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IPLogic, Inc. Recognized by Cisco as an Outdoor Wireless Mesh Authorized Technology Provider
| Source: IPLogic, Inc.
ALBANY, NY--(Marketwire - March 3, 2008) - IPLogic, Inc., a leading communications
technology solutions provider, announced today that it has achieved the
Outdoor Wireless Mesh Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) status from
Cisco. This designation recognizes IPLogic as having fulfilled the training
requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support Cisco
Outdoor Wireless Mesh solutions.
Municipalities around the world are broadening Internet access in order to
improve community services and give public service employees, such as those
in police, fire, and public works departments, highly secure access to
the information they need in the field. This ATP program enables channel
partners to provide reliable and highly secure Wi-Fi access using a
high-performance, ruggedized platform that can be easily installed on
streetlight posts and other outdoor locations.
"As a Cisco Gold Certified Partner, customers depend on proven expertise,
both in a deployment environment and in the classroom," commented Ken
Yanneck, president of IPLogic, Inc.
"Our team of wireless mesh subject matter experts has not only completed
the required training, but has already delivered solutions in several of
our local markets. I am extremely proud of their accomplishments, and look
forward to our ability to bring Cisco wireless mesh solutions to our
clients on a much broader scale."
The redundancy of wireless mesh makes it an attractive solution to
extending Internet access beyond traditional boundaries in local
communities. In addition, wireless mesh networks can self-heal, providing
an extremely reliable access solution to the community even when a node
goes down, and particularly to public service personnel in emergency
situations. It can scale to a large number of nodes, allowing a
municipality to grow the network very easily over time.
"Cisco Authorized Technology Provider Partners are instrumental in helping
our customers successfully deploy some of the most sophisticated networking
solutions in the market today," said Edison Peres, vice president and chief
go-to-market officer for Worldwide Channels at Cisco. "As a Cisco Outdoor
Wireless Mesh ATP partner, IPLogic
has received the training and demonstrates the expertise necessary to
enable our joint customers to safely improve the delivery of critical
community services using highly secure WiFi access and high-performance,
ruggedized platforms."
IPLogic recently helped the city of
Buffalo on an economic development initiative to provide free WiFi access
in urban centers throughout western New York. Members of these communities
will be able to access these hot spots thanks to a comprehensive network of
wireless mesh nodes deployed around the city. The project is an initiative
that will be rolled out to a variety of high-use areas.
To qualify for Outdoor Wireless Mesh ATP status, IPLogic had to meet a number of
requirements, from fulfilling specific job responsibilities and achieving
the Cisco Advanced Wireless LAN Specialization, to maintaining high levels
of customer satisfaction. Partners are also required to build a lab for
demonstration and customer-fault replication. The lab must contain
current, upgraded and maintained Cisco Outdoor Wireless Mesh solutions
configured for "real-world" testing to simulate actual end-user conditions.
The Cisco Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) Program is a key part of
Cisco's emerging technology go-to-market strategy. The program helps
define the knowledge, skills and services that channel partners like IPLogic need to successfully sell,
deploy and support a subject technology. As markets mature and
technologies progress along the adoption curve, some ATP programs may
migrate to Cisco Specializations.
About IPLogic
IPLogic, Inc. delivers converged voice, data, and multimedia solutions that
increase revenue, decrease cost, and maximize organizational productivity
for clients. Serving medium to large organizations across the states of
New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, IPLogic
expertise includes voice and unified communications through traditional PBX
and converged IP telephony and multimedia communications, network security,
network infrastructure (LAN/WAN), mobility and wireless network solutions,
multimedia solutions, managed IT and network services, and training and IT
staff augmentation solutions. We empower clients to Connect, Communicate,
and Compete - Better™. For more information, visit www.iplogic.com.
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