Cisco Partners to Fuel Global Development and Delivery of Managed Services

New Program Combines Partner Incentives With Proven Cisco Powered Framework, Creating the IT Industry's First Global Managed Services Channel Program

In a continuing effort to extend and accelerate the global development and delivery of innovative managed services based on advanced networking technologies as well as IP Next-Generation Networks, Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced the new Cisco Managed Services Channel Program.

The Cisco Managed Services Channel Program is the industry's first global managed services channel program designed to incentivize partners to deliver a wide spectrum of managed services. This innovative global program integrates the recently enhanced Cisco Powered Program framework, enabling partners to accelerate the global development and delivery of managed services.

"Growth in the managed services market will continue to outpace IT industry growth as customers strive to reduce complexity, decrease risk and improve time to market," said Edison Peres, vice president of Worldwide Channels at Cisco. "Based on a consistent, global framework, the Cisco Managed Services Channel Program will allow regional channel partners, service providers and systems integrators to more easily meet our customers' growing demand for managed services in established and emerging markets."

The Managed Service Partner Program serves to drive global consistency through predictable offerings and in-country product access. The program gives partners tools to offer consistent services to global customers based on the customers' business requirements. In addition, the Managed Services Channel Program provides financial rewards for partners that build and sell services that utilize the network to address a customer's business need and offers joint marketing and branding opportunities for managed service providers that deliver premium services. The program currently includes AT&T, CDW Berbee, Bell Canada, BT, Calence, Dimension Data, Getronics, NetStar, Sprint, TELUS, Verizon Business and VSNL.

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