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AT&T, Verizon To Postpone 5G Infrastructure Rollouts Near Major U.S. Airports
by Gina Narcisi
Following an ongoing battle with the FAA, two carrier giants agreed to postpone their planned rollouts of C-Band-powered 5G services near airports to give the agency more time to study potential interference between the mid-band 5G technology and aviation systems.
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Avaya Experience Builders A ‘Lego Kit’ For Partners In ‘Experience Economy’
by Gina Narcisi
‘Experience Builders is really just an extension of that down to the CPaaS capabilities, where we can take those fundamental components or building blocks and do something interesting with them that just hasn’t been done before,’ one Avaya partner tells CRN.
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How One Mother Paved The Way For Her Daughter In IT
by C.J. Fairfield
“When she first started at Ingram, one of the biggest things was when you walk down the hallways people would say, ‘Is Stacie your daughter?’ and I would hear that constantly. Years later it turned around and it was, ‘Oh, you‘re Stacie’s mom.’” says Sue Odrobina, inside sales representative for World Wide Technologies, at the The Channel Company’s Women of the Channel East 2021 conference.
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Red Hat Exec: We Can’t Talk About Diversity Without Talking About Inclusion
by C.J. Fairfield
‘The value in learning how to help someone be who they are and treat them with respect based on their identity is the best thing you can do,’ said Red Hat’s Margaret Dawson in a keynote at the Women Of The Channel Leadership Summit East.
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Aryaka Reveals ‘Breakthrough’ Managed SD-WAN, SASE Portfolio Expansion
by Gina Narcisi
On the heels of its Secucloud acquisition and a full channel revamp, Aryaka is launching three new managed SD-WAN and SASE offerings for enterprises of all sizes.
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Aruba EdgeConnect Microbranch Extends Security, SD-WAN Into The Home Office
by Gina Narcisi
The HPE-owned company’s latest remote networking offering is a “powerful” solution that pushes SD-WAN and security services out to the home office, retail pop-ups and kiosks, and microbranch locations, through only one dedicated appliance, one Aruba partner told CRN.
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Avaya CEO Jim Chirico On ‘Landmark’ 2021 And ‘Reshaping’ To A Cloud-First Company Bent On Breaking Records
by Gina Narcisi
‘We grew full-year revenue by $100 million, which is a first. I think equally as important is how we’ve been able to reshape the company; really becoming a cloud first company,’ Avaya CEO Jim Chirico tells CRN.
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Ericsson Buying Vonage For $6.2B To Boost API, 5G And CPaaS Capabilities
by Mark Haranas
‘Imagine putting the power and capabilities of 5G, the biggest global innovation platform, at the fingertips of developers. Then back it with Vonage’s advanced capabilities in a world of 8 billion connected devices. Today we are making that possible,’ said Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm.
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Cisco’s Chuck Robbins: We’re Taking ‘Multiple Steps’ To ‘Mitigate Supply Shortages’
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We ... have been working closely with our key suppliers and contract manufacturers, paying significantly higher logistics costs to get the components where they’re most needed, working on modifying our designs to utilize alternative suppliers where possible, and constantly optimizing our build and delivery plans,’ says Cisco Chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins.
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Cisco Provides Partners A Path To Drive CX With New Success Insights Platform
by Gina Narcisi
Cisco’s new platform will give channel partners more visibility and tools to track customer success, a process that has been a heavy lift for some solution providers, Cisco partners tells CRN.
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Cisco Partners Will Help Company Reach Ambitious Sustainability Goals, Execs Say
by Gina Narcisi
Along with its updated net zero targets, Cisco is also introducing a brand new Environmental Sustainability Specialization for partners, the company unveiled at Cisco Partner Summit 2021.
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Radical Revamp Of Cisco EA Create ‘Premium And Simplified’ IT Buying Experiences
by Gina Narcisi
‘EA 3.0 is really [giving us] a differentiated position and making sure that we have one agreement and one experience across the board to make it operationally earlier for partners and more flexible across the various product families,’ Cisco’s Americas Channel Leader John Moses tells CRN.
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Cisco Partner Program, Specializations Revamp Arm Partners With Cross-Architectural Selling Muscle
by Gina Narcisi
The tech giant is undergoing its biggest business transformation in the company’s history. As such, Cisco is incentivizing partners to differentiate and transact with their customers in new ways via roles within the Cisco Partner Program and an overhaul of its Specialization portfolio.
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