The IP Communications Express Specialization recognizes partners for their knowledge and expertise in selling, designing, installing, and supporting an IP Communications solution for small and medium-sized businesses, particularly enterprise autonomous branch offices. These solutions focus on single-site and limited-site entry-level converged network opportunities that have a low degree of complexity. By achieving an IP Communications Express Specialization, your company can boost its credibility with customers by enhancing your ability to deliver advanced voice applications that use IP as the transport technology that spans the customer premise to the network core.
The IP Communications Express Specialization is worth 20 points towards certification under the Cisco Channel Partner Program.
The IP Communications Express Specialization allows you to deploy and support a highly scalable, reliable, and available distributed multi-service solution in a small office or remote site. The IP Communications Express Specialization focuses on the following products:
Some Cisco IP Communications products may be restricted for sale by IP Communications Express Specialized Partners only. Please check with your channel account manager to see if restrictions apply in your geography.
Note: Existing specialized and ATP partners will keep their badge(s) until its annual specified expiration date. However, if a partner achieves one of the new IPC specializations before the existing specialization or Advanced Technology Program expires, the old specialization and/or ATP will be invalid. Partners may not hold more than one IPC specialization at a time (for instance, a partner cannot hold the IPT-Revised Specialization and an IPC Express or an IPC Specialization).
