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The Cisco Gold Certified Partner designation offers the highest level of branding, economic incentives, and differentiation as a reward for loyalty to Cisco.

Cisco Master Security Qualifications: To achieve the Master Security Specialization, partners must first attain the Advanced Security Specialization, and then meet stringent requirements to demonstrate their master-level capabilities in the following areas: (1) Customer success: Five annual customer references for successful delivery of integrated, multiple security solutions such as Intrusion Prevention, Network Admission Control, Secure Communications, Security Management, and Secure Applications, (2) Technology expertise: Additional CCIE personnel requirements with the deep technology skills customers require. Industry recognized Project Management credentials, and (3) Services capability and methodology: Comprehensive Services Assessment across the Cisco Lifecycle Services phases (Prepare, Plan, Design, Implement, Operate and Optimize) including: ISO prescribed skills for the Operate Phase, remote monitoring capability, vulnerability assessments, and post implementation support. To protect the integrity and value of the Master Specialization, Cisco requires an annual onsite audit. Partners will be asked to provide validation of third-party certifications, proof of specific business processes, and proof of proficiency in Cisco Security technologies.

In addition to selling the higher-margin services associated with Cisco Unified Communications and security solutions, Multinational Master Specialized Partners receive the highest Value Incentive Program rebate. The Value Incentive Program uniquely rewards Multinational Master Specialized Partners for their capabilities in providing value-added services, for their commitment to customer success, and for their loyalty to Cisco.

AeroScouts complete solutions bring together RTLS, Active RFID, auto-ID and wireless sensing technologies: Unified Asset Visibility (UAV) solutions from AeroScout go beyond standalone Active RFID, RTLS and sensor solutions by unifying all enterprise visibility data on a single Wi-Fi-based platform to automate business processes and deliver context-aware applications. Unlike competing technologies, the AeroScout system was designed to work in practically any environment (both indoors and outdoors), and with the flexibility to meet numerous application needs. AeroScout provides both hardware and software that use the Wi-Fi standard as the basis for encompassing a host of RTLS and sensor technologies. With AeroScout’s Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tags, customers can monitor any mobile asset over their wireless LAN; and with AeroScout MobileView, they can visualize a wide range of information about their assets, and apply a consistent set of business rules to this visibility data.

Wi-Fi technology is quickly becoming the No. 1 choice of educational institutions for delivering new online-classroom initiatives and to ensure reliable mobility as students and staff roam around the campus. Campus networks need to support a variety of applications, ranging from basic email & Internet access to bandwidth heavy applications like voice and video. With AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer, IT staff gets an instant visibility into all wireless channels, devices, conversations, speeds, interference issues and the RF spectrum, making it the ideal product for auditing and troubleshooting any problems in wireless campus networks. Using AirMagnet's bridge alignment tool, staff members can accurately align their wireless bridge APs across the campus buildings. Also the educational vertical is currently leading all other verticals for 802.11n AP deployments, and with WiFi Analyzer's 802.11n Performance Toolkit, a first-of-a-kind feature set, the IT staff can visualize how best to deploy 11n technology and maximize the real-world performance in their campus network.

APC award-winning Smart-UPS is the most popular UPS in the world for servers, storage and networks. Trusted to protect critical data and equipment from power problems by supplying clean and reliable network-grade power. In addition to legendary reliability and manageability, Smart-UPS have extremely high efficiency at low, medium and high load levels making them ideal for today’s multi-core or virtualized servers that have varying load consumption. Available in a variety of form factors (tower, rack mount, rack/tower convertible) there is a model for every application and budget. Rack mounted Smart-UPS are ideal for powering Blade or density optimized servers in a distributed power protection environment as the primary or redundant protection. Smart-UPS models have long been considered the benchmark for all network and server UPSs. Smart-UPS feature a 16-segment LED display, extended range automatic voltage regulation (AVR), and pure sine wave output on battery. Additional manageability options are available through the Smart-Slot interface, which is an internal slot for the installation of optional accessory cards. The extended run Smart-UPS XL has the capability to add external battery packs to scale runtime from minutes to hours typically needed for converged voice and data networks. The entry level Smart-UPS SC is an economical choice for small and medium businesses looking to protect small switches, networking devices and point-of-sale (POS) equipment.

Why wait until it's too late to physically upgrade the power in the data center, an event which can potentially take months if unplanned? As power densities continue to increase with each competitive technology release, it is now harder than ever to consume floor space before cooling or power runs out. If your back is up against the wall with any of these environmental limits of power, space and cooling, look no further than BlueArc.

ProxyAV supports leading malware engines from Panda, Sophos, McAfee and Kaspersky with updates as frequently as every 5 minutes, providing more effective protection than traditional desktop anti-virus solutions. Unlike competitive offerings, Blue coat provides deferred scanning which removes long load objects like Web radio and other media from processing threads to further optimize Web gateway performance. ProxyAV supports four modes of content analysis, including traditional object analysis, trickle first or last stream analysis, and deferred scan. ProxyAV can be configured to analyze both inbound and outbound traffic and includes options such as set time-out duration, drop file if errors in detection occur, and define trusted sites. Policy can be set for allow/deny lists, with extensions along with file size and content type restrictions. Alerts and log files can also be customized.

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. Extensions are additional feature sets that are enabled with a one-time activation key. One of multiple types of extensions can be added to further enhance Solutions. Available extensions include: (1) Endpoint Compliance Validates the security posture of endpoint devices, detects vulnerability and enables actions to quarantine and self-remediate, (2) Device Profiler Provides dynamic profiling and classification of devices and allows delegation of device provisioning to non-IT staff, and (3) the Integration Suite that allows integration with third-party security systems and correlates device information to enhance security and control.

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Ethernet Switches (1) Support hardware acceleration for Layer-2 through -4 intelligent network services, (2) Deliver high-availability with In-Service Software Upgrade and redundant supervisors, and (3) Integrate simultaneous IPv4 and IPv6 support.

Software Blades are independent and flexible security modules that enable you to select the functions you want to build a custom Check Point Security Gateway. Software Blades can be purchased independently or as pre-defined bundles.