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ASi Earns Cisco Advanced Collaboration Architecture Specialization
New collaboration technology can accelerate teamwork and create more meaningful customer experiences.We can help you connect with your customers, partners, and suppliers using sophisticated Cisco solutions including unified communications, conferencing,...
ASi Earns Cisco Advanced Security Architecture Specialization
New security breaches are happening every day. It is vital for organizations to protect themselves against cyber attacks. By achieving the Advanced Security Architecture Specialization, Cisco recognizes that ASi Networks has achieved a high level of...
Webex Collaboration Receives an EXCELLENT Rating from PC Magazine and is the Overall Award Winner for CRN’s ARC Report Card
Author: Aruna RavichandranDate: August 20, 2019Cisco Webex was recently named CRN’s Overall Winner in the 2019 Annual Report Card (ARC) survey for collaboration and earned an EXCELLENT rating by PC magazine, making it an Editor’s Choice.The PCMag excellent...
Cisco Co-Innovation Centers are Giving Connectivity a Health-Check
Author: Nick ChrissosDate: August 19, 2019Healthcare is something that, at one point or another, touches upon every single person – whether it’s their own health or that of older or more vulnerable relatives.Yet, across Europe, access to both reactive and...
How Team Collaboration Solutions Have Emerged to Replace Email
Author: Edel JoyceDate: August 15, 2019Workplace Transformation: The Art of CommunicationFor the last 15 years I have been centralising my working world around e-mail. One of the first things I received when I started my first job, was not a laptop or a...
Why the future of AI needs ethical human judgement
Author: Melissa Rowley Date: August 13, 2019 The importance of human judgement in the programming of AI. Imagine a fraud detection system checking your credit card transactions to see if someone is illegally using your card. Odds are the system is using an...
ASi Networks achieves Cisco Hyperflex Authorization
Our engineers demonstrated their ability to design, deploy, and support custom hyperconverged solutions and achieved the Hyperflex Authorization from Cisco. What is a hyperconverged system? A hyperconverged system combines computing, storage, and...
Windows Server 2008 & Windows 7 End-of-Life
Date: 7/26/2019Author: Miranda Hebert Cyber attacks are looming. On January 14, 2020, Microsoft will end all support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. That means Microsoft will no longer provide automatic fixes, updates, patches, or technical support....
Collaboration Technology Evolves to Support Changing Workplace
Author: Tomoyo MatsunoDate: July 3, 2019 Refreshing the 10-year-old Tokyo officeAt the end of 2017, the renovation of our Tokyo office was announced to Cisco Japan employees. It had been 10 years since the company had moved to the Tokyo Midtown Tower in...
Cognitive Collaboration is Needed and Wanted Now
Author: David GehringerDate: July 2, 2019 For many business professionals, meeting collaboration tools have become critical to accomplishing their core goals and tasks every week. But are they effective enough?Cognitive Collaboration ToolsCisco recently...
Engage Your Teams With New Ways of Using Your Cisco Webex Devices
Author: Sara SantosDate: June 27, 2019If you’re like most Cisco customers, your meeting rooms and open workspaces don’t do only one job – they’re multi-purpose. And when you aren’t collaborating, your video conferencing systems in these spaces should be...
Teachers as Entrepreneurs: Applying Ed Tech to Better Learning Outcomes
Author: Renee PattonDate: June 19, 2019I happened across a great (albeit non-Webster’s) definition of “entrepreneur” from the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center website today:—Entrepreneur/noun en.tre.pre.neurSomeone who’s willing to sacrifice sleep, sanity,...
Create Magic Moments to Transform Your Workspaces
Author: Lorrissa HortonDate: June 11, 2019 In my last blog, I talked about how Cisco Webex Teams supports your modern-day work experience. I highlighted how Webex Teams delivers a best-in-class messaging, meeting, and calling experience. Now, I want to...
New Employee: Denise Lisenko
Meet Denise Lisenko who recently joined the ASi sales team as a Sr. Sales Account Executive. Denise has a diverse background and brings with her years of experience helping companies with their learning and development initiatives. She was born and...
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Contact Centers
Author: Vasili TriantDate: May 23, 2019AI is shaping the future of customer experiences and the contact center.Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating a lot of excitement and there are good reasons for this. According to Forbes, 50% of IT professionals...
New Employee: Erick Velazquez
We are happy to welcome Erick Velazquez to the ASi family! Erick is joining our team as a Structured Cable Technician following in his brother Alfonso’s footsteps here at ASi. He works in our DataComm division under the leadership of Dustin D'Amato. Erick...
How to Get On the Road to Cloud Calling Success
Author: Scott Hoffpauir Date: May 20, 2019 A Road to Somewhere Taking your business to a cloud calling model can sometimes feel like starting out on a long, cross-country drive without a map, nor a clear destination, nor timeline. There are so many options that make...
Why Webex Teams is a Seamless Fit for All Customers
Author: Lorrissa HortonDate: April 18, 2019When I started at Cisco last year, one of my first impressions was that we have some of the most passionate and enthusiastic customers in the world. Many of them choose to partner with us as they embark upon their...
Collaboration goes futuristic with Wi-Fi 6
Author: Stephanie Chan Date: April 11, 2019 How the next Wi-Fi generation will change the way we work. Imagine taking meetings as if you were playing a realistic VR game–except instead of gameplay, you’re sitting in a virtual boardroom and brainstorming with...
Another Red Dot Design Award for Cisco Collaboration…This Time for the Room Kit Mini
Author: Scott EdwardsDate: April 8, 2019We are thrilled that the 2019 Red Dot Awards have just been announced, and once again Cisco has been given this prestigious award, this time for our recently launched Cisco Webex Room Kit Mini video conferencing...
Bringing It All Together: Industry 4.0 at HMI
Author: Samuel PasquierDate: April 3, 2019As I look around the show floor here at Hannover Messe 2019, I’m impressed by the variety of companies in attendance. You can find everything from industrial sensors. Cables. PLC. Software. Applications. Cloud....
Three Challenges to Accelerating Industry 4.0
Author: Paul Didier Date: April 3, 2019 My time at Hannover Messe 2019 has confirmed: Manufacturers recognize the value of investing in Industry 4.0. They see the potential of pushing the Internet to the edges of the machines in their production environments. And...
There’s a Billion Ways to Use Cisco Webex Board
Author: Aruna Ravichandran Date: April 1, 2019 The Digital Whiteboard for Modern Business Challenges “A thing of beauty, isn’t it? All written out like this?” Those are the words of Douglas Mason, talking with Taylor Mason in the March 31 episode of Billions, the...
The Digital Factory, Open For Business
Author: Liz Centoni Date: April 1, 2019 One thing about Hannover Messe that is unmistakable? The huge SCALE of the event. Thousands of exhibitors. Hundreds of thousands of the world’s smartest people in manufacturing. A massive exhibition footprint. Scale is something...
