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With each level of certification, partners benefit from an increased level of support and economic incentives from Cisco, including access to best-in-class products and services, technical support, productivity tools, online training, marketing resources, and sales promotions.

There are four levels of specialization (Entry, Express, Advanced and Master) each representing greater capabilities in sales, technical, and lifecycle services. In addition to these four levels, Global and Multinational specializations are also available to support those partners with expanding global presence.

The Cisco Multinational Master Specialization offers the greatest differentiation and branding opportunities across a particular theater. Partners can integrate this unique branding opportunity into their customer sales efforts, marketing plans, and company value proposition, creating substantial differentiation in the global market.

With hundreds of customers, robust solutions and a deep partner ecosystem, AeroScout is widely recognized as the worldwide leader in Healthcare RTLS. In fact, according to the recent KLAS report published in 2009, AeroScout has the largest market share and the most organizations looking to them for RTLS needs. AeroScout is exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association and also is a preferred provider for some of the most prestigious healthcare organizations, such as Premier and University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC). Healthcare customers around the globe are driving benefits which are essential to their operations – ensuring regulatory compliance, improving patient safety, reducing capital and operational expenditures, increasing staff efficiency and enhancing patient care.

WiFi Analyzer Express: The Express version of AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer provides the core building blocks of WiFi troubleshooting and auditing with the ability to see devices, automatically identify common problems and physically locate specific devices.

Organizations struggling with the complexities of availability, server consolidation, virtualization and energy management are increasingly looking for more intelligent physical infrastructure management systems. APC by Schneider Electric brings customers proactive data center management through integrated software applications sharing a centralized database, enabling design, real-time monitoring, inventory management and planning through predictive simulation. InfraStruxure Management Softwares end-to-end management approach allows data centers to run more smoothly on a daily basis, and its built-in business tools for short- and long-term planning and budgeting help keep capital and operational costs and energy use inline.

With BlueArc, coping with data growth is simple and very inexpensive, as you simply add disks. Instead of splitting the workspace over multiple traditional servers for high bandwidth, BlueArc systems have the performance to deliver one large workspace for all work in progress, making workstation and data management effortless, improving the ease of storage management.

Blue Coat ProxySG appliances are available in form factors and performance levels appropriate for IT infrastructure environments ranging from small to medium enterprise branches to regional and core data centers. Each appliance can be licensed as a Full Proxy Edition, delivering the foundational elements of the Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway solution combined with the full WAN Optimization feature set, or as an Acceleration Edition with an available upgrade path to Full Proxy Edition.

The Bradford Networks Sentry Family consists of Foundation appliances and software-based Solutions and Extensions which can be deployed in any combination to meet the needs of a particular environment. Solutions are feature sets that are licensed on a per-user of per-device basis to address specific needs. One of multiple types of solutions licenses can be added onto the Network Sentry Foundation. Available solutions include: (1) Access Manager Provides visibility and control of all users and their endpoint devices, (2) Guest Manager Ensures secure network access for guest users and simplifies the administration of guest accounts, (3) Shared Access Tracker Allows secure, role-based access for users of shared workstations, and (4) Device Tracker Locks down the network to allow only known networked devices.

Cisco Catalyst 4900 Series Ethernet Switches (1) Support up to10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, (2) Provides up to 320 Gbps forwarding capacity, (3) Support critical routing protocols and IPv6 in hardware, and (4) Feature hot-swappable, redundant power supply and fans.

Check Point Power-1 appliances include the most proven security technologies available, examining hundreds of applications, protocols, and services out of the box. As new applications and network-layer threats appear, Power-1 appliances can be updated with the latest protections and expanded with additional Software Blades to add more security capabilities. Power-1 is managed from the Check Point management servers, enabling you to centrally manage security policy for all sites through a single management console.