Take advantage of the wealth of opportunities you'll find from joining the Cisco Partner Exchange collaboration network on Cisco Partner Space.  By publishing your group profile, you'll be entered to win one of ten video flip cameras.

Cisco has aligned with Netformx to offer DesignXpert to channel partners as an all-in-one network discovery and quoting tool. Netformx DesignXpert significantly simplifies network design, increases productivity, identifies additional revenue opportunities, and promotes customer satisfaction. DesignXpert helps you and your customer establish a validated network blueprint that becomes a reliable reference source for managing the network's evolving lifecycle, making you a trusted advisor and not just another vendor.

Cisco is introducing new Catalyst Switching competitive offerings which provide basic functionality with reduced pricing and service cost to help partners win a greater number of deals.  This will also help reduce lost deals where competitors are positioning point products with lower functionality.  These newly developed offerings enable the sales force to engage their customers with a new sales strategy to more clearly demonstrate how the Cisco value enables their business goals and also to provide options for deals at risk.

1.  New Bundle - Catalyst 4506-E

2.  New Catalyst 2960 LAN Lite Switches and Price Reduction

3.  Smart Foundation Extended Coverage

Visit the Cisco Catalyst Switches competitive offerings partner page for more information.

Tune-in to the first of a series of monthly webcasts hosted in Cisco Partner Space, which will examine the latest trends and innovations on personal, inter-company and business-to-business collaboration.

The last major planned release of Cisco Network Assistant, release 5.4 is now available for download on Cisco.com today.

Release 5.4 contains support for several of our key products families:

Cisco Industrial Ethernet 3000 Series

Cisco Catalyst Express 520 Series

Cisco Catalyst 2918 Series

Cisco Catalyst 2960 Lan Lite Series

Cisco Blade Switches for IBM and HP

Cisco Catalyst 4900M Series

New features include topology view enhancements, backup/restore capabilities, configuration template (CE520), TAC logs per device, new Smartport roles for IE, and for apple lovers, MAC OS support.

CNA 5.4 is available as a free ddownload at: www.cisco.com/go/cna

Recognizing that no one understands the needs of SMB customers more than the Cisco channel partners who serve and support them every day, we're listening to you. We've incorporated your feedback into an enhanced SMB portfolio that offers new products, exciting new price points, tools, services, and solutions to help you better meet the needs of your customers.

Today, Cisco is announcing new lower pricing and new products in the Cisco Catalyst 2960 LAN base product family, as well as updates to the SBCS solutions portfolio including.  Read on for more details and links to find more information.

Cisco Unified Workspace Licensing is a simple and affordable way for you to take advantage of Cisco Unified Communications applications and services. 

Watch this video and hear Thierry Drilhon, VP WW Channels, European Markets discuss the importance of Cisco Unified Workspace Licensing.  In addition hear from NextiraOne France, one of our many valued partners, who have been an early adopter of Cisco Unified Workspace Licensing and see how it has completely changed the way they do business.

Learn how 802.11n increases the speed and reliability of wireless networks. This video webcast includes critical strategies for optimizing the design and performance of 802.11n networks.  See the results from joint Intel and Cisco performance testing data and learn from Cisco customers about their real-world implementation experiences.

To provide you and customers with a greater understanding of the Takeback and Recycle Program and how it can be utilised, Phil Smith, European Executive Sponsor for Green and Duncan McCann, WEEE Programme Manager explain more in this short video.  There is also exclusive footage of Cisco's European recycling partner's facilities and a testimonial from Russell Bolan, CEO - Europe of Dimension Data.

The Physical Security Update Pack  is now available via the Secure Solutions tab on the QuickStart homepage.

This Update Pack uses a scenario-based learning approach to highlight recent product innovations that enhance Cisco's Physical Security portfolio.

Be ready to Learn…. 

Why this solution is important to your business
How this will benefit your customers
How the situation was addressed in the past in comparison to how it's addressed with Cisco's Physical Security solutions. 

Cisco is pleased to announce exciting enhancements to Partner Deal Registration (PDR).  These enhancements were launched globally on 7-September, 2008.  Included will be a new, easy to use interface, PDR opportunity collaboration and the ability to request revisions to 2Tier AutoDARTs directly from PDR.   Partners will also have access to Online Tool Collaboration (OTC), giving you the opportunity to provide feedback and ideas for future enhancements.

Campaign Builder is a tool available for you to use free of charge that allows you to create customised marketing activities using a range of pre-designed campaign templates such as email blasts, mailers, postcards, advertisements and much more to generate more demand and awareness for your business - and it's now available across Europe for free!

Cisco and IBM are please to invite you to a special Webinar discussing our joint Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solution and the Network Attached Storage devices. The Webinar will be on Wednesday, October 1 at 19:00.

Our discussion points will include:

• Sales, Marketing, and Positioning
• Technical highlights

Our presenters will be  Davin Oishi , Product Manager with Cisco Systems and Jarrett Potts, Storage Technical Evangelist with IBM.

Register for the October 1 Webinar here:

https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/onstage/g.php?d=929899196&t=a

Registration for Cisco Networkers 2009 is now open with savings of e300 if you Register Now! Cisco Networkers is an award winning, industry leading event specifically designed for IT and communications professionals committed to developing essential industry knowledge and expertise.

Read about how NetXperts designed a wireless network deployment for TBWA\Chiat\Day that supports both wireless voice and data access anywhere in their facility and delivers increased responsiveness and collaboration.

The Cisco® Services Business Controls Organization has recently discovered that several purchases made through Cisco partners, using customers' verified billing information, have been shipped to locations not related to the end customer. The Cisco partner has then been unable to collect payment from the end customer, who turns out to be a victim of identity theft.