As a Strategic Partner with Cisco, and a proud member of Cisco’s African
American Cisco Partnership Community (AACPC), Communications Professionals is positioned to take advantage of Cisco’s expansive product mix, technical knowledge, mentoring and financial support that is opening doors for our company that might not otherwise have been opened.
For all of your IT Peripheral, Hardware, Software, Managed Services, Security and Network Management needs Communications Professionals has the right solution for you.
Beginning as a community for Cisco partners of color, the African American Cisco Partner Community (AACPC) is successfully spotlighting Black-owned partners that are building specialized technology and managed services practices and supporting their communities.
“This isn’t something that was just an HR issue, or about people in certain communities, it’s become a Cisco movement,” Jason Gallo, global vice president of Partner Sales Business Development at Cisco, told CRN about the AACPC.
Gallo, in addition to his “day job” arming partners with sales and enablement resources to score enterprise and cloud networking, compute, IoT, observability and security deals, is an executive sponsor of his local chapter of Cisco’s Connected Black Professionals Employee Resource Group and is passionate about helping diverse partners increase their profitability and grow their organizations in the ways that matter most to them.
The African American Cisco Partner Community (AACPC) stems from Social Justice Action 10.
Action 10 is Cisco’s commitment of $50M over 5 years to increase diversity in our partner ecosystem.
The AACPC Core Team’s mission is to attract and accelerate the holistic growth of African American/Black-owned partners not just through financial investment, but also through internal and external envangelization of this partner community’s presence in the industry and their ability to drive business outcomes through technology.
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Increase the number of AA/Black owned technology companies in our partner ecosystem.
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Increase opportunities to accelerate financial growth for AA/Black owned technology company partners.
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Increase the hiring of AA/Black employees into tech and management roles across our partner ecosystem.
Cisco Solutions.
A cloud-based network platform with real management experience.
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Manage your entire distributed network infrastructure in a single interface—the Meraki dashboard.
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Hybrid workforces, smart campuses, and new applications are putting networks to the test. The Meraki platform captures over 23 billion data points every week to automatically adapt to tomorrow’s requirements.
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Webex
Cloud calling made easy
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Virtual presentations become as good as in-person meetings when you layer yourself over the content you’re sharing.
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Create a more efficient workflow with team messaging and file sharing for both internal and external teams—all in the same space.
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Encourage more active participation in meetings and events with easy interactive audience tools for polling and Q&A.
Host interactive webinars and events for virtual and in-person audiences.
Host large virtual events with up to 100,000 attendees and reach more corners of the world.
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