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Westcon and Cisco executives on Wednesday used the opening of Westcon's Denver, Colo.-based LEAP Center to not only show off a state-of-the-art demonstration and training center, but also to educate solution providers on the potential opportunities available with Cisco's UCS platform.
Westcon Group's new LEAP Center is based on the Cisco UCS platform, and provides an opportunity for solution providers to get hands-on training and accreditation with UCS as well as bring customers in to see how UCS might work in their own data center environments.
"LEAP" is an acronym for Learn, Educate, Architect, and Plan, which describes the Center's primary functions, said George Fandos, vice president for the global data center business of Comstor, the group within Westcon focused primarily on the distribution of Cisco technology.
The LEAP Center is more than a demonstration lab, Fandos said.
It includes a fully-stocked classroom, a Cisco TelePresence video conferencing system for distance learning, a full-time engineering staff, a 24x7 support infrastructure, and a complete library of demo labs and applications, he said.
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