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The Truth About Building a Business: Five Reasons to Strengthen the Foundation
Boost productivity and profitability, and surpass competitors simply by strengthening your network foundation. Learn five ways to make your business perform better.

New Cisco Technology
How to make a limited budget work

Employee downtime - humorous video
What are your employees up to when the network goes down?

How to Start a Relationship with a Cisco Reseller
Not sure where to get started? Ask potential partners these five questions about SMB 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.

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.

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

How to Pick the Right Small Business Phone System
Use this quick step guide to determine which small business phone system is best for your business, how to plan for future needs, and who to consult with for help.

Six Ways to Rev Up Your Revenues, Using VoIP
Discover how to use an Internet phone system to win new customers and more sales. Five businesses tell how they handle outbound and inbound calls to increase revenues.

Building a Small Office Network
Building a small office network means starting with a foundation of switches and routers.

Build an end-to-end network
An end-to-end Cisco network provides the security, bandwidth, upgrade flexibility and support for your business needs. Here are some key things to keep in mind when considering one.

Networking Basics What You Need To Know
When looking at networking basics, understanding the way a network operates is the first step to understanding routing and switching.

Networking Solutions for Small Business
Networking solutions for small business can keep your employees connected and productive whether they are

Small Business Communication System: Three Reasons to Consider
Get an overview of how a small business communication system can improve day-to-day operations by providing easy access to all your applications, enhanced collaboration tools, and a flexible foundation for future growth.

Small Business Phone Systems from Cisco
Collaborate in real time using a variety of applications from one easy-to-use interface. Small business phone systems from Cisco give you cost-effective and powerful communications capabilities.

How to Start a Relationship with a Cisco Reseller
Not sure where to get started? Ask potential partners these five questions about SMB solutions.

The Power of Connections
Find out how Cisco Unified Communications and a virtual private network (VPN) can keep your most vital resource connected and productive no matter where they are.

Small Business Networking: The Basics
Find out how a secure network foundation can change your business.

The Five Productivity Benefits of a Secure Network
A secure Cisco network foundation can help you continue to enhance your company's productivity in five ways.

Unsung Heroes - How Routing & Switching Keep the Business Going
Routers and switches can improve a company's bottom line by enabling your company to increase productivity, cut business costs, and improve security and customer service.

Get Ahead with a Business Communications Network
By combining voice, video, and data on a single network, you can cut costs and do more. Learn how.

Using Your Phone for Competitive Advantage
Help your business work smarter, faster and more effectively with a small-business phone system from Cisco.

Use VoIP to Do More with Less
Enjoy the speed, flexibility, and security of unified communications on your own network.

Learn What VoIP Can Do for You
VoIP helps improve productivity and efficiency. Learn how it can help you.

Service Please: Five Tips for Easy, Affordable Tech Support
Small businesses share how they get technical support that brings them peace of mind when using advanced technologies. Their strategies also save them time and money.

10 Top Tips
Turn the downturn to your advantage with 10 tips for surviving tough economic times.

Problem Solver Guide to Financing Technology Purchases
Discover the advantages of various finance options

Why improve networking?
How to work smarter, not harder

Go Green with Ease Five Steps for Small Businesses
Smart information technology (IT) practices can reduce the environmental impact of conducting business, and help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) reduce expenses.

How to Start a Relationship with a Cisco Reseller
Not sure where to get started? Ask potential partners these five questions about SMB solutions.

Cisco Smart Storage with Mozy: a safe combination 
How Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions provide the ultimate in Data Protection and Disaster Recovery in one combined solution.

Network Storage Leads to Small Business Success 
Powerful centralised storage gives business a data-led advantage

Six Reasons to Get Smarter About Storage 
Find out why smarter businesses are choosing Network Attached Storage (NAS)

How to Improve Your Social Media Security: An Introduction
Learn basic steps that employees must take to protect your business against the biggest security risks in social networking: data leakage and viruses. Dangers grow daily - begin your defense now.

Get a Head Start on Future Security Challenges
Who knows what the future will bring? Perhaps your company will add new employees or locations, merge with another company, or enter new markets where security is highly regulated.

New Cisco Technology
Check out the latest affordable IP technology.

5 top tips
Safeguard your assets and customer data - whilst reducing costs.

10 Security Tips

New: Storage Solution
Want to protect and back-up your data? Discover 7 vital features of a good storage solution.

Five Steps Toward Disaster Preparedness
For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the impacts of a disaster can result in loss of or lack of access to data, applications, and work facilities.

Securing your business
Expert advice from Research International

Advice you can trust
Get the peace of mind you need from your network with this whitepaper

How Security Pays Off
Network security has become a requirement for businesses, especially those that rely on the Internet. Your customers, vendors and business partners probably expect you to protect any information they share with you.

Network Security for Small Business
Network security for small business is becoming increasingly complex, as new Internet threats appear daily or even hourly.

Small Business Firewall Frequently Asked Questions
Small business firewall software is one method used to protect computers against hacker attacks and other Internet threats.

Small Business Network Solution The Basics
Small business network solution technologies can offer big benefits.

How to Start a Relationship with a Cisco Reseller
Not sure where to get started? Ask potential partners these five questions about SMB solutions.

The Self-Defending Network
Find out how Cisco's self-defending network can safeguard your entire business.

As Strong as the Weakest Link
A step-by-step approach for building a powerful, flexible, and highly secure network.

What is Network Security?
Your computer network requires the same level of protection - if not more - than your office and its equipment.

Align the Business with the Right Security Technology
Find out how to match the needs of your business with the right security technologies.

Eight Strategies for First-rate Customer Service
These eight strategies will create relationships with your customers that will keep them coming back.

How to Start a Relationship with a Cisco Reseller
Not sure where to get started? Ask potential partners these five questions about SMB 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.

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.

More for less
From vineyards to job agencies, small businesses are getting more from their networks with wireless. Find out 3 affordable ways you can do the same.

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.

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 SMB 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.