Cisco Channel Partner Program
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Channel Partner Program Overview
The Channel Partner Program focuses on a partner's ability to deliver intelligent networks and technology architectures built on integrated products, services, and software platforms. The program offers training in the latest Cisco solutions and architectures in addition to valuable branding resources.
How do certifications and specializations relate to one another?
Channel Partner Program certifications are similar to academic degrees. Some specializations are prerequisites for becoming certified while others provide specialized knowledge of certain technologies. Certification levels reflect a partner's technology skills breadth. The higher your level of certification, the more credentials and resources you need to meet the requirements.
Benefits to Becoming Certified and Specialized:
- Market recognition and branding: Cisco partner certification recognizes your technology expertise, specializations, and individual career certifications.
- Validation and credibility: As one of the world's strongest brands, the Cisco name lends added credibility to companies that achieve Cisco Certified Partner status.
- Quality standards: An objective third party conducts annual audits that help protect the integrity and value of Silver and Gold Certified Partners and Master Specialized Partners, ensuring the inclusion of only the most qualified partners in our program.
Certifications
Certification reflects a breadth of skills across certain technologies and is based on your organization's ability to support customers within a single country or country grouping. Country-level certifications range from entry to highest level: Select, Premier, Silver, Gold, Multinational, and Global Certification.
Select Certification
Identifies partners that focus on selling into the small business market; recognizes and rewards partners who have achieved the Cisco Small and Midsized Business Specialization or Express Security Specialization.
Premier Certification
Identifies and rewards Express Foundation Specialized Partners, Express Collaboration Specialized Partners or partners with any one of the Cisco Architecture Specializations. This certification reflects the partner's increasing technical competency in the integration of basic routing and switching, wireless LANs, collaboration and security technologies.
Gold Certification
Offers the broadest range of expertise across four high growth market opportunities known as architecture plays-Borderless Networks, Collaboration, Data Center Virtualization, and IP Next-Generation Network. Gold Certified Partners have also integrated the deepest level of Cisco Lifecycle Services expertise into their offerings and demonstrate a measurably high level of customer satisfaction.
Multinational Certification
Recognizes partners with expertise in selling, deploying, and supporting Cisco integrated solutions across multiple countries within a given Cisco geographical region. Partners that achieve the required number of Silver and Gold Certifications within the region will be recognized as Multinational Certified Partners for that region. To qualify, partners must have a multinational resale agreement.
Global Certification
Recognizes partners with the expertise and resources to plan, design, implement, and operate Cisco networking solutions across the globe. Global Certified Partners must have a global resale agreement and satisfy certification requirements across three continental regions.
Express Specializations
The Express Specialization consists of six tracks. You can achieve Express Specialization by completing any one of these tracks below.
Express Specialization uses a new flexible application process. Only one track is required, but multiple tracksmay be achieved at the same time. Only one Express Specialization will be awarded regardless of how many tracks are achieved. Additional tracks may be achieved at any time, and they will not affect the anniversary date of your Express Specialization.
Collaboration Express Track | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager | Selling Business Outcomes (#810-401 ou #810-403) OU Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (810-440) Cisco Midsize Collaboration Solutions for Account Managers (#700-105 MCAM) |
Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (DTBAA) v1.0 [E-learning] | |
System Engineer | Implementing Cisco Collaboration Devices (#210-060CICD) | ! |
Data Center Express Track | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager | Selling Business Outcomes (#810-401 ou #810-403) OU Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (810-440) | Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (DTBAA) v1.0 [E-learning] | |
System Engineer | Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Infrastructure (DCIDUC, #500-901) OU (DCID, #300-175) | Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Infrastructure (DCIUC) ou (DCID) |
Networking Express Track | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager | Selling Business Outcomes (#810-401 ou #810-403) OU Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (810-440) | Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (DTBAA) v1.0 [E-learning] | |
Engineer | Cisco Networking: On-Premise and Cloud Solutions (#500-551) |
Partie 1 : Cisco Networking: On-Premise and Cloud Solutions [E-learning] |
Security Express Track | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager | Selling Business Outcomes (#810-401 or #810-403) OU Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (810-440) ET Express Security for Account Managers (ESAM) #700-551 |
Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (DTBAA) v1.0 [E-learning] | |
Systems Engineer | Security Architecture for Systems Engineer (SASE)#500-651 | Express Security Systems Engineer Training [E-learning] | CCNA – Security* (optionnel, requis à partir du 1er Juin 2018) |
Service Provider Express Track | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Les exigences peuvent être satisfaites par tout individu de l'organisation partenaire |
CCNP-SP ou plus OU |
! OU |
Express Video Track | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager | Selling Business Outcomes (#810-401 or #810-403) OU Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (810-440) ET Cisco Video Sales Essentials (#700-020 VSE) |
Selling Business Outcomes Training OU | |
Engineer | Cisco Video Infrastructure Design exam (#500-701VID) | Cisco Video Infrastructure Design (VID) [E-learning] |
Advanced Architecture Specializations
Advanced and Architecture-level specializations help partners meet a wide range of customer needs, from small businesses to larger enterprise organizations.
Gold Certification requires three Advanced Architectures. Two are mandatory: Enterprise Networks Architecture and Security Architecture. The third must be the Collaboration Architecture, Data Center Architecture, or Advanced IP NGN Architecture.
Advanced Enterprise Networks Architecture | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager |
#810-401 ou #810-403 |
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OU | |
Architecture Systems Engineer | #500-452 ENCWE | Enterprise Networks Core and WAN Essentials (ENCWE) |
CCDP ou CCDE ou CCIE Routing and Switching ou CCIE Wireless |
Field Engineer 1 | !CCNP R&S ou CCIE Routing and Switching | - |
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Field Engineer 2 | !CCNA Wireless ou !CCNP Wireless ou CCIE Wireless | - |
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Exigences de formation non spécifiques aux rôles | #300-360 WIDESIGN #500-451 ENUAE |
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Advanced Security Architecture | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager |
#810-401 ou #810-403 | Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (DTBAA) v1.0 [E-Learning] Selling Advanced Security Architecture [E-Learning] | |
Architecture Systems Engineer | #500-615 ASASE | Security Systems Engineer Training [E-Learning] | !CCNA Security ou !CCNP Security ou CCIE Security |
Field Engineer | !CCNP Security ou CCIE Security | - |
Advanced Collaboration Architecture | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager |
#810-440 |
Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (DTBAA) v1.0 [E-learning] | |
Architecture Systems Engineer | CCDA OU CCDP OU CCDE |
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Field Engineer | CCNP Voice OU |
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Exigences de formation non spécifiques aux rôles |
#1 Contact center |
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Advanced Data Center Architecture | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager |
#810-401 ou #810-403 | Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (DTBAA) [E-learning] | |
Architecture Systems Engineer (ASE) | #300-160 DCID | Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCID) 7.0 (DCID) | |
Field Engineer 1 Unified Computing | #300-175 DCUCI DCITUC #500-920 ou #300-180 DCIT | ||
Field Engineer 2 Unified Fabric | #300-165 DCII #300-180 DCIT | Implementing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCII) Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCIT) |
!CCNP Data Center |
Advanced Service Provider Architecture | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Exigences de formation non spécifiques aux rôles |
#810-401 ou #810-403 |
Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (DTBAA) v1.0 [E-learning]
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Advanced Technology Specializations
Advanced and Architecture-level specializations help partners meet a wide range of customer needs, from small businesses to larger enterprise organizations.
Advanced Technology Specializations can be applied towards Silver Certification. Gold Certification requires three Advanced Architecture Specializations: Borderless Network Architecture (mandatory), Collaboration Architecture, Data Center Architecture and/or Advanced IP NGN Architecture Specializations. Architecture Specializations can also be applied toward Premier Certification or Silver Certification.
Advanced Core & WAN Technology | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager |
#810-401 ou #810-403 |
!
OU | |
Systems Engineer | #500-452 ENCWE | Enterprise Networks Core and WAN Essentials (ENCWE) | |
Field Engineer | !CCNP R&S ou CCIE Routing and Switching | - |
- |
Advanced Unified Access Technology | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager |
#810-401 ou #810-403 |
!
OU | |
Systems Engineer |
CCDA ou CCDP ou CCDE ou CCIE Wireless | - | - |
Field Engineer | !CCNA Wireless ou !CCNP Wireless ou CCIE Wireless | - |
- |
Exigences de formation non spécifiques aux rôles |
Cisco Unified Wireless Site Survey Representative
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Advanced Unified Fabric Technology | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager |
#810-401 or #810-403 |
! | |
Systems Engineer | #300-160 DCID #300-165 DCII | Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCID) 7.0 (DCID) Implementing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCII) | |
Field Engineer | #300-165 DCII #300-180 DCIT | Implementing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCII) Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCIT) |
!CCNA R&S !CCNP R&S ou unCCIE. |
Advanced Video Spécialisation | |||
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Rôles |
Tests |
Formations recommandées |
Prérequis |
Account Manager |
#810-401 ou #810-403 |
! | |
Systems Engineer |
#500-701 VID (surveillé) | Cisco Video Infrastructure Designe (VID) [eLearning] | |
Field Engineer | #500-710 VII (surveillé) |
Advanced Unified Computing Technology | |||
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Remplacé par la Spécialisation express : Data Center Express Track |
Advanced Internet of Things - Connected Safety and Security | |||
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Obsolète |
Advanced Internet of Things - Industry Expert | |||
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Advanced Internet of Things - Manufacturing | |||
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Obsolète |
Advanced Service Provider Mobility Technology | |||
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Advanced Service Provider Optical Technology | |||
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Advanced Service Provider Routing Technology | |||
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Obsolète |
Master Specializations
Découvrez les différentes spécialisations Master selon leur domaine.
Spécialisation Master Collaboration
Reach the highest level for Cisco collaboration solutions. Deliver voice and unified communications solutions to help your customers communicate quickly and effectively. Improve customer service and save time and money.
Master Cloud Builder
This approach integrates the three pillars of cloud: cloud applications and services, data centers, and networks. Building on your Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization, the exclusive Master Cloud Builder.
Master Security
Network threats are becoming more complex. How can your company stay current with the latest security solutions? We'd like to help. Learn how to add security to all aspects of your customer's network. Adapt to new threats, and help your customers get the security coverage they need.
Master Service Provider Technology
Win high-value deals more often and become a trusted advisor to service providers at a regional level. Acquire unique virtualization capabilities, such as expertise in SDN, segment routing, and NFV. Receive presales and postsales training for your account managers and system engineers and be recognized for your know-how in delivering service provider routing, optical, and backhaul solutions.