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  • Four Reasons Why Businesses Improve Their Networking New!

    Being smart about ways to use digital technology makes a business work better. Here some Cisco customers share why, and how, they got smarter with their data, voice, and video networking. See if their results match any goals you have for your business.

  • Top 10 Tips to Maintain and Grow your Business in a Downturn New!

    For SMEs, keeping a eye on the core business, maintaining a healthy cash position, reducing operating expenses, increasing efficiency and strengthening existing supplier and customer relationships will all go a fair way to help ensure your business weathers today's tough economic climate.

  • What Is a Network Switch? New!

    Learn what a network switch is and how it differs from a router.

  • Successful Technology aquistion during harsh economic times

    The fact that finances are tightening is a compelling reason to revisit the proven fundamentals and excellent business controls that can enable an organization to grow its business regardless of the state of the economy.

  • Ten Tips for Increasing Operational Efficiency

    To remain competitive in an increasingly competitive world, businesses must boost operational efficiency wherever possible.

  • Small Business VOIP - The Basics

    Keeping your employees connected to people and information anytime, anywhere is a big step toward Small business VoIP, or voice over Internet Protocol. In essence, small business VoIP combines voice and data together on a single, secure network foundation. The following is a guide to why you might want to consider a small business VoIP system.

  • Cisco Unified Communications and the Smart Business Communications Architecture.

    In today's complex and highly competitive business environment, communications and IT decision makers in small to midsized businesses (SMBs) face a number of unique challenges. How do they weave network technologies and business applications into comprehensive, integrated solutions that address key business challenges such as operational efficiency and customer responsiveness?

  • The Power of Connections.

    Keeping your employees connected to people and information anytime, anywhere is a big step toward making your business more efficient. And it's especially important for small and medium-sized businesses like yours.

  • Take Your Customer Service to the Next Level.

    Are you providing your customers with the satisfying experience that will keep them coming back? In a marketplace where too many products and services are chasing too little demand, businesses face a daunting challenge: do everything possible to attract and retain customers.

  • Fast and Cost effective Unified Communications.

    The success of your company depends on maintaining open lines of communication with customers and between personnel. Such information sharing may take many forms - through wired and mobile telephone calls, e-mails and Instant Messaging, and video conferencing.

  • VoIP with an Analog Phone

    The Cisco PAP2T Internet Phone Adapter gives small businesses the advantages of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) using analog phones.

  • Small Phone Systems: The Basics

    Which small phone systems will work for your business? Get an overview of the benefits that IP-based small phone systems offer, including better productivity, cost savings, and a host of advanced features.

  • Office Phone System: Designed to Help You Grow

    See how an IP-based office phone system can help you reduce administrative costs, be more productive, collaborate better, and deliver superior customer service with advanced technologies that give your company the same communication tools that your larger competitors have.

  • How to Start a Relationship with a Cisco Reseller

    Not sure where to get started? Ask potential partners these five questions about small business solutions.

  • Ten Tips for Making Your Business More Efficient

    These 10 tips will help you work more efficiently, cut costs, improve customer satisfaction, and stay ahead of the competition.

  • Productivity Begins with a Secure Network

    Learn how a secure network, coupled with the power of wireless and IP communications, can make your business faster, smarter, and more adaptable.

  • Business Productivity: Preparing for a Boost

    Help your company transition to a network with advanced communications tools, such as Cisco Unified Communications and video conferencing, by following these seven steps.

  • Unified Communications Offers Value to Small and Medium-Size Businesses - Manufacturing Companies

    Survey conducted with over 350 Manufacturing companies around effectiveness, business value of Unified Communications.

  • Productivity Perks of a Secure Network

    Collaborate with customers. Go global. Stay in touch around the clock. These are just some of the benefits that a secure Cisco network foundation can help your company achieve.

  • What You Need to Know About Voice and Conferencing

    As your business grows, IP-based communications technology can provide the tools to help your business succeed.

  • Small Business Phone System: Business Benefits

    Learn how businesses are taking advantage of voice, conferencing, and Cisco Unified Communications solutions.

  • Small Office Phone System: Getting Started

    Before getting started with voice and conferencing, think about these five considerations.

  • PBX Providing Business Value?

    Learn why businesses are finding value by moving their Small Business PBX systems toward unified communications solutions with IP PBX functionality.

  • Next-generation Office Phone System

    With next-generation small office PBX systems, small businesses have the type of communications systems their larger competitors have, in a solution that's built especially for their needs and budgets.

  • Why Evolve Your Office Phone System

    Learn about the benefits of an advanced small office pbx phone system.

  • Adding IP to Small Office PBX Telephone Systems

    Instead of requiring two networks, next-generation small office PBX telephone systems only need one—which simplifies network management and administration costs.

  • Do What You Want with Your Phone System

    A flexible phone system lets you connect employees and customers, enable collaboration, and access information from anywhere.

  • Big Benefits for Your Small Business

    Voice, data and even video applications are all possible with a small office phone system. Learn what one can do for your business.

  • Voice over IP FAQ

    Find answers to questions that small businesses frequently ask about Voice over Internet Protocol (IP) and unified communications.

  • What is Voice over IP

    What is voice over IP? How is it different from unified communications? And how can it help your small business?

  • Small Office Phone System: Basic and Affordable

    Learn how a small office phone system on a converged network makes basic and sophisticated business communications more affordable and effective.

  • Buyers Guide for Small Business Phone Systems

    This buyer's guide helps small business owners decide which phone system is best for their business needs.

     

Connect Employees and Offices

Do Business Better

  • Four Reasons Why Businesses Improve Their Networking New!

    Being smart about ways to use digital technology makes a business work better. Here some Cisco customers share why, and how, they got smarter with their data, voice, and video networking. See if their results match any goals you have for your business.

  • Top 10 Tips to Maintain and Grow your Business in a Downturn New!

    For SMEs, keeping a eye on the core business, maintaining a healthy cash position, reducing operating expenses, increasing efficiency and strengthening existing supplier and customer relationships will all go a fair way to help ensure your business weathers today's tough economic climate.

  • How to Get Ahead in a Challenging Economy New!

    In this economy, there are so many challenges that it's tough to know where to focus. Here are some key tactics that can help you succeed.

  • Business Communication Tools for Tough Times New!

    Right now, getting the most from your IT budget is critical. Find out what you should focus on to make your employees more productive and your business more competitive.

  • Successful Technology aquistion during harsh economic times

    The fact that finances are tightening is a compelling reason to revisit the proven fundamentals and excellent business controls that can enable an organization to grow its business regardless of the state of the economy.

  • Ten Tips for Increasing Operational Efficiency

    To remain competitive in an increasingly competitive world, businesses must boost operational efficiency wherever possible.

  • Small Business VOIP - The Basics

    Keeping your employees connected to people and information anytime, anywhere is a big step toward Small business VoIP, or voice over Internet Protocol, is getting a lot of attention these days. In essence, small business VoIP combines voice and data together on a single, secure network foundation. The following is a guide to why you might want to consider a small business VoIP system.

  • Cisco Unified Communications and the Smart Business Communications Architecture.

    In today's complex and highly competitive business environment, communications and IT decision makers in small to midsized businesses (SMBs) face a number of unique challenges. How do they weave network technologies and business applications into comprehensive, integrated solutions that address key business challenges such as operational efficiency and customer responsiveness?

  • The Power of Connections.

    Keeping your employees connected to people and information anytime, anywhere is a big step toward making your business more efficient. And it's especially important for small and medium-sized businesses like yours.

  • Fast and Cost effective Unified Communications.

    The success of your company depends on maintaining open lines of communication with customers and between personnel. Such information sharing may take many forms - through wired and mobile telephone calls, e-mails and Instant Messaging, and video conferencing.

  • Succeeding in a Changing Business Climate

    Peace of Mind for the Life of Your Business Cisco solutions let you focus on your business - not the network

  • Beat the recession 10 top tips

    For SMEs, keeping a eye on the core business, maintaining a healthy cash position, reducing operating expenses, increasing efficiency and strengthening existing supplier and customer relationships will all go a fair way to help ensure your business weathers todays tough economic climate.

  • Take Your Customer Service to the Next Level

    Are you providing your customers with the satisfying experience that will keep them coming back? In a marketplace where too many products and services are chasing too little demand, businesses face a daunting challenge: do everything possible to attract and retain customers.

  • Get Attached for Better Performance

    Network Attached Storage centralizes data from multiple application servers and quickly pays for itself.

  • Tax Planning Tips for 2009

    Check out these tips for finding, protecting and reporting the data that your business needs to file its returns.

  • Do More with Less: Wireless

    Use your network's capabilities to increase productivity, efficiency, and connectivity. These clever tips will pay for themselves.

  • Where Are You? Search Engine Strategies That Bring Customers to Your Business

    The key is in the keywords. Find the right ones and reap the benefits of scoring top listings.

  • Who Knows You? Social Networking Brings Buzz, Cost Savings, and Customers

    Online communities make marketing to your target very efficient. Find out how to take advantage of this boon to your business.

  • Oh, What a Difference My Technology Makes

    Reap big benefits from better networking. See the four main ways that improved networking can help your business.

  • Master Doing More with Less

    Sometimes less really is more. Discover four major ways that standardizing your technology can help ensure that your business stays up and running.

  • Hands-Free Management

    Discover the ultimate solution to your IT management headaches. Managed services provide top-of-the line support while saving you thousands of dollars a month.

  • How "Green" Are Your Digits?

    Dare to transcend the eco-hype and do things differently. Take this quick quiz to see if you're a green master or just a novice--and learn how to make your IT operations more energy and cost efficient.

  • "Green" Communications: Help or Hype?

    Explore green solutions such as telecommuting and web conferencing, to boost employee productivity and cut operating costs.

  • The Global Small Business

    Learn how Cisco Unified Communications can help small and medium-sized businesses compete on a global scale.

  • How to Start a Relationship with a Cisco Reseller

    Not sure where to get started? Ask potential partners these five questions about small business solutions.

  • Go Green with Ease: Five Steps for Small IT Shops

    Five ways resource-strapped IT shops can save money and help the environment.

  • Business Loans for Women

    Find out how Cisco is supporting the Make Mine a Million $ Business program, which offers business loans for women.

  • Ms. Million Dollar Business

    Cisco is technology sponsor for Make Mine a Million $ Business, a program supporting women business owners with loans and technology.

  • The Building Blocks for Growth

    Find out what tools are required for a company with 20 employees to grow to 100 employees within one year.

  • Big Things from Small Companies

    Cisco's Supplier Diversity Business Development Program works to expand its network of small and diverse suppliers, both domestically and internationally.

  • The Benefits of a Cisco Partnership

    When it comes to using your network for success, it's not only what you know, it's who you know.

     

Secure My Business

Serve Customers Better

  • Four Reasons Why Businesses Improve Their Networking New!

    Being smart about ways to use digital technology makes a business work better. Here some Cisco customers share why, and how, they got smarter with their data, voice, and video networking. See if their results match any goals you have for your business.

  • Top 10 Tips to Maintain and Grow your Business in a Downturn New!

    For SMEs, keeping a eye on the core business, maintaining a healthy cash position, reducing operating expenses, increasing efficiency and strengthening existing supplier and customer relationships will all go a fair way to help ensure your business weathers today's tough economic climate.

  • Successful Technology aquistion during harsh economic times

    The fact that finances are tightening is a compelling reason to revisit the proven fundamentals and excellent business controls that can enable an organization to grow its business regardless of the state of the economy.

  • Ten Tips for Increasing Operational Efficiency

    To remain competitive in an increasingly competitive world, businesses must boost operational efficiency wherever possible.

  • Small Business VOIP - The Basics

    Keeping your employees connected to people and information anytime, anywhere is a big step toward Small business VoIP, or voice over Internet Protocol, is getting a lot of attention these days. In essence, small business VoIP combines voice and data together on a single, secure network foundation. The following is a guide to why you might want to consider a small business VoIP system.

  • Cisco Unified Communications and the Smart Business Communications Architecture.

    In today's complex and highly competitive business environment, communications and IT decision makers in small to midsized businesses (SMBs) face a number of unique challenges. How do they weave network technologies and business applications into comprehensive, integrated solutions that address key business challenges such as operational efficiency and customer responsiveness?

  • The Power of Connections.

    Keeping your employees connected to people and information anytime, anywhere is a big step toward making your business more efficient. And it's especially important for small and medium-sized businesses like yours.

  • Networking made easy: read our online guide on getting the basics right.

    Networks connect your world securely, reliably and more efficiently. People in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) regularly connect with others who are vital to their success. Customers bring income. Partners, such as contractors and suppliers, provide services and products for daily operations. Prospects are vital for growth and new opportunities. And employees are the brains, hands, eyes, and ears that make a business successful.

  • Fast and Cost effective Unified Communications.

    The success of your company depends on maintaining open lines of communication with customers and between personnel. Such information sharing may take many forms - through wired and mobile telephone calls, e-mails and Instant Messaging, and video conferencing.

  • Beat the recession 10 top tips

    For SMEs, keeping a eye on the core business, maintaining a healthy cash position, reducing operating expenses, increasing efficiency and strengthening existing supplier and customer relationships will all go a fair way to help ensure your business weathers todays tough economic climate.

  • Take Your Customer Service to the Next Level

    Are you providing your customers with the satisfying experience that will keep them coming back? In a marketplace where too many products and services are chasing too little demand, businesses face a daunting challenge: do everything possible to attract and retain customers.

  • Eight Strategies for First-rate Customer Service

    These eight strategies will create relationships with your customers that will keep them coming back.

  • The Basics of Serving Customers Better

    Customer satisfaction starts when you offer both a trouble-free shopping experience and a smooth business transaction. But you also have to anticipate and meet your customers' wants, not just needs.

  • How to Start a Relationship with a Cisco Reseller

    Not sure where to get started? Ask potential partners these five questions about small business solutions.

  • Upgrading Your Network for CRM? Six Things to Consider

    Thinking about adding customer relationship management tools to your Cisco Unified Communications phone system? Here are six things to consider before you upgrade your network.

  • Serve Your Customer Better

    Find out how customer relationship management (CRM) software and wireless connectivity can help your small business improve productivity, respond to customers quickly, and generate new business.

  • Unified Communications Offers Value To Small And Medium-Size Businesses - Financial Services

    Cisco commissioned Forrester Research to survey 374 companies to quantify how unified communications (UC) affect the small and medium-size business sector.

  • Tech Solutions for Success

    By using technology to serve your business needs, you can find a small-business solution that's just your size.

  • Small Business Phones

    Hear how small business phones using VoIP, unified messaging, video and other applications can help improve your customer relationships.

  • VoIP Can Reduce Operating Expenses

    VoIP can dramatically reduce expenses and give you consistent quality of service and stronger security controls.

  • How Voice over IP Works

    How Voice over IP works for your business is simple: By adding voice to a data network, you'll reduce costs, improve productivity, and enhance collaboration.

  • Get an Edge with Cisco IP Phones

    When you join video, voice, and data together on your own easy-to-manage network, you can be much more productive.

     

Work from Anywhere

  • Four Reasons Why Businesses Improve Their Networking New!

    Being smart about ways to use digital technology makes a business work better. Here some Cisco customers share why, and how, they got smarter with their data, voice, and video networking. See if their results match any goals you have for your business.

  • Top 10 Tips to Maintain and Grow your Business in a Downturn New!

    For SMEs, keeping a eye on the core business, maintaining a healthy cash position, reducing operating expenses, increasing efficiency and strengthening existing supplier and customer relationships will all go a fair way to help ensure your business weathers today's tough economic climate.

  • What Is a Wireless Local Area Network (LAN): WLAN FAQ New!

    Learn what a wireless LAN is, the equipment you'll need, and the benefits you can expect.

  • Successful Technology aquistion during harsh economic times

    The fact that finances are tightening is a compelling reason to revisit the proven fundamentals and excellent business controls that can enable an organization to grow its business regardless of the state of the economy.

  • The Virtual Office Checklist

    Here are some things to consider when choosing Cisco SMB Solutions that enable you and your colleagues to work from anywhere. Adding a VPN and firewall enables the security you need.

  • Ten Tips for Increasing Operational Efficiency

    To remain competitive in an increasingly competitive world, businesses must boost operational efficiency wherever possible.

  • Small Business VOIP - The Basics

    Keeping your employees connected to people and information anytime, anywhere is a big step toward Small business VoIP, or voice over Internet Protocol, is getting a lot of attention these days. In essence, small business VoIP combines voice and data together on a single, secure network foundation. The following is a guide to why you might want to consider a small business VoIP system.

  • Cisco Unified Communications and the Smart Business Communications Architecture.

    In today’s complex and highly competitive business environment, communications and IT decision makers in small to midsized businesses (SMBs) face a number of unique challenges. How do they weave network technologies and business applications into comprehensive, integrated solutions that address key business challenges such as operational efficiency and customer responsiveness?

  • Fast and Cost effective Unified Communications.

    The success of your company depends on maintaining open lines of communication with customers and between personnel. Such information sharing may take many forms - through wired and mobile telephone calls, e-mails and Instant Messaging, and video conferencing.

  • The VPN Router that is Affordable and Wireless

    The Cisco WRV200, part of Cisco Small Business Routers, is a Virtual Private Networking (VPN) router that is easy to install and maintain, and grows with your small business.

  • Small Office Phones: The Benefits

    Get an overview of the benefits that small office phones can deliver when connected to an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

  • Small Business VoIP: The Basics

    See how combining voice and data on a single, secure network foundation with a small business voice over IP (VoIP) system can help you meet your biggest business challenges.

  • Your Small Business Network from Cisco

    Learn more about how a small business network can give you the secure, flexible, and cost-effective foundation you need to be productive and competitive.

  • Work Wherever You Want

    Today's network lets you stay connected, access data, and make business decisions regardless of where you are. Learn about these and other benefits to working from anywhere.

  • The Virtual Office Checklist

    Begin by covering access, security and flexibility.

  • Building Your Network for Growth and Innovation

    Some tips to make sure your network will grow alongside your business.

  • What is a Wireless Network?

    Find out how small businesses are using both wireless networks and WiFi hotspots to stay in touch with co-workers, customers, and partners, regardless of where they are.

  • How to Start a Relationship with a Cisco Reseller

    Not sure where to get started? Ask potential partners these five questions about small business solutions.

  • Five Reasons to Go Wireless

    Learn five reasons businesses are taking advantage of wireless LANs.

  • Wireless Networking: Five Questions to Start With

    Once it's clear how a wireless LAN can help your business, these five considerations will help you get the project off the ground.

  • The Network Effect: Productivity

    Find out how a small-business network from Cisco Systems can help you increase productivity without increasing your workforce.

     

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