instead of adding hardware, Cisco IOS Software lets customers use new, integrated security features on their routers and apply those security functions anywhere in the network. The Cisco integrated services routers protect all entry points into the network, as well as defend against attacks targeted directly at the network infrastructure.

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Cisco Integrated Service Routers

Create a more intelligent, responsive integrated network based on adaptive and resilient technologies

Cisco’s new integrated services routers enable you to take advantage of the same applications and technologies large enterprises use, but in a compact, easy-to-manage solution designed and priced specifically for SMBs, branch offices, and teleworkers. Cisco integrated services routers combine data, security, wireless networking, and voice services into a single, resilient platform that delivers secure, concurrent applications as fast as your business can operate. With an integrated network system, you can reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, safeguard information assets, and respond more rapidly to your customers and to changes in your business.

Designed as a long-term, adaptable solution for businesses, Cisco integrated services routers provide built-in capacity to support new applications and services. You use only the services you need today, and then activate more services in the future without incurring significant costs. Cisco integrated services routers support:

• Proven, integrated wireless networking to enhance productivity and collaboration by enabling employees to access business applications from anywhere in the workspace.

• IP voice, including advanced communications such as call processing, voicemail, auto attendant, and conferencing functions, to improve business communications and customer care while reducing the costs of maintaining a traditional voice system. Lower costs, fewer phone bills, enhanced communications.

• Security components, to reduce the business risk associated with viruses and other security threats, such as loss of service, lost revenue, and harm to customer service.

• Virtual private networks (VPNs), to provide secure access to company assets for remote workers and teleworkers, and to enable improved collaboration and responsiveness between employees, partners, and suppliers over a secure connection.

These services and applications can be delivered and centrally managed within a single device, greatly reducing your administrative burden and lowering the total cost of ownership of your network. With Cisco integrated services routers, you can lay the foundation for future growth and investment protection today and prepare for best-in-class voice, video, wireless, and security solutions tomorrow.

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IP Telephony

A converged network environment should provide a superior level of business resilience and agility, and ERSAnet Business Works IP Telephony solutions do just that. Designed from the ground up for converged network environments, ERSAnet Business Works IP Telephony solutions dramatically enhance communications flexibility and effectiveness.

IP telephony refers to technology that transmits voice communications over a network using IP standards. ERSAnet Business Works provides the infrastructure and feature set for creating a single converged network that can handle voice and data traffic simultaneously. It provides this capability while maintaining a high level of network availability, QoS, and security. Cisco IP phones give customers an exciting new user interface that offers display-based access to features, productivity-enhancing applications, value-added services, and the industry's first Gigabit Ethernet IP Phone. From the company lobby to the desk of the busiest of managers, from the manufacturing floor to the executive suite, at home, on the road, or in the branch—there is a Cisco IP Phone for all.

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Cisco Unified Call Manager Express

Simple, Affordable All-In-One Communications

Cisco Unified Call Manager Express is a solution embedded in Cisco IOS Software that provides call processing for Cisco Unified IP phones. This solution enables the large portfolio of Cisco access and integrated services routers to deliver a comprehensive set of features commonly used by business customers, facilitating the deployment of a cost-effective and highly reliable unified communications solution for the small and mid-sized office.

Cisco Unified Call Manager Express provides the following benefits:

• Cost-effective, converged data and voice solution inside Cisco Integrated Services Routers

• Key system/small PBX features plus innovative convergence applications for up to 240 users

• Intuitive graphical user interface for easy installation, adds, moves, and changes; internetworking with Cisco Unified Call Manager

• Unmatched investment protection for future growth

Customers can now scale IP telephony functionality to a small site or branch office with a solution that is simple to deploy, administer, and maintain. The Cisco Unified Call Manager Express product offers customers a low-cost, reliable, and feature-rich solution for deployment.

Cisco Unity Express

Fully Integrated Voice Mail and Auto Attendant Services for SMBs and Branch Offices

Cisco Unity Express enables small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and enterprise branch offices to cost-effectively integrate voice mail and auto attendant services inside Cisco routers for a lower total cost of ownership and increased employee productivity.

An essential component of the ERSAnet Business Works portfolio, Cisco Unity Express provides:

• Affordable messaging and greeting services for increased customer service and rich employee communications

• Intuitive telephone prompts and a Graphical User Interface for fast, convenient voicemail and auto attendant administration

• Salability from 4 to 16 concurrent voice mail or auto attendant calls and 12 to 120 mailboxes

• Deployment flexibility with Cisco Call Manager Express, Cisco Call Manager, and Cisco Unity systems

• North American English, European French, European Spanish and German language support for international sites

Available as a network module (NM) or advanced integration module (AIM), Cisco Unity Express is a simple addition to Cisco 2600XM, 2691, 2800 Series, 3700 Series, and 3800 Series routers.

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Wireless

ERSAnet Business Works deploys the Cisco Unified Wireless Network, the industry’s only unified wired and wireless solution to cost-effectively address the WLAN security, deployment, management, and control issues facing today’s small and mid-sized businesses. This powerful solution combines the best elements of wireless and wired networking to deliver scalable, manageable, and secure WLANs with a low total cost of ownership. It includes innovative RF capabilities that enable real-time access to core business applications and provides proven enterprise-class secure connectivity. The Cisco Unified Wireless Network delivers the same level of security, salability, reliability, ease of deployment, and management for wireless LANs that organizations expect from their wired LANs.

ERSAnet Business Works’ Unified Wireless Network is an integrated end-to-end solution that addresses all layers of the WLAN, from client devices and access points, to the network infrastructure, to network management, to the delivery of advanced wireless services integration and award-winning, worldwide, 24-hour product support. It delivers the industry’s best wireless LAN security, innovation, and investment protection. It is the only solution to integrate innovative access point technology with an award-winning centralized management system, intelligent control, real-time location services, and a wide array of interoperable Cisco Compatible client devices.

ERSAnet Business Works’ Unified Wireless Network helps reduce overall operational expenses by simplifying network deployment, operations, and management. With this solution, several, hundreds, or thousands of central or remotely located access points can be easily managed from a centralized management console. This flexibility allows network managers to design networks to meet their specific needs, whether implementing highly integrated network designs or simple overlay networks.

Summary

Today’s growing businesses face ongoing challenges in order to remain competitive. ERSAnet Business Works enhances the way you do business by utilizing industry leading Cisco integrated services routers, Call Manger Express, Unity Express, wireless, and security. It helps reduce costs and simplifies management of your network.

With ERSAnet Business Works, you get a seamlessly integrated, completely secure network solution to help you deliver superior customer service and responsiveness, together with the ability to adapt and grow into the future.

ERSAnet Business Works is not the means to an end, but rather part of a technology roadmap that lets your business migrate at your pace to achieve your goals both today and tomorrow.

Contact ERSA Group today to receive an initial consultative meeting. We’ll take the first step in showing you how we can power your network system into a dynamic business advantage.

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