CRN Networking News

Intelisys wants to help partners get started with a contact center solution for parnters that is based on Talkdesk, as well as a new certification program for solution providers.

The cable giant ended 2017 with double-digit growth across what it called its 'exceptional' business services revenue, as well as connectivity services revenue.

Fake Cisco gear fails far more frequently than genuine Cisco products, and those failures "can cause privacy and security vulnerabilities, data loss, network downtime and substantial business interruption," Cisco said.

'Our focus is to use the assets that we have today to be competitive in ways the others can't compete. We see much more opportunity to be innovative versus using tax reform to bring our prices down,' Lowell McAdam said on the company's earnings call Tuesday.

In an update to a security advisory, the networking giant says it is investigating several network application, service and acceleration products, as well as network management, routing and server products.

Comcast is fully embracing the public cloud to help run its own products and services more efficiently, as well as evolve its offerings more quickly for customers and partners.

Partners can leverage ETA to help customers understand 'how they can have more efficient security' and will be able to build out a larger practice with larger deal sizes, says Cisco executive Prashanth Shenoy.

With Connection Pro, solution providers can start earning additional revenue on the cost-effective internet add-on, while ensuring near-100 percent uptime for their SMB customers.

New Nectar executive Ken Archer spoke with CRN about recruiting partners to the network monitoring and performance management firm and how he'll attack the booming unified communications market.