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Cisco Designed portfolio expands to focus on empowering small businesses for the “New Normal”
28 May, 2020

New products and solutions help with today’s most pressing challenges
- Technology to help businesses work from home securely and new hybrid work environments
- Easy to install networking devices now at the right price point to help businesses grow and scale
- Simple management tools that work from your phone
- Work from home: how to meet and collaborate with employees and customers securely
- Cybercrime protection: how to safeguard from identity theft, hackers and internet attacks
- Always-on business: how to provide easy installation and reliable IT services using cloud technology
- Workplace monitoring: how to enable safe social distancing and real time monitoring
- Future or new office: how to improve productivity and security at shared physical workspaces
- Webex Work- a complete cloud collaboration solution that combines calling, meeting and messaging services in a single subscription, with attractive flexible monthly pricing for small businesses. Modern collaboration tools have become a must-have in the new normal, enabling people to be productive from anywhere, keeping employees connected, and ensuring work moves forward. With per user/per month Webex licenses starting at $19.95/month, this is priced competitively for small businesses.
- Enhanced email security – email remains the number one threat vector for all businesses. Learn more about how Cisco is enhancing email security next week at CiscoLive!
- Cisco Business Dashboard – a new version of the network management tool with a streamlined user interface to manage the entire network with integrated lifecycle management and automated alerting. With zero-touch plug and play deployment, and hosted in the cloud or on premises, it allows organizations to set-up, monitor and operate network devices from a simple interface on any device.
- New Cisco Business Switches- many businesses will be re-evaluating their office footprint in the new normal. New switches in the Cisco Designed portfolio provide flexible, easy to set up, secure connectivity for businesses who are powering connections across a remote and in office workforce. The two new series of switches provide essential functionality along with advanced security options all while priced to appeal to small businesses.
- Tools to manage your network in the Cloud –Cisco Meraki Health and Meraki Insight allows customers to monitor all aspects of the network and applications from their Meraki Dashboard and API as well as detect and fix issues in a matter of minutes. This is a new addition to the Cisco Designed portfolio and will help small businesses easily monitor and troubleshoot their network infrastructure in the cloud