Are you all in on IoT? Partners and customers are making big bets on IoT connectivity.

As Cisco partners see the unique global opportunities IoT brings to the table, they are leveraging our ruggedized portfolio of products.  This is helping them to spearhead efforts to differentiate and capture incremental revenue as customers accelerate IoT transformational investments across industries.

In late November, Cisco began offering partner training to build IoT sales and system engineering capabilities with the Cisco IoT portfolio.  In just the last five months, more than 1,300 partner salespeople have attended sales training.  In addition, more than 600 partner system engineers have attended system engineer training.  We also launched a new IoT Authorization at the end of January.  In a short three months, 57 partners from approximately 20 countries are now fully authorized for Cisco