Announcing Partner Exchange: Bringing Partners Together

Partner Exchange is a trusted collaboration network that will enable you to find and be found by other Cisco partners.

You can quickly and easily search, connect and collaborate with the “right people at the right partner” who have the technology expertise, applications, and geographic focus to help you grow your business. It is a vital tool to help you with customer engagements, expand into new markets, and develop strategic partnerships.


Partner Exchange can be easily accessed at www.ciscopartnerspace.com.

Join the Partner Exchange network to promote your group’s capabilities and start networking today!

Training Update: Channels University ValueSelling for Account Managers

On April 10th and 11th, this 2-day program focuses on ValueSelling and will be held in our New York City Office. The Channels University ValueSelling course is an instructor-led course presented by Cisco Channels to new-hire partner System Engineers and Account Managers. Please contact your Channel Account Manager for more information.

Cisco Announces Virtual Partner Summit 2008

We are happy to announce that Cisco has decided to augment the annual Partner Summit, held this year in Hawaii with online, streaming access to the session speakers. Access will be provided for FREE!

Virtual Partner Summit will allow Cisco to expand access to Partner Summit by extending our reach to all partners globally.

Through this virtual experience partners can:
* View keynotes and general sessions via live streaming video
* Access Technical Solutions Forum (TSF) booths
* Download breakout session presentations
* Collaborate with Cisco and partners
* Participate in networking forums
* Link to press announcements & live partner blogs

Sessions will start on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 & end on Thursday, April 10, 2008.

This is your chance to see:
* John Chambers (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer)
* Keith Goodwin (Senior Vice President, Worldwide Channels)
* Wendy Bahr (Vice President, US & Canada Channels)
* Rick Justice (Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations and Business Development)
* Donald R. Proctor (Senior Vice President, Software Group)
* Tony Bates, Technology Vision
* Jayshree Ullal (TBC), DataCenter
* Barry O’Sullivan, Unified Communications
* Marthin De Beer, Video
* Karl Meulema, Services

Register to attend the session (hosted through "Partner Space"): http://www.ciscopartnerspace.com/ciscopartnerspace/rtCiscoBridge.jsp?seid=2267&id=2242

More Information can be found here: http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le21/le34/partnersummit/2008/partner/virtual.html

See you in Cyberspace!

Welcome to the Metro Channel Team's Blog

We are proud to introduce our new blog for our Metro Channel Community. Our intention is to provide you with a site to see what events are scheduled in the Metro Area, an opportunity to gain insight into our local initatives, identified quick links that are important to our partners and to have a little fun. We also look forward to your feedback through private postings as well as surveys.

Check-out the click to chat feature...it is staffed by a local Channel Account Manager who will answer your question or be able to point you in the right direction. Also visit the "Fun" page as you'll get an opportunity to know us a little better. We'll post restaurant reviews, recipes and other silly things that we hope you enjoy! As we kick off the blog we hope you'll give us feedback along the way; the good, the bad and the ugly.

Enjoy...we'll see you in cyberspace!

Familiarize Yourself with the QuickStart Training on the Blog:

Learn More about Cisco's Recently-launched Managed Services Channel Program (MSCP)

The Managed Services Channel Program (MSCP) rewards managed service providers based upon the value their managed services bring to the market. The program defines managed services based on market and industry standard best practices and validates a provider’s managed service against those standards. It also offers escalating rewards tied to the value delivered.

For more information, visit the website at: http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/pr11/mscp/index.html