Network Services
USC is a Network Consulting firm that serves to help small to mid-size NJ businesses implements and maintain cost-effective IT technology solutions in their work environments. We provide IT Consulting, Web Services, and Application Development for your business. Our areas of expertise are Microsoft and Cisco platforms.
We can help you install, maintain, and upgrade your existing IT network infrastructure. Our diverse range of skills and history of IT experience are at your service to facilitate running your IT infrastructure and ultimately help you succeed in your business ventures.
We have been with USC for years. As a small non-profit, we have neither the time nor the expertise to manage our own network infrastructure and with USC we don’t have to.
Mary Silver
Director, Marketing & Membership
Hydraulic Institute
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V
- Microsoft Terminal Services for Windows
- Microsoft Exchange Server
- Microsoft SharePoint Server
- Microsoft Small Business Server
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Forefront Security for Business
- Citrix Access Essentials and Access Gateway
- Cisco Routers and Switches
- Cisco ASA Firewalls and VPN
- SonicWall Security Products
- Wireless office solutions
- ITA Secure Messaging
- ITA Mail Archiving
USC provides complete IT network infrastructure services for your business. From cabling to configuring servers, desktops, notebooks to securing Internet connections, USC can provide a comprehensive solution for your business. Our services include:
- Server and Desktop installation
- Cabling and wireless solution
- Upgrade existing server and applications to latest version
- Monitor and maintain server and critical network components
- On-site and remote support for your IT needs
IT infrastructure is the vital backbone of most small businesses today. On-going availability of IT resources to conduct your business growing is an important but often ignored part of the small businesses. USC pro-actively helps businesses plan and implement solutions to ensure business continuity in case of a failure of a server, network device, or an important business application. Most small businesses are unprepared to maintain this continuity should a server or critical network component fail. Performing regular data or server backups, while is very important, does not guarantee a quick or complete recovery from a failure. USC works with all our clients to make sure there is a quick recovery plan in the case of a critical failure. These measures can be as simple as recovering data from a backup to planning and implementing a low cost stand-by server option.
We also provide affordable off-site backup stand-by server options to our clients. The off-site server is a duplicate of your main office server. All critical applications are pre-installed on this server and latest data is copied via our rsync (remote sync) technology from your main server at regular intervals throughout the day to this remote backup server. This ensures that in the case of a problem with your main server, employees can run essential applications via Microsoft Remote Desktop client without any interruption of business operations. This affordable plan is easy to implement, and for that reason many of our customers have chosen this service as a safe-guard against server failures.
Network security, especially when businesses networks are connected online, is also a standard part of any IT infrastructure. USC provides installation and monitoring of Cisco routers and Firewalls. Firewalls are configured to prevent un-authorized traffic to your network from the Internet and prevent viruses, hacking, and spam. USC can implement secure Cisco VPN solutions allowing your employees or branch offices to connect to your main office network from home or travel. USC also provides monitoring and auditing services for your network.
- Cisco ASA Firewalls
- Cisco VPN Solutions
- Microsoft Forefront security products
- Sonic Firewall
Data is a crucial asset of small businesses. Whether such data is for accounting purposes, related to customer information, or a database that contains proprietary business information, User data is an integral part of your business. Unfortunately, small businesses, due to lack of resources, are generally ill prepared to handle loss of data resulting from any number of reasons. USC has worked with small businesses over the years to ensure that our customers are sufficiently prepared should data loss strike. We help businesses implement backup solutions both on-site and off-site to quickly recover and assure business continuity. We provide monitoring of backups from our remote location and create online remote data backups to our secure data center in real-time. Of course, most data is useless unless the application that processes it is also available. To that end, USC provides application virtualization solutions to small businesses for backup and quick recovery in case of a main server failure.
We at USC encourage that small businesses seriously consider virtual server technology. With proper configuration and setup combined with a reasonable and profitable investment on a new server and software, virtual server technology can provide small, local businesses capabilities that previously only large enterprises could afford. Converting your current physical servers to a virtual server has several advantages:
- Saves money over the long run by consolidating multiple servers into one
- Allows creation of additional virtual servers needed anytime for future needs
- Creates exact duplicate of your crucial servers any time of the day - ensures that there is an identical copy of the entire server
- Reduces down-time of crucial business application by utilizing snap-shots taken before an upgrade of the application of the server. Allows you to revert back to previous working state.
- In case of server failure, the copy of the virtual server can be brought up online on another machine for a quick and painless recovery.
USC has headed the forefront of actual implementation of virtual server technology, specifically Microsoft Hyper-v, for their customers. We have helped our clients reduce cost, ensure business continuity, prevent server issues, data loss, and application crashes using virtualization server technology.
E-mail comprises the most important and wide-spread mode of communication in the business world today. USC has experience and expertise in evaluating our customer needs so that we can recommend, implement, and manage e-mail solution that is suited to your individual needs. We provide both on-site and remote hosted e-mail solutions. USC is dedicated to developing and implementing measures to prevent spam and viruses as well as complete backup and e-mails archiving. We specialize in providing Microsoft Exchange based server solution.
- On-site Exchange 2003, 2007 installation and support
- Hosted remote Exchange server with Outlook Desktop Client access or Outlook
- Full Outlook Client email access and support
- Email Spam and Virus prevention
- Secure Email access with SSL or send outbound email with TLS security
USC, as your personal IT department, is committed to provide our clients with desktop system related support. This includes setting up desktops in their offices, application support, managing printer issues, performing backups, setting up and maintaining remote access, active virus removal, comprehensive spam control, securing and consistently delivering Internet connectivity, and providing other IT related services an employee needs to be productive.
Our desktop solutions include:
- Desktop / Notebook installation and network configuration
- Application installation such as MS Office, Outlook, third party applications
- Hardware and software troubleshooting
- Printer issues
- Cabling or wireless access
- Internet connectivity
- Desktop security and backups
- Virus, Spam, Trojan pop-ups removal and prevention
- Remote access from home or travel to desktop
- Fix performance issues
- Data backup
USC provides solutions for small business owners who need to monitor and control employee Internet access. We can help you in implementing business policies for Internet access to employees. You can selectively decide which employees can access on the Internet, at what times, which websites they are allowed to access, as well as allow or block Internet applications such as Internet Messaging. In addition, our solutions can regulate downloading files from and uploading files to the Internet. This allows businesses to comply with legal regulations and serves to help employees remain and become more productive in their work environment.
Our Employee Internet Access Control services include:
- Monitoring and reporting employee Internet activity
- Limiting employee access to certain websites; i.e. designating which sites are allowed or blocked
- Regulating and/or preventing access to applications such as Internet audio/video, or instant messaging
- Implementing business policies on Internet uploads and downloads
- Limiting hours or setting times for Internet access for personal employee use
- Implementing company policies on what documents employees can send out of their office
- Monitoring and reporting E-mail activity