smb

A Partner Experience with the new Cisco WAP371 802.11ac Wireless Access Point

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Hello all, Hello all, I trust everyone’s week is going well. Today we get to hear from Michiel Beenen, the founder of TechConnect, based in the Netherlands. Michiel recently heard about the new Cisco WAP371 and wanted to see if this new 802.11ac wireless access point hit the mark. He has already deployed the WAP321 […]

You’d be amazed at what you can get for $10K

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As an SMB, you thought there are solutions/options completely out of your range – 10 Gigabit, Virtualization, Stacking, 16TB Storage, POE+, Layer 3, etc. If I told you you can get all of the following (an entire future-proofed feature-rich SMB network with Storage) for under $10K, what would you say? Network Infrastructure: 20x 10-Gigabit Ethernet […]

“Wow, I had no idea Cisco had these products”

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As the product owner, one comment I get most of all is “Wow, I had no idea Cisco had these products“. This is the case even though we ship well over 20 million switch ports delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue per year in this portfolio – to customers in all geographies, markets, […]

October 30, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

Summary: TelePresence for SMBs: It isn’t just for the big guys anymore

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If you’re in an SMB company you might think of telepresence as a tool built for enterprise, something that would be nice to have for your small business but just out of reach. You’d be wrong. Video conferencing solutions like Telepresence and even web-based technologies like WebEx are more affordable than ever, making them a […]

Cloud and Advanced Services Are Service Providers’ Keys To Tapping the Fragmented $200 Billion Small and Medium Busine …

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By Neeraj Kumar and Kevin Suh, Cisco Consulting Services The small and medium sized-business (SMB) commercial-services market is important for all types of service providers (SPs). SMBs account for more than half of total U.S. commercial-services spending, according to AMR Research/Gartner. And, the portion of the U.S. SMB commercial-services market that service providers could capture […]

July 10, 2013

PARTNER

Continuing Our Midmarket Momentum With Partners

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Gordon Mackintosh shares exciting changes ahead for Cisco and its partners selling into the SMB space.

How Are You Weathering Industry Storms? Five Ways To Help SPs Turn Disruption into Transformation

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Service providers (SPs) have been wracked by wave after wave of disruption, creating new winners and losers on every front. Traditional carriers continue to look for ways to make up for lost voice revenues; over-the-top (OTT) players have redefined the ways video is delivered and consumed; exponential growth in mobile data traffic devours network capacity […]

May 9, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cbeyond: Taking Our SMB Cloud Offering to the Next Level

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By Chris Ortbals, Senior Vice President, Product Management , Cbeyond Inc.   At the company’s inception in 1999, Cbeyond saw the potential...