Cisco Expands Small Business Product Portfolio

Cisco has announced it has expanded its small business product portfolio with new wireless access points, routers, switches, unified communications and partner-managed service offerings. These new solutions help to drive customer productivity and growth by allowing small businesses to get the most out of smartphones, tablets, and cloud applications and services. Cisco’s product innovations are ensuring that businesses of all sizes can keep pace with the needs of their customers by staying connected with the right secure, reliable network. The new suite of small business networking and communication offerings builds on Cisco’s dedication to provide partners who sell Cisco solutions to small businesses with a complete portfolio of purpose-built products and solutions to create the right networks for their customers.

In addition to this, Cisco will be running its bi-annual Advantage Now! Road Show in India in May with the focus on up-skilling its partner base to help small and medium-sized customers (SME) maximise mobility and cloud technologies. Spread over a month, the event will cover 8 cities and reach out to approximately 500 partners across India and SAARC. The centerpiece of the road show is a new suite of products that include new Wireless Access Points, Routers, Switches, and Unified Communications offerings. These new solutions help to drive customer productivity and growth by allowing SMEs to get the most out of smartphones, tablets, and cloud applications and services.

The Cisco Advantage Now! Road Show has been running in the Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China region for four years now and is available to both Cisco-certified as well as non Cisco-certified partners in both tier-1 and tier-2 cities throughout the region. Each road show typically comprises presentations and training sessions about the latest initiatives, products, programs, insights and promotions from Cisco, to help them better serve their SMB customers.

“SMEs represent a very important part of our business and partners are Cisco’s primary route to market. The Advantage Now road show that we conduct twice a year is an important vehicle for us to keep our partners up to date with our technologies. We also help our partners on the business side and have helped many to increase profitability,” said Arun Dharmalingam, Vice President, Partner Led Velocity and Distribution Sales at Cisco India and SAARC.

“Cisco’s innovations are helping to ensure that businesses of all sizes can keep pace with the speed of their customers by helping them build the right network, securely and reliably. Mobility and cloud are two important care-abouts for our SME customers with the number of mobile-connected devices expected to exceed the world’s population in 2012, and the adoption of cloud services by SMEs expected to hit 98 percent by 2015,” added Arun.

The new portfolio of SMB products are all purpose-built for SMEs and designed to satisfy the new demands of an increasingly on-the-go work environment enabled by mobile devices and cloud services. By providing fast and highly secure connectivity for an ever-increasing number of mobile devices throughout the expanding workplace, Cisco products and solutions form the right network to accelerate access to information and people. In doing so, SMEs can respond to customers and make decisions with increased speed and confidence.