Cisco Systems also sponsors a line of IT Professional certifications for Cisco products. There are five levels of certification: Entry, Associate, Professional, Expert, and recently Architect, as well as eight different paths, Routing & Switching, Design, Network Security, Service Provider, the newly introduced Service Provider Operations, Storage Networking, Voice, and Wireless.
Products and Services
Cisco’s current portfolio of products and services are focussed around three market segments – Enterprise and Service Provider, Small Business and the Home. The solutions for each market are segmented into Architectures, which form the basis for how Cisco approaches each market.
- Corporate market: Enterprise networking and Service Providers
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- Borderless networks: for their range of routers, switches, wireless systems, security systems, WAN acceleration, energy and building management systems and media aware networks.
- Collaboration: IP video and phones, Telepresence, Unified Communications, Call Center systems, Enterprise social networks and Mobile applications
- Datacenter and Virtualization: Unified Computing, Unified Fabric, Data Centre Switching, Storage Networking and Cloud services.
- IP NGN (Next Generation Networks): High-end routing and switching for fixed and mobile service provider networks, broadcast video contribution/distribution, entitlement and content delivery systems.
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- Routers and switches
- Security and surveilance: IP cameras, data and network security solutions etc.
- Voice and conferencing solutions: VOIP phones and gateway-systems, WebEx, video conferencing
- Wireless: WiFi Access points
- Network storage systems
Architectures
In an effort to allow their sales team to have more business-focussed conversations with customers, as opposed to focussing on discussions around products, Cisco announced a new focus around six ‘Architectures’ in 2009. These are:
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- Borderless Networks
- Collaboration
- Data Center and Virtualization
- IP NGN (Next Generation Networks)
- Small Business
- Consumer
Under these architectures, Cisco intends to gradually knit together its various products, and introduce new products and features in order to provide a complete set of capabilities in each area.
Hardware
- Datacenter products: Nexus Switches (1000v, 2000, 4000, 5000, 7000), MDS, Unified Computing System (UCS)
- Flip pocket camera.
- Cisco SPA500 Series IP Phones
- Linksys SPA900 Series IP Phones
- Cisco Unified IP Phones (7945, 7965, 7942, 8900 series, 9900 series, 6900 series)
- Cisco LocalDirector: load-balancing appliance
- Routers, including: 837, 1000 Series, 2500 Series, 7600, 12000, 3600 Series, ASR Series and CRS-1 and CRS-3
- Cisco Security Manager
- Security appliances: ASA 5500, PIX 500 series
- Unified Computing: Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) virtual server platform: with VMWare virtualization system run servers on Cisco hardware
- Catalyst switches: Cisco Catalyst 2900 Series, Cisco Catalyst 3000 Series, Catalyst 4500, Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
- Collaboration systems such as Cisco TelePresence, Cisco Manufacturing Mobile Video Collaboration with Librestream, Cisco acquired Tandberg, the world leader in Telepresence systems
- VOIP: Wireless IP Phone 7920
- CLEO: Low Earth Orbit router
- Cisco Wireless LAN
- Cisco Cius: a new Android-based collaboration tablet
- Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
- Set Top Boxes (High Definition PVRs)- Cable/IP
Software
- Internetwork Operating System
- NX-OS
- Cisco Active Network Abstraction
- Cisco Fabric Manager
- Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client
- Cisco Systems VPN Client
- CiscoView
- CiscoWorks Network Management software
- Clean Access Agent, Cisco NAC Appliance
- Cisco Eos
- Packet Tracer, didactic network simulator
- Cisco Network Magic Pro
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager
- Cisco IP Communicator
- Cisco Quad
- Cisco Security Manager
- WebEx Collaboration Tools
VoIP services
Cisco became a major provider of Voice over IP to enterprises, and is now moving into the home user market through its acquisitions of Scientific Atlanta and Linksys. Scientific Atlanta provides VoIP equipment to cable service providers such as Time Warner, Cablevision, Rogers Communications, UPC, and others; Linksys has partnered with companies such as Skype and Yahoo to integrate consumer VoIP services with wireless and cordless phones.
Hosted Collaboration Solution
Cisco partners can now offer cloud-based services based on Cisco’s virtualized Unified Computing System (UCS). A part of the Cisco Unified Services Delivery Solution, it will include hosted versions of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (UCM), Cisco Unified Contact Center, Cisco Unified Mobility, Cisco Unified Presence, Cisco Unity Connection (unified messaging), and Cisco Webex Meeting Center.
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