Advanced Routing and Switching Specialisation
Summary:
The Cisco Advanced Routing and Switching Specialisation recognizes
partners for their knowledge and expertise in selling, designing,
installing, and supporting comprehensive, integrated network
solutions. This specialisation enables you to address a wide range
of customer needs, from enterprise-scale organizations to small and
medium-sized business (SMB) customers. The focus of the
specialisation is on developing sales, technical, and services
capabilities that distinguish partners as being among the
industry's elite in providing integrated systems based on proven
routing, switching, security and communications solutions for
unparalleled services performance, investment protection and end
user productivity.
For customers that need secure, reliable
delivery of business applications to small office and branch office
locations, Cisco provides the industry's first portfolio of
Integrated Services Routers engineered for secure, delivery of
concurrent data, wireless, voice and video services. For customers
of all sizes who need high-speed, secure and available LANs that
provide the foundation for voice, video and data, Cisco provides
the industry's broadest LAN switching portfolio which provides high
density, high performance, service-enabled and integrated switches
for the LAN access, distribution, core and data center. Partners
who achieve the Advanced Routing and Switching Specialisation have
demonstrated their ability to deliver these solutions.
To achieve an Advanced Routing and Switching
Specialisation, partners must fulfill each defined job role:
Account Manager,
Systems Engineer, and
Field Engineer. Partners must allocate a dedicated individual
to each role in
base specialisations. Individuals used for job roles in base
specialisations may also be used for optional specialisation
roles.
Note: Partners can only hold a single
specialization in a given technology. For example:
- A partner cannot hold a Routing and
Switching Specialisation and an Advanced Routing and
Switching Specialisation.
- If a partner achieves the Advanced Routing and
Switching Specialisation before their current Routing and
Switching Specialisation expires, the older specialisation
will be rendered invalid.