Re: OT - ACE Rack Rental?

Hi Greg,

No, there are no revenue requirements for basic partnership.
Obviously you won't be getting gold status or any of that, but you can
become a basic partner with zero revenue. It's been a while since I
went through the process, but I seem to recall that the basic
requirement is that you be an officer (pres/ceo) of an incorporated
company and not just an LLC or something along that line. I don't
recall if there were any "years in business" type of requirements.
It's been too long for this crusty old brain to recall all of the
details but the bottom line is that it's not all that difficult if you
have incorporated a company.

Regards,

Scott

On Apr 23, 2009, at 10:57 , Gregory Gombas wrote:

> Hey Scott,
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> I was actually thinking about becoming some sort of Cisco partner
> down the road.
> Being a single CCIE, one man shop, what level of partnership do you
> think I can attain?
> Do I need to meet some sort of sales quotas for Cisco gear first?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Scott M Vermillion
> <scott_ccie_list_at_it-ag.com> wrote:
>> Hey Greg,
>>
>> IIRC, that module is for 6500s and 7600s only, so no Dynamips
>> support. I'm
>> normally very bullish on the PEC labs but was not terribly
>> impressed with
>> the ACE series, so you're not missing out on too much there, IMHO.
>> You do
>> gain a basic familiarization and a healthy disrespect for how they've
>> recycled class-map and policy-map code. YUCK!! I think you're
>> going to
>> need to either take a class or try to gain access to some lab gear
>> via Cisco
>> somehow.
>>
>> You are an independent consultant, no? You have a couple of
>> choices if
>> you're interested in PEC access. If you're fully incorporated, you
>> can
>> establish a partner relationship for your company (it's not as
>> difficult as
>> one might think). Or you can just affiliate with someone who
>> already has.
>> Lastly, there's a consultant type of relationship that you can
>> establish
>> with Cisco, but I don't think it affords you full access, so PEC
>> might still
>> be off the table with this option.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On Apr 22, 2009, at 6:05 , Gregory Gombas wrote:
>>
>>> Hi gang,
>>>
>>> Do any of you know where I can rent rack time for the Cisco ACE
>>> module
>>> or appliance?
>>>
>>> Also is it possible they have added the ACE to dynamips?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Greg
>>>
>>>
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