Re: Benefits of choosing a Cisco gold partner company.

Yea it is not 60% it i slike 48 to 43 %.

Tony

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Ryan West <rwest_at_zyedge.com> wrote:

> Mahmoud,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:05 AM
> > To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> > Subject: Benefits of choosing a Cisco gold partner company.
> >
> > Dear Experts
> >
> >
> >
> > I am a consultant at a government site ( I am a CCNP engineer), while
> > evaluating a network proposals, one of the government employee asked me
> > why should we choose a company with Cisco Gold partner????
> >
> > I explained him about the support and other benefits, but I think my
> > answer in not enough to him.
> >
> >
> >
> > So anybody have a document about the benefits of Cisco Gold Partner to
> > the customers???
> >
>
> This is from the partner portal and at the very least shows the
> requirements. In most cases, it comes down to size and required seasoned
> team, 12 unique individuals are required for Gold.
>
> Gold: All four of the following specializations: Advanced Routing and
> Switching, Advanced Security, Advanced Unified Communications, and Advanced
> Wireless LAN
>
> Gold Certification requires 12 unique individuals
>
> 4 CCIE's are required and a sales quota must be met. I'm not so sure about
> the 60% off, as an OIP isn't even that high and they are typically more than
> the standard off. The partner also has the choice of being a DVAR and they
> do receive special treatment from Cisco.
>
> As Frog said, it does really come down to money though.
>
>
>
> http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/customer/765/partner_programs/certification/aaggold.pdf
>
>
> http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/pr11/pr8/pr27/partners_pgm_requirements.html
>
> -ryan
>
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