Posts Tagged ‘cisco consulting’

New Cisco Support Partnerships

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Last week, I was invited to a Computer Weekly Roundtable event in Central London. The discussions were about IT Project Management & how to deal with failures. We had very interesting discussions. Amongst the attendees were IT Directors and Senior Project Managers from FTSI 100 companies, but also a few younger companies (incl. ourselves) have been invited. During the coffee breaks people had the opportunity to talk about their businesses. Such events are not only very helpful to listen and learn from other people in the industry, but they are great for networking. Again, mentioning our bespoke Cisco Training offerings to some of the audience sparked a lot of interest. We are already talking to 2 of the attendee’s companies now in order to formalize partnerships where ProNetExpert provides Cisco Expertise and Training.

The rest of the week myself and a new colleague of mine (Russell Barrett) were on the road to see new clients interested in Cisco Consultancy and Cisco Training. We can certainly tell that the economy is taking a serious turn for the better again, which we all been long waiting for. It hasn’t been a bad year for ProNet, but over the last couple of months, we see a sharp increase in requests and we are looking forward to a great 2010.

Martin Voelk
CTO & Founder
ProNetExpert

Free Cisco Wireless Workshop 13.11.2009 | Newsletter 2009

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

ProNetExpert will be delivering a free next generation Wireless Workshop online on November 13th. 2009.
Everyone is welcome to join free via WebEx.

Please also have a look at our October 2009 Newsletter for more information:
http://www.pronetexpert.com/pronetexpert-october2009-newsletter.pdf 

Free 802.11n Wireless Workshop:
Date: Friday, 13. November 2009
Time: 10:00 am UK time
Duration: 2 hours
Delivered Online

Content:
- Next Generation Wireless Networking
- MIMO Technology Overview
- Changes to the Physical Layer
- Changes to the Media Access Control Layer
- 1140 & 1250 Access Points Overview

 

 

PCI Compliance & the Cisco Security Network

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

I am sure you heard the term PCI compliance before. Also surely you will know that Security is quite hard to sell in Europe as it is not being seen as a business enablement tool. It is rather seen as a necessity or a “I must be compliant”. I understand that it is slightly different in the US.

However here in the UK we are seeing a lot of interest in PCI compliance. Not because the customers have additional funds to spare but because banks and other credit card processing organizations are increasing pressure to become compliant by the end of 2010.

Currently we are working with one of our Partners on 2 large retail accounts to become PCI compliant. We are tailoring an all inclusive package to meet the deadline. Hardware, Design, Consultancy & of course tailored high end Cisco Training.  It involves AAA (Cisco ACS), SSH on all boxes, IPS/IDS, NAC, Router & Switch Security as well as Cisco Security Manager and CS MARS.

Apparently the processing bank (a leading UK financial) organization has told the customer that if PCI compliance isn’t met by the end of 2010 there will be a fine of up to £50k per month for every non-compliant month. Ouch!

So it is better worth checking with the financial institutions now before it’s getting to close to the deadline. The beauty for me as the CTO and for our technical Cisco Consultants and Cisco Trainers is the fact that we get to spec, design, implement all the latest and greatest Cisco Security technologies and deliver Training on it.

The timelines are tight, but we have a great team and look forward to those 2 large projects.

Martin Voelk
CTO
ProNetExpert
http://www.pronetexpert.com/cisco-ccie-consulting-consultancy-support-services-security-ironport.html

New Cisco Support & Cisco Training Services Catalogue released

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

London, 29.09.2009

ProNetExpert today released its new product services catalogue for autumn 2009.  What does that mean for our customers? The same great service you know and trust us for.

We have established a lot of new and exciting relationships over the last couple of months and all our customers will benefit from it.

Our new Cisco Support Services offerings are available for download in PDF format at the following link:
http://www.pronetexpert.com/cisco-consulting-training-services-offerings.html 

A few highlights of our Cisco Consultancy & Cisco Training offerings include:

>> Confirmed CCDE written & CCDE lab bootcamps in November 2009 in London. Unlike some competitors, our instructor is a fully certified CCDE and has years of teaching and hands-on experience

>> Great package deals on Cisco Consulting Services (onsite and 24/7 remote support)

>> Really cheap and brand new Cisco Hardware at conditions which are second to none

>> Tailored and bespoke Cisco Training Solutions on all Cisco Technologies. Not only do we povide on-site Cisco Training, we offer all our customized Cisco Training courses to be delivered remotely via WebEx

>> Multilingual Cisco Consultants & Cisco Trainers. We understand that engineers and instuctors in countries like France, Germany or Russia need to speak the local language fluently in addition to their Cisco knowledge. A fact often neglected by English speaking businesses. We have CCIE’s fluent in all major languages. 

 We have some other fantastic deals at the moment.
Contact sales-enquiry@pronetexpert.com or call +44 (0) 20-3287-0044 to find out more

Cisco Support & Cisco Consulting Wireless Reference Project

Friday, July 10th, 2009

ProNetExpert were engaged by a UK government client to set up a 1 week temporary wireless infrastructure. The objective was to enable wireless access for high government officials in order to connect to the Internet and corporate resources from their laptops and other mobile devices.

ProNetExpert’s Cisco Consultants designed a complete solution (Design, Staging, Implementation and Monitoring). The ProNetExpert Cisco Support Team arranged two 34 MB E3 upstreams from a local Service Provider, which ran multihomed BGP and served as the upstream. The Cisco 3800 upstream routers were firewalled off by ASA 5540s. Around 40 Cisco Access Points were deployed (incl. site surveys). The setup also contained various outdoor wireless MESH bridging setups. Users were able to seamlessly roam on Layer 2 and Layer 3 basis and form direct VPN connections into corporate networks from the end devices.

Additionally around 200 VoIP handsets were supplied to enable Voice over WLAN telephony for the attendees. The PBX solution was supplied by a Service Provider and configured and monitored by our Cisco Consultants. The ProNetExpert Cisco Support Team configured comprehensive Quality of Service to provide optimal performance for both Voice and Data Traffic.

Martin Voelk
CCIE # 13708
CTO @ ProNetExpert

Cisco Training & Cisco Consulting from ProNetExpert on twitter.com

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Today ProNetExpert finally launched it’s own twitter stream.
You can also follow us on http://twitter.com/pronetexpert
Subscribe to our twitter stream to stay tuned about Cisco Technology Updates, Job Offers, Cisco Training & Cisco Consulting Offers.

Best regards,
Martin Voelk
CTO
ProNetExpert