Aspire And Cisco: Powering Transformation Together

The Aspire-Cisco Strategic Partnership Empowers Businesses to Achieve Transformative Results

Aspire is a leading regional Cisco partner for almost twenty years – consistently providing trusted and reliable technical expertise, diverse technical perspectives and skill sets from our continuously growing resources of subject matter experts. Our technical knowhow and years of experience designing, implementing, and managing secure solutions perfectly aligns with the robust and innovative Cisco Architectures. Together, our combined forces guide and propel our customers in achieving transformative results that promote productivity and work efficiency, help control costs, and provide customers with more time for innovation and business growth.

Cisco recognizes Aspire for our exemplary performance as a Cisco business partner. For many years, Aspire is recognized for its outstanding performance and excellent execution in the various Cisco Architectures as well as its unique go-to-market approach covering the markets we serve.

Cisco Software Partner of the Year
America US East:  2023

Environmental Sustainability Specialization 2023

Cisco Execution Excellence Partner of the Year
America US East:  New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania 2022

Cisco Execution Excellence Partner of the Year
America US East:  New England 2022

Cisco Environmental Sustainability Specialization
America US: 2022

Cisco Execution Excellence Partner of the Year
America US:  New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania  2021

Cisco Execution Excellence Partner of the Year
America US:  New England Region 2021

Webex Customer Experience Partner – Americas Rising Star
Americas US: 2021

Cisco IoT/Industry Partner of the Year
Americas US: East – 2020

Cisco Meraki Elevate Partner of the Year
Americas US: East – 2020

Cisco SLED Partner of the Year
Americas US: East – 2019

Cisco Execution Excellence: Regional Partner of the Year
Americas US: East – 2019

Cisco SLED Education Partner of the Year
Americas US Public Sector – 2018

Cisco SLED Partner of the Year
Americas US: East – 2018

Cisco Execution Excellence: Regional Partner of the Year
Americas US: East – 2018

You can find more listings of Aspire recognitions and awards here.

The Markets We Serve

Academic institutions realize transformation when they align technology strategies with education initiatives. Cisco and Aspire work together with education leaders to support active learning through the development of impactful solutions, such as immersive video and data analytics, that reimagine the traditional classroom and learning experience.

SUCCESS STORY: Aspire and Cisco Umbrella Bolster School Defenses Against Ransomware & Other Threats

A large New Jersey public school district, after malware and ransomware hit the school district’s local city government and police department, feared that the attackers would target them next. They needed to take immediate preventative measures to protect student, faculty, and other sensitive data—on and off campus. They lacked adequate protection, visibility into malware and phishing attempts, as well as command & control attacks that could target Internet-connected devices.

Read more about the solution that built enforcement into the foundation of the Internet >

Healthcare institutions require secure and reliable virtual experiences that connect patients with doctors while keeping them safe, secure, and apart. The work begins with an idea and ends with an outcome and in between is a digital journey designed to improve the most critical and important aspects of care for your healthcare institution. Aspire and Cisco work in partnership with healthcare organizations to coordinate better care, enhance patient safety, improve health outcomes, and deliver quality telehealth solutions.

SUCCESS STORY: Kaleida Cares

Kaleida Health is the largest health care system in western New York and the largest employer, with roughly two billion dollars in gross revenue. The Kaleida Health System is a conglomerate of home care agencies, acute care hospitals, freestanding children’s hospital, and multiple outpatient clinic sites and emergency departments. Kaleida needed a simple-to-use technology solution physicians, the clinicians, and their patients that brought together care teams across the continuum. The Cisco-Aspire Telehealth Solution met the need and expectation.

Watch the video on Kaleida Health and the Cisco-Aspire Advantage >

Commercial business is rapidly changing how they deliver services to customers, suppliers, and partners. An expertly architected, secure, and well-managed network is the foundation for achieving business success and transformation. Aspire and Cisco help companies create a sustainable and competitive advantage, drive growth and profitably, improve efficiency, and increase employee productivity and engagement through advanced technology solutions, ongoing support, and customer success programs.

SUCCESS STORY: Removing Video Conferencing Barriers

This publicly traded, leading provider of weight loss products had an unreliable and cumbersome existing video conference solution in its executive boardroom, which led to inefficient meetings, lost productivity, unnecessary travel, and a general sense of frustration. Senior leadership needed an easy-to-use, high-quality meeting experience that resulted in broad adoption and use of their collaboration technology investment.

Learn about the solution that transformed the meeting experience >

Solution Highlights

Work Smarter with Webex Calling

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Cisco Secure SD-WAN

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Hyperflex-Hyperconvergence Anywhere

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Cisco Enterprise Agreements

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Cisco Managed Services

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Cisco Customer Success

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Cisco Certifications & Specializations

Hover on the badges below to learn more about each of our Cisco certifications and specializations.

Gold Certified Partner

Gold Certified Partners demonstrate the broadest range of expertise across enterprise architectures, including Security, Networking, Collaboration, Data Center Virtualization, and SP Technology.

Master Specialized in Security

This distinguishes Aspire as an elite partner who is invested in the most in-depth technology skills training and has fulfilled program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support highly sophisticated Cisco network security solutions.

Master Specialization in Networking

This Master Specialization validates that Aspire can provide sophisticated, value-added Cisco solutions through their in-depth sales capabilities, technology skills, and service offerings in the USA.

Master Specialization in Collaboration

Aspire brings Master-level expertise, technical efficiency, and has fulfilled training requirements and program prerequisites to design, implement, and provide on-going management of advanced Cisco Collaboration solutions.

Master in Cloud and Managed Services

Aspire delivers services with enterprise-class reliability, security, and support, and is invested and committed to provide managed services at Cisco’s highest standards helping businesses and organizations realize faster time to value.

Cisco Advanced Customer Experience Specialization

This highest tier of customer experience specialization identifies that Aspire has the right people, processes, and tools to lead a successful Customer Experience practice, with services throughout the customer lifecycle.

Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization

Aspire has the ability to deploy technologies that align architectural components with the customer strategic goals, helping transform business processes, boost organizational efficiency and accelerate the time to market.

Cisco IoT Authorized Partner

Aspire is authorized to deliver and implement simple, secure, and scalable end-to-end Cisco IoT solutions, based on architectures and open standards that integrate with third-party and legacy equipment.

Environmental Sustainability Specialization

Aspire Technology Partners has implemented the Initiatives above in an effort to achieve goals within our facilities which can be found below.

Energy and Resource Efficiency:
Goal: Reduce overall energy consumption from baseline (2022) 78,000 KWH to 77,500 KWH in Warehouse facility by October 2025.

Initiatives: Utilize lighting sensors and temperature control system enhancements to minimize energy.

Energy and Resource Efficiency:
Goal: Reduce overall energy consumption from baseline (2022) 291,500 KWH to 291,000 KWH at our Office Headquarters location by October 2025.

Initiatives: Utilize lighting sensors and temperature control system enhancements to minimize energy.