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Build the Network of the Future, Today
Cisco Gold Certified Partner
AHEAD helps you take full advantage of your Cisco platforms to drive innovation in your business. We have earned Cisco’s highest partner designation, with specializations across networking, security, collaboration, full-stack observability, and customer experience.
FEATURED ARTICLE
Learn how AHEAD and Cisco are modernizing networking equipment and lifecycle management to handle the next wave of infrastructure demands. Dive deep into what operationalizing AI means for your network and how to prepare, the challenges that need to be overcome, and how AHEAD can provide strategic, secure solutions.
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Supplemented with the AHEAD Hatch® IT Lifecycle Management Platform
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CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
Hatch has helped us streamline our procurement process, identify and alleviate supply chain constraints, simplify and standardize large multi-site deployments, and improve the quality and accuracy of our asset management. For a $60 billion company, it’s already brought us tremendous value, and we are still just scratching the surface of its capabilities.
Performance Food Group
AHEAD’S CISCO CERTIFICATIONS AND AWARDS
Member of the Cisco Data Center Technical Advisory Board, Partner Lifecycle Advisory Board and the Cisco AI Advisory Board
Cisco certifications
CCIE certifications
Cisco Certified Engineers
Cisco Partner of the Year
WHY AHEAD FOR CISCO?
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Advise
Strategic advisory services expertly tailored to guide your transformation
- Unlock the full power of your Cisco platforms. With cross-functional experts in cloud and data center, AHEAD network teams can leverage the entire Cisco platform to transform your network operations.
- Aging networks are an obstacle to deploying AI workloads. AHEAD constructs custom AI infrastructure across cloud, core, and edge that reduces the stress on your network infrastructure while meeting your business goals for AI.
- AHEAD’s Hatch platform and Foundry infrastructure capabilities allow us to handle large-scale Cisco deployments with full visibility into asset management, logistics, and services.
- AHEAD is authorized to transact Cisco Software and Enterprise License Agreements (ELAs) through AWS Marketplace. AHEAD has structured and transacted the largest Cisco Software EA through AWS to date.
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Transform
Outcome-oriented services to accelerate impact, built on industry-leading platforms with AHEAD IP
- Control costs and simplify software management with FinOps and ServiceNow integrations in AHEAD’s world-class Hatch platform.
- AHEAD engineers are experts in multi-cloud and end-to-end reference architectures and can help you build an adoption strategy and roadmap for cloud networking.
- Security should be the foundation of your network. AHEAD’s employs a Zero Trust framework with a Policy as Code approach to secure IT, OT, and edge network assets.
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Operate
AHEAD offers full Cisco management capabilities, from design to migration to XaaS
- AHEAD is experienced in delivering complex design and integration services and can extend day 2 support for all core Cisco Solutions via AHEAD’s 24x4x7 Managed Services offerings.
- Increase operational efficiency and scale network automation throughout your organization. AHEAD can help define, test, and validate multi-cloud network automation standards and create a custom roadmap for network automation in your Cisco platforms.
- Hatch’s global infrastructure lifecycle management capabilities offer full network visibility by location to aid in network management, network refresh planning, and rollouts.
GET AHEAD OF YOUR COMPETITION
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Advisory Board Membership
AHEAD has members on several Cisco Technical Advisory Boards, including Data Center, Networking, NetSec, AI, and Partner Lifecycle.
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Hatch for Lifecycle Management
Hatch is the single source of truth for IT asset management. Set up automated procurement workflows and real-time order tracking. Enhance your CMDB to keep track of end-of-life roadmaps on full tech stacks, components, and other items – and keep track of support entitlements to prevent auto-renewals on decommissioned assets. Plus, utilize reverse logistics services to facilitate the return or relocation of assets.
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Foundry
AHEAD’s Foundry™ offers in-house capabilities to handle large-scale Cisco deployments, including asset management, logistics, and professional and managed services for integrating Cisco solutions as part of larger transformation initiatives. Full rack integration offers plug-and-play deployments onsite, reducing network implementations from months to days.
CISCO CLIENT STORIES
Consumers Energy
Increasing Application Performance and Improving Customer Experience
One of the World's Oldest Banks
Powering a Revolutionary, Secure and Redundant Digital Asset Custody Platform
Rush University Medical Center
Multi-Partner Data Center Refresh
Louisiana Workers Compensation Corp.
Modernizing Aging Infrastructure to Increase Organizational Speed and Efficiency
AHEAD INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS FOR CISCO
AHEAD has extensive experience in key verticals such as healthcare, manufacturing, energy, retail, and finance, enabling us to implement customized Cisco solutions tailored to specific industry needs. We have the following Cisco Specializations:
- Advanced Enterprise Networks Architecture Specialization
- Networking Specialization
- Core Security Solution Specialization
- Extended Detection and Response Solution Specialization
- Secure Access Service Edge Solution Specialization
- Secure Networking Solution Specialization
- Secure Networking Management Solution Specialization
- Advanced Collaboration Architecture Specialization
- Hybrid Cloud Computing Solution Specialization
- Hybrid CloudNetworking Specialization
- Hybrid Cloud Software Solution Specialization
- Full-Stack Observability Solution Specialization
- Customer Experience Specialization
- Cisco Webex Contact Center Specialization
- Cisco Umbrella for MSSPs Specialization
- Cisco Unified Contact Center Specialization
- Environmental Sustainability Specialization
RESOURCES
Video
Easing the Headache of Network Lifecycle Management
AHEAD’s SVP of Engineered Solutions Justin Formella will walk through AHEAD’s Hatch platform, showing how you can harness the power of full supply chain visibility to automatically track the thousands of moving parts of a refresh project from procurement to disposition.
