We couldn’t build high-quality knowledge transfer into every engagement without high-quality partners. We’re able to provide our clients with superior technical services and training in large part because our partners make them possible.

Our partners are pioneering developers of networking technology and training. They make it possible for us to be aware of, and trained upon, those groundbreaking technologies before they’re released to the public. That’s how our network engineers are able to provide our customers with the most innovative and reliable technologies available.

When the rubber hits the road, the only way for us to be able to offer high availability, high-performance networks is to have the kind of partners who create the technologies and training that allow us to build them.

To learn more about our partner relationships, and why they are beneficial to you, please click on any of the following links.

• Cisco Systems, Inc.
• IronPort Systems
• Element K LLC
• Netcordia, Inc.
• NetMasterClass, LLC

Cisco Sytems, Inc.

Our Cisco Specializations include:
• Express Foundation
• Advanced Security
• Advanced Wireless LAN
• Advanced Unified Communications

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco's IP networking solutions are the foundation of the Internet, as well as most corporate, education and government networks around the world. Cisco provides the broadest line of solutions for transporting data, voice and video within buildings, across campuses, and around the world.

Virtually all messages or transactions passing over the Internet are carried quickly and securely through Cisco equipment. Cisco solutions ensure that both public and private networks operate with maximum performance, security, and flexibility. Cisco solutions are also the basis for most large, complex networks used by corporations, public institutions and telecommunication companies, and are found in a growing number of medium-sized commercial enterprises.

Chesapeake NetCraftsmen consultants include some of the most experienced Cisco CCIEs in the country, many of whom were among the first to gain those credentials. The company’s technical staff averages at least 10 years experience in the networking industry and many have taught Cisco Certified training. Chesapeake NetCraftsmen is proud of its long-standing relationship, and its partner status, with Cisco Systems.

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IronPort Systems

IronPort® Systems is an independent business unit of Cisco. Operating as a part of Cisco's Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort email security, Web security and security management product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world's largest threat detection database, to address issues faced by corporations large and small - combining powerful performance with preventive and reactive security measures that are easy to deploy and manage.

IronPort Systems is focused on building comprehensive gateway security for enterprise customers. IronPort offers carrier-grade platforms combined with powerful tools that enable simple management of complex tasks. By providing security solutions deployed at the network gateway, IronPort enables a perimeter defense that supports and protects the infrastructure – not only from today's threats, but from those certain to evolve in the future.

By working together with IronPort Systems, Chesapeake NetCraftsmen provides clients with evaluation and integration services for gateway security.

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Element K LLC

Element K powers the knowledge that drives productivity. With its heritage as the professional education arm of Ziff-Davis, Element K understands that a better-prepared workforce can drive value for your enterprise. Element K’s best-in-class content and cutting-edge delivery systems help you create a rich learning environment that boosts your people's knowledge and your company's results. All delivered with a human touch.

Element K solutions are inventive, practical and proven through years of experience. From the company’s roots in computer training and courseware development to its pioneer role in the e-Learning revolution, Element K has developed a breadth of online and offline integrated learning solutions, and a choice of learning methods, proven to unlock the knowledge of individuals in your work force and drive value for your organization.

By working together with Element K, Chesapeake NetCraftsmen provides clients with a unique set of learning options to complement our networking solutions. Our goal is leave each project knowing that our clients can manage and maintain the network. Our partnership with Element K allows clients to take full advantage of that knowledge by taking it to the next level.

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Netcordia, Inc.

As a leading provider of network management-focused appliances, Netcordia brings considerable experience in network engineering, architecture, design and management. This experience has been distilled into the NetMRI ™ family of Network Management Appliances. The key advantage of Netcordia’s offerings is the embedded adaptive analysis engine.

Netcordia was founded with the vision of simplifying the difficult challenges of network and systems monitoring and management. Since its inception in July 2000, Netcordia has entered into strategic partnerships with industry-leading organizations such as Chesapeake NetCraftsmen.

Just as the NetMRI product family’s network appliances provide easier access to information on a systems level of the customer’s infrastructure, every Chesapeake NetCraftsmen consultant’s objective is to make certain that a client’s network is working better, faster and more reliably while the cost of ownership goes down.

Together, Netcordia and Chesapeake NetCraftsmen achieve our mutual goal by making it possible for your employees to be more productive and for your network to be more secure and ready for growth.

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