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The Advanced Data Center Networking Infrastructure Specialization recognizes partners for their knowledge and expertise in selling, designing, installing, and supporting a comprehensive Data Center solution, including both infrastructure and applications.

The Advanced Data Center Networking Infrastructure Specialization is designed to help partners meet a wide range of customer needs—from small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) all the way up to enterprise-scale organizations. It focuses on data center networking market opportunities that require advanced product knowledge and the ability to deploy solutions over multiple sites and geographies. Achieving this specialization can boost your company's credibility with customers by enhancing your ability to deliver an advanced data center networking solution using IP as the transport technology that spans the distance from the customer premises to the network core.

The Advanced Data Center Networking Infrastructure Specialization includes the following products:

• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switching Chassis with a 15+Tb lossless fabric
• Cisco NX-OS multiprocessor/multithreaded OS, which allows feature-rich implementation without performance degradation
• Cisco NX-NM Network Management Module
• Cisco TrustSec, delivering per-packet encryption at wire speed
• Cisco Catalyst 3100 Series Blade Switches
• Cisco Catalyst 4900M Series Access Layer Switches (top-of-rack switches)
• Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series 16-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Card
• Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
• Cisco Intrusion Detection System Services Module 2 (IDSM-2)
• Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM)
• Applications Control Engine (ACE) Appliance
• ACE Service Module (ASM)
• Global Site Selector (GSS)
• Applications Networking Manager (ANM)
• Content Switching Module (CSM)
• Content Services Switch (CSS)

Grow Your Business: Building a Data Center Practice (video - 43 min.)
Learn about trends, market, and demand drivers for Cisco Data Center solutions. Explore opportunities to focus your sales efforts and new partner resources.

Note: Some Cisco data center networking infrastructure products may be restricted for sale by Advanced Data Center Networking Infrastructure Specialized Partners only. Please check with your channel account manager to see if restrictions apply in your geographic region.

Partner Sales Enablement Kit