Whether you’re looking to upgrade your network infrastructure, combat emergent cyber threats, or take workplace communication and collaboration to the next level, Crossconnect is the partner you can trust. Every day, we’re implementing custom solutions that harness the latest systems and products from Cisco and other industry resources—bringing our clients the peace of mind of a reliable and scalable IT foundation, freeing them up to focus on their business.

Collaboration

Call Manager

Collaboration is Crossconnect’s oldest and most mature services offering. We’ve designed and supported installations as small as 30 users and as large as 10,000+ users. We support and sell a wide variety of products to fit the diverse needs of our clients, offering the full range of Cisco Collaboration technology as well as a wide variety of 3rd-party ecosystems partners.

According to IHS, Cisco dominates the on-premises phone system market, with well over double the sales of the nearest competitor. As such, our clients can be confident that they’re receiving an industry standard platform that ensures:

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Contact Center Express

Cisco Unified Contact Center Express (“UCCX”) is the call center software for the Cisco collaboration platform. It delivers skill-based call routing for mid-market businesses, serving anywhere between a few agents up to 400 agents. What can it do for your business?

Crossconnect has multiple engineers well-versed in designing and building UCCX environments, and can provide 24/7 managed services for your mission critical contact center.

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Expressway

Cisco Expressway provides a type of proxy between your network edge and the general internet. Common use cases include:

Crossconnect has performed dozens of Expressway installations in complex environments, and we’d love to show you how it can streamline your business communications.

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WebEx Calling & WebEx Contact Center

Crossconnect is certified in both Webex Calling and Webex Contact Center. With Cisco’s Broadsoft acquisition, the Cisco Collaboration reach isn’t just on-premises any longer. Whether expanding an existing Call Manager into a hybrid cloud deployment, or starting fresh with an all-cloud install, Crossconnect has the experience to make it happen.

Crossconnect was one of the first Cisco providers to become Webex Contact Center (WCC) certified, and pioneered direct cloud-carrier options into WCC, even before it was supported. Crossconnect can bring that pioneering spirit to your install, too.

8×8 Cloud Calling Solutions

8×8 is a leader in business voice, video, chat, and contact center. Crossconnect is an authorized partner for 8×8, as well as offering managed and professional services on their platform. As a Leader in the UCaaS Gartner Magic Quadrant it fits naturally in Crossconnect’s calling solutions.

8×8 offers voice integration with Microsoft Teams natively, so end users can retain their preferred Teams interface –  desktop app, web app or the mobile app –  to make and receive calls seamlessly via the 8×8 infrastructure with no other app to download, install or manage.

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API Coding / SDx

Crossconnect engineers have written many commercial-grade applications and integrations into the Call Manager ecosystem APIs. Most notably, many of our recent efforts have been to expose what is traditionally a “superuser” function to admin staff, without actually having to grant superuser access to that person. In addition, our applications take a series of common tasks and assemble them to eliminate misconfiguration errors. Through this, we’re moving the needle in improving our clients’ system security.

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Quality Management & Recording

Cisco’s rebranded Calabrio offering—referred to as Cisco Quality Management (QM)—is a pairing with Cisco Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX, typically integrated as a call recording tool for UCCX agents. However, its full potential extends to supervisor management of agents, and, with the Workforce Management (WFM) suite, call center agent schedule management. Crossconnect can help your business unlock that potential.

We’re also experts in Imagicle’s product line, offering advanced capabilities in call queuing, reporting and faxing. Not sure which way to go? We’ll help you find the best fit for your business.

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Video Conferencing

Telepresence/Room Kits
Business is more interconnected than ever before, and Crossconnect can help ensure your company remains on the cutting-edge of video conferencing technology. Through Cisco’s Webex Room systems and TelePresence hardware, we can help transform your conference room into a high-tech hub with wireless presentation, digital whiteboarding, and highquality audio and video. Learn more here.

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SIP Consulting

Nobody knows SIP like Crossconnect. Stemming from experience in writing 3rd-party software integrations, we’ve since transitioned into consulting SIP integrations into the Cisco platform.

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Paging / Emergency Systems

Singlewire Informacast provides phone-to-phone group live audio paging to both Cisco IP phones as well as overhead paging systems. Crossconnect has extensive experience with performing both to-the-phone and overhead paging with Singlewire in complex, mission-critical environments such as health care.

We’re also an early adopter of Informacast Fusion, a new product combining the power of mobile and on-premises devices to reach everyone in your organization, every time. We can assist with both mass notification and safety system integration.

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Webex

Worry-free online meetings? You got it! With nearly 30% of web conferencing market share, Cisco Webex is the leading enterprise solution for a reason—offering industry standard video conferencing, online meetings, screen share and webinars. Want smarter, more interactive collaboration for meetings of all shapes and sizes? Crossconnect can get you equipped with the latest in Webex Room devices. We’d also be happy to introduce you to Webex Share, a palm-sized device that plugs into any TV or monitor to instantly turn it into a wireless presentation screen through the Cisco Webex app.

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Wallboards

Crossconnect is proud to represent Inova for custom Call Center wallboard application development. We’ll help your Call Center managers harness the power of data through delivery of customized real-time KPIs along with multimedia content and corporate information. From LCD and Plasma displays to custom output on mobile devices such as Apple, Microsoft or Android tablets and smartphones, Inova has you covered.

We also produce an in-house wallboard based on standard UCCX reporting tools, that can be quickly deployed and at a reasonable cost. We’re here to help you find the right solution for your unique needs.

Datacenter

UCS

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Hyperconverged

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VMWare Virtualization

Crossconnect employs multiple VCPs, and has a mature VMWare Virtualization practice. Unique to Crossconnect’s practice is its experience with implementing ESXi with DevOps and SDN applications. Crossconnect has written and deployed production PowerCLI and Ansible integrations; as well as ACI and vCenter integrations.

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Microsoft Server Infrastructure

Crossconnect supports infrastructure down through the server operating system, with a professional and managed service practice in the Microsoft Server space. We support on-premise, cloud and hybrid cloud implementations of Active Directory, Exchange, Sharepoint, and most other common Microsoft Server products. In the cloud space, let Crossconnect provide MDM services through Microsoft Intune.

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F5 Load Balancing & Security

Crossconnect is an authorized F5 partner, with many years’ experience in load balancing and Web Application Firewall (WAF) experience.

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Ansible Automation

In addition to having on-staff programmers versed in many programming languages that can write directly to application APIs, Crossconnect has an Ansible practice for playbook automation.

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Software Defined Networking

Network

Campus Fabric / DNA

Cisco’s forward-thinking vision of the network is based around the Digital Network Architecture (DNA). Historically, Cisco has not been well-known for centralized management tools, or with management GUIs—with DNA, Cisco has flipped the script on that notion and has the industry rethinking enterprise networking as a whole.

One of the most interesting components of DNA is SD Access. Using ISE, DNA determines the user’s identity. Then, using overlay transports, the layer 3 and layer 2 links can follow the user. In this fashion, the user could maintain the same IP address cross-campus, whereas an IP Address change would’ve previously been required. This means a consistent user experience can be preserved cross-campus. If that sounds like something that might benefit your organization, let us know—Crossconnect is an early adopter and can advise on deployment that fits your needs.

Learn more about this exciting, evolving technology here.

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Enterprise Networking

Cisco is synonymous with enterprise networking. Cisco’s latest switch offering, which is the largest product launch in Cisco’s history, is the Catalyst 9000 series. It is designed for Cisco’s Digital Network Architecture, and features innovation for SD Access and Encrypted Threat Analytics, as well as network programmability.

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Wireless

Crossconnect offers sales and support of Cisco, Meraki Wireless and HPE Aruba, as well as conducting nationwide active site surveys. Our experience includes outdoor high-density site surveys and designs for challenging mixed guest/corporate access

Why Cisco?

Easily view and manage your network.  Cisco DNA Center is the workhorse behind your Cisco network, allowing you deeper management and insight to your network. You can automate your workflow, enhance the customer experience, and quickly detect and stop threats with policy design and provisioning all controlled from one place. DNA’s analytics will show you real-time user and application behavior, giving you that deeper look into your network.

Location Based Services.  Cisco DNA Spaces is a scalable locations platform that leverages your existing wi-fi infrastructure to centralize location services. With spaces you can monitor for population density, investigate self-reported incidents, drive a contactless experience, and utilize wayfinding technology for your end users. Spaces can integrate with a wide variety of 3^rd party software vendors too, allowing you more flexibility.

Why Meraki?

Wireless without the complexity.Meraki delivers full enterprise-grade wireless without the “nerd knobs” – all the wireless features a large company needs without the high-end skillset needed to build out a traditional Wireless LAN Controller.

Skip the on-premises controller, get more features. Meraki’s multitenant cloud controls your APs for you – and allows for great deployment features like plug-and-play. Also, traffic reporting such as Netflow are collected and reported in the cloud, instead of requiring a 3^rd-party server.

Seamless Updates Keep You Current.Firmware and dashboard updates are pushed seamlessly from the cloud to all your Cisco Meraki devices without any pre-staging, manual downloads, or trips onsite to install patches.

Why Aruba?

Multiple Deployment Options.  Aruba offers quite a bit of flexibility in how to deploy and manage their APs.  For users looking for a cloud managed option, Aruba Central can manage both Aruba APs and Aruba access switching.  For local control, Aruba’s controllers are available in both hardware and virtual options.  Virtual options can be deployed in local virtualization infrastructure or in a public cloud environment as needed. 

Policy Enforcement Firewall (PEF).  The PEF provides full NGFW capabilities on Aruba controllers that allow for internal segmentation capabilities.  The PEF integrates with Active Directory, RADIUS, or LDAP service to provide a user-based security policy.  The PEF also supports application-based firewall rules, so modern applications which all work over common protocols like HTTPS can be identified and access controlled as needed.  For users of Aruba access switching, the controller can also act as an internal segmentation firewall for wired traffic as well – in this mode, the switch is managed and treated like an AP.

Flexible Licensing without Subscriptions.  For on-premises controllers, Aruba does not require the use of subscription services.  AP licenses, base PEF licenses, and wireless IPS/RFProtect licenses are all perpetual.  A few licenses, however, are subscription – cloud-managed APs via Aruba Central are naturally a subscription service, and for the PEF, there is an optional subscription service to enable URL filtering, geoblocking, and IP reputation capabilities. A

Security

Next Generation Firewalling

Crossconnect sells and supports the industry’s two leading next-generation firewalls, Cisco (Firepower & ASA) and Palo Alto. Of note, these are the only manufacturers that overlap in our product line—we’re fluent in both in order to fit the diverse needs of our clients. We’ll help you determine which option is the right fit for your organization.

Cisco
Cisco sets the bar when it comes to complete end-to-end threat solutions. All Cisco security solutions have integrations to share data—and when integrating with Stealthwatch, ISE, AMP For Endpoints, and other major Cisco security products, the results are unparalleled. Learn more about Cisco firewalls here.

Palo Alto
Palo Alto offers one of the most powerful, yet easiest to manage, firewalls on the market. Crossconnect has multiple PCNSEs, Palo Alto’s top certification, and provides 24×7 support in its Palo Alto practice. Crossconnect’s mature practice includes multiple successful installs implementing Palo Alto Firewalls with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).

Palo Alto TRAPS is a cloud-based endpoint protection client that provides best-of-breed security down to the desktop, blocking malware, exploits and ransomware.

Best Practice Assessments

Palo Alto Best Practice Assessments (BPA) assess your current PA firewalls against hundreds of best practice configurations that Palo Alto has found to ensure the highest security in your PA firewalls. BPA’s allow a company to continuously improve their PA firewall configuration and threat surface over time ensuring that every day they are more secure then the last. BPA’s will give you an insight into your security control adoption over time as well as give you a list of PA best practices that you are not conforming to and instructions on how to remediate.

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Advanced Malware Protection

As part of Cisco’s next-generation firewall feature set, Crossconnect also recommends running Advanced Malware Protection (AMP). In short, the best way to think of AMP’s functionality is like an advanced virus scanner. AMP is available as both AMP for Networks (AMP4N) and AMP for Endpoints (AMP4E). When deployed as AMP4N, the Firewall itself detects and blocks malicious content. When deployed as AMP4E, the endpoint communicates with the AMP cloud and protects against malicious content. When deployed together, a full network and endpoint trajectory can be calculated, allowing the AMP4N console to orchestrate post-attack remediation via AMP4E—all keeping your business humming along smoothly.

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Identity

Identity Services Engine
Identity Services Engine (ISE) is a foundational Cisco security technology. At it’s core, ISE changes the dynamic of networking from trusting based on IP or VLAN to trusting based on who a user is and what type of device they have, offering next-generation secure network access. Consider the following everyday issues:

ISE is the answer to these questions and more, and is foundational to Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA), Cisco’s new network management infrastructure. We generally find ISE to be a core component for virtually all Cisco users.

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Stealthwatch
Cisco Stealthwatch is a “network as a sensor” tool that uses netflow data to pick up potential malware patterns and allows the entire network to act as a large Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Stealthwatch users are equipped to outsmart emerging threats with industry-leading machine learning and behavioral modeling, all with a solution that grows with their business.

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A more recent development in Stealthwatch is Encrypted Threat Analytics (ETA). Prior to ETA, the intelligence provided from Stealthwatch was limited if traffic was encrypted. ETA is available only on the Catalyst 9000 series switches, and using the higher processor speeds in the Catalyst 9000, it assembles pattern data on encrypted traffic, and exports that to Stealthwatch. This creates a digital fingerprint that can be used to identify malicious traffic without decrypting it.

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Aruba ClearPass

Aruba Clearpass provides robust and highly configurable Identity and Access Management for the modern network. Clearpass is a key aspect of a zero-trust network where all users and devices on the network are authenticated, identified, and assigned policy based on their context in the network. Clearpass supports Wired and Wireless 801.X, Endpoint profiling and device type-based access, Posture Checks, guest and BYOD portals, and much more. Most importantly, Aruba Clearpass is a truly multi-vendor solution and can be integrated with any vendor’s network equipment.

Cloud

Crossconnect has a mature DevOps practice providing expert-level design and services for Azure networking, scalability with containerization and Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform.

Architect Azure correctly from the ground up

Many Azure networks grow organically or were designed without the network in mind. Network concepts shouldn’t be disregarded when moving from on-premises networks to cloud, those same concepts carry through, they just move to software. It’s easy to disregard the network design step and have architectural and scalability problems down the line.

Having an expert-level design of your Azure network is just as vital as it was on-premises. Crossconnect’s experience makes us the perfect partner to assist in designing your cloud datacenter to be secure, scalable, redundant, compliant, and to interoperate with your on-premises datacenter.

Crossconnect can architect and design:

• Hub/Spoke environment topologies, incl. designing limited communication & shared spokes.
• Virtual Networks, VNet peerings, and User Defined Route creation and maintenance
• Azure Firewall deployment, rule creation, maintenance, and rule audit and certification
• Design & deployments of both native Azure appliances such as Azure Firewall and Application Gateways or third-party firewalls such as Palo Alto VM firewalls and Cisco vFTD firewalls.
• Azure Application Gateway and Load Balancer deployments, rule creation and maintenance
• Global Load Balancing and BC/DR design with Azure FrontDoor and Traffic Manager
• Deploying Azure Site Recovery to include pre-deployment of load balancing, firewalling, and routing for the cold site, as well as running DR tests.
• Design connectivity between Azure environment and on-premises environment via VPNs (redundant, BGP, static) or Azure Express Route.

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

It’s also best practice to build Azure networks programmatically. This is known as Infrastructure-as-Code, and is done by scripting the network build instead of manually configuring it via the Azure web interface.

Crossconnect has a mature DevOps practice focused on dynamically building and scaling your cloud environments, in a secure fashion, using IaC. Development is performed in the programming language of the customer’s choice – some typical ones are Terraform’s HCL, Python, Javascript, or C#.