ePlus inc. announced that it has successfully passed five new Cisco Powered Service audits, validating its ability to provide targeted expertise around multiple managed service offerings. With this achievement, ePlus adds the following Cisco Powered Service designations:
- Cisco SD-WAN: Cisco SD-WAN gives providers the ability to deliver secure, automated WAN performance services to customers as a cloud-based managed service.
- Meraki SD-WAN: Cisco Powered Meraki SD-WAN Services are managed services that deliver automated, hybrid WAN services to business customers via a cloud-based, multitenant solution.
- Meraki Access: Meraki Access enables providers to offer managed wireless LAN (WLAN) and managed LAN services to interconnect end users and devices with layer 2 switching, layer 3 routing with security and quality of services with a cloud-based controller and management.
- Webex Contact Center: Cisco Webex Contact Center (Webex CC) supplies providers with a native contact center as a service solution, enabling security, visibility, flexibility, and scalability.
- Cloud Calling: Cisco Powered Cloud Calling Services are delivered from a robust cloud infrastructure and enable providers to significantly reduce time-to-market for delivering Unified Communication (UC) services.
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The audits validate ePlus‘ demonstrated capabilities to deliver Cisco Powered services, including service provisioning, change management, proactive monitoring, remote troubleshooting, operation of a Network Operations Center (NOC), and integration of service-level agreements with the end customer. ePlus adds these five Cisco Powered Service designations to its existing designations in Cloud Managed Security, Managed Business Communications, and Managed Security.
“We are delighted to pass these simultaneous Cisco audits, joining a very selective group of only six Cisco partners (out of 41K+ partners worldwide) who hold this number of Cisco Powered service designations,” said Wayne St. Jacques, vice president of managed services at ePlus. “Achieving these Cisco Powered service designations validates that ePlus has the expertise to pass rigorous audit standards, illustrating Cisco’s trust in our technical talent and reputable skillset to deliver high-quality managed services and streamline our customers’ digital buying experience. We look forward to continuing to empower our customers to reduce complexity, embrace a strategic IT role to drive business forward, and better anticipate future needs as they harness the acceleration of XaaS solutions.”
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