Cisco Channel Partner Program
Fast Lane takes you to your Cisco Partnership!
Broaden your skills across multiple technologies and deepen your skills within a specific technology area. Certifications and specializations grant credentials to resellers based on your Cisco expertise to help you better market your Cisco capabilities.
- Expand Your Value, Boost Your Revenue
- Enhance Expertise and Profits
- Earn Credentials to Increase Market Share
Based on your individual business goals and strategy, we support you choosing the most appropriate options of Cisco´s Channel Partner Program. In close contact with your management we analyze your qualification gaps and needs to build a perfectly tailored training plan to ensure you have the requested certifications and qualifications for your desired Cisco partnership.
- Overview
- Certifications
- Express
Specializations - Advanced Technology
Specializations - Advanced Architecture
Specializations
Channel Partner Program Overview
Cisco rewards partners for adding value to Cisco products and delivering a positive customer experience. Certifications and specializations measure criteria such as customer satisfaction and presales and postsales support capabilities—critical factors in becoming a trusted partner.
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.
NEW: Advanced Enterprise Networks Architecture Specialization Training
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | 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 | |
| System Engineer | Implementing Cisco Collaboration Devices (#210-060CICD) | Implementing Cisco Collaboration Devices (CICD) v1.0 | |
| Data Center Express | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (810-440) | Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (DTBAA) v1.0 | |
| System Engineer | Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Infrastructure (DCIDUC, #500-901) or (DCID, #300-175) | Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Infrastructure (DCIUC) or (DCID) | |
| Networking Express Track | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (810-440) | Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (DTBAA) v1.0 | |
| Engineer | Cisco Networking: On-Premise and Cloud Solutions (#500-551) |
Cisco Networking: On-Premise and Cloud Solutions OR
Express Networking Meraki Overview | |
| Security Express Track | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (810-440) Express Security for Account Managers (ESAM) #700-551 |
Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (DTBAA) v1.0 | |
| Systems Engineer | Security Architecture for Systems Engineer (SASE)#500-651 | Express Security Systems EngineerTraining | CCNA – Security* (optional, required starting June 1, 2018) |
| Service Provider Express Track | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Requirements can be met by any individual in the Partner organization |
CCNP-SP or higher OR |
Cisco Service Provider OR | |
| Express Video Track | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (810-440) AND Cisco Video Sales Essentials (#700-020 VSE) |
Adopting the Cisco Business Architecture Approach (DTBAA) v1.0 | |
| Engineer | Cisco Video Infrastructure Design exam (#500-701VID) | Cisco Video Infrastructure Design (VID) | |
Advanced Technology 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.
Architecture Specializations can also be applied toward Premier Certification or Silver Certification.
| Advanced Unified Computing Technology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | #810-440 | ||
| Systems Engineer | #642-998 DCUCD | Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCD) | |
| Field Engineer | #642-999 DCUCI | Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCI) |
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| Advanced Video | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | #810-440 #700-001 VSSR |
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| Systems Engineer | #500-007 VTVS1 | Implementing Cisco TelePresence Video Solutions Part 1 (VTVS1) [eLearning] | |
| Field Engineer | #500-006 VTVS2 | Implementing Cisco TelePresence Video Solutions Part 2 (VTVS2) |
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| Advanced Service Provider Mobility Technology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | #700-205 | Selling Mobile Internet Architecture [eLearning] | |
| Systems Engineer | #500-215 |
Mobile Internet Technology for System Engineers [eLearning] | |
| Field Engineer |
Cisco Service Provider Mobility CDMA to LTE Specialist
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| Advanced Service Provider Optical Technology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | #810-440 #700-201 | Selling Cisco Optical [eLearning] | |
| Systems Engineer | #500-205 |
Selling Cisco Optical [eLearning] | |
| Field Engineer | #500-210 |
NCS 2000 and NCS 4000 Technical Overview [eLearning] |
CCNP SP OR
CCIE SP |
| Advanced Service Provider Routing Technology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager |
#810-440
#650-752 |
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| Systems Engineer |
#650-754 |
Selling the IPNGN Architecture [eLearning] | CCNA SP OR CCNP SP OR CCIE SP |
| Field Engineer |
#650-756 | IP NGN Architecture Technology [eLearning] |
CCNP SP OR CCIE SP |
Advanced Architecture 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 Enterprise Networks Architecture | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | #810-440 | ||
| Architecture Systems Engineer | #500-452 | Enterprise Network Core and WAN Essentials Power Workshop (ENCWEPW) | CCDP OR CCDE |
| Field Engineer 1 | - | - |
CCNP R&S OR CCIE R&S |
| Field Engineer 2 | - | - |
CCNP Wireless OR CCIE Wireless |
| Training Requirements Not Allocated to Job Roles |
#300-360 |
Designing Cisco Wireless Enterprise Networks (WIDESIGN) | |
| Advanced Security Architecture | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | #810-440 #700-260 ASAAM | Selling Advanced Security Architecture [eLearning] | |
| Architecture Systems Engineer | #500-265 ASASE | Security Architecture Technology [eLearning] | CCDA OR CCDP OR CCDE |
| Field Engineer | #500-285 SSFIPS #500-275 SSFAMP | CI-SSFIPS Protecting against Malware Threats with Cisco AMP for Endpoints (SSFAMP) |
CCNP Security OR |
| Advanced Collaboration Architecture | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | #810-440 #700-037 PSACAS |
QuickStart for Collaboration Architecture [eLearning] | |
| Architecture Systems Engineer | #700-039 PSACASE |
QuickStart for Collaboration Architecture [eLearning] | CCDA OR CCDP OR CCDE |
| Field Engineer | #700-038 PSACAFE | Collaboration Architecture Technology v2 [eLearning] |
CCNP Voice OR |
| Training Requirements Not Allocated to Job Roles |
#500-052 |
Implementing Cisco Video Network Devices, Part 1 (CIVND1) [eLearning] | |
| Advanced Data Center Architecture | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| Account Manager | #810-440 | ||
| Architecture Systems Engineer | #642-996 DCUFD #642-998 DCUCD | Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (DCUFD) Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCD) | |
| Field Engineer 1 Unified Computing | #642-999 DCUCI #642-035 DCUCT | Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCI) Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (CI-DCUCT) |
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| Field Engineer 2 Unified Fabric | #642-997 DCUFI #642-980 DCUFT | Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (CI-DCUFI) Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (CI-DCUFT) |
CCNP Data Center OR CCNP R&S OR |
| Advanced Service Provider Architecture | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Role | Test | Recommended Training | Prerequisites |
| • Routing and Optical Path | |||
| Account Manager |
#650-752 |
Selling the IPNGN Architecture [eLearning] | |
| Architecture Systems Engineer |
#650-754 |
Selling the IP NGN Architecture [eLearning] | CCNA SP OR CCNP SP OR CCIE SP |
| Field Engineer |
#650-756 |
IP NGN Architecture Technology [eLearning] |
CCNP SP OR CCIE SP |
| • Routing and Mobility Path | |||
| Account Manager |
#810-403
#650-752 |
Selling the IPNGN Architecture [eLearning] | |
| Architecture Systems Engineer |
#650-754 |
Selling the IP NGN Architecture [eLearning] | CCNA SP OR CCNP SP OR CCIE SP |
| Field Engineer |
#650-756 |
IP NGN Architecture Technology [eLearning] |
CCNP SP OR
CCIE SP
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