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CBTS + Cisco 

AI-ready infrastructure, 
built on Cisco

CBTS + Cisco

AI-ready infrastructure, built on Cisco

Your network, your workforce, your data all needs to be ready for what AI demands. CBTS and Cisco deliver secure, scalable, and future-ready infrastructure so your organization can move faster, operate confidently, and grow without limits. 

A modern workforce powered by outdated tools

Your network, data center, and collaboration tools were built for a different era. AI workloads demand more compute, bandwidth, and throughput than most environments were designed to deliver, meanwhile IT teams are already stretched managing distributed workforces and a growing threat surface.

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Our partnership

We’re a Preferred Cisco partner

CBTS and Cisco bring three decades of experience in networking, security, and collaboration to the challenge of AI readiness. Together, we deliver the infrastructure, expertise, and operations that move organizations from AI proof of concept to production without the cost overruns, integration failures, or security gaps that derail many programs.

As a Cisco Preferred Partner with more than 300 certifications across Cloud and AI, Networking, Security, and Services, CBTS has the technical depth to design what’s right for your environment and managed services to keep it running around the clock.

Partnership at a glance

30 year Cisco partnership
300+ Cisco certifications
5 Consecutive Cisco awards
600+ Cisco Networking clients
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What we deliver 

Cloud and AI

CBTS and Cisco deliver an AI-ready data center foundation built on Cisco AI PODs — pre-validated, high-bandwidth environments engineered to handle the throughput, compute, and power demands of modern AI workloads — paired with expert CBTS IT Consulting and Managed Services. 

 Business outcomes:

  • CBTS manages complex data center operations; your team stays focused on business results.

  • A standardized, pod-based approach reduces implementation time and integration risk.

  • CBTS Security Operations Center monitors Cisco AI POD environments around the clock.

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Networking

CBTS delivers a fully managed Network as a Service built on Cisco Meraki with the ultra-low latency and throughput AI applications require at the edge. CBTS handles daily network operations so your IT team can focus on strategic work, not maintenance.

Our credentials? More than 600 clients, tens of thousands of locations, and 10 years of delivery. 

 Business outcomes:

  • Meraki’s cloud-native architecture provides the high-performance foundation AI applications demand.

  • Built-in network security addresses both traditional and AI-driven attack vectors.

  • CBTS handles day-to-day operations, so your people focus on higher-value work.

  • Hundreds of locations deployable in a short timeframe, at a single monthly cost.

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Collaboration

As a dual reseller and Managed Services provider of Cisco Webex, CBTS delivers a secure, AI-ready unified communications environment spanning Webex Calling, Contact Center, and the full collaboration suite. Choose on-premises, cloud, or hybrid with consumption-based pricing that adjusts as your workforce does.

 Business outcomes:

  • AI-enhanced tools with real-time transcription, intelligent call routing, noise suppression built in, not added on.

  • End-to-end encryption across calling, meetings, and messaging.

  • One platform, one managed environment, less overhead.

  • Consumption-based pricing means you pay only for what you use.

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Security

As a Cisco Preferred Partner, CBTS helps organizations identify and procure the right Cisco security products for their environment from the perimeter to the cloud to the endpoint. The guidance we provide ensures you're deploying the right tools for your risk profile, not just the most available ones. 

 Business outcomes:

  • Cisco's security portfolio delivers purpose-built visibility and detection across your network, cloud, and endpoints.

  • Cisco security products are designed to meet the compliance requirements of healthcare, financial services, government, and more.

How we work

Technology Resale 

CBTS provides dedicated Cisco technical expertise to ensure you select the right solutions for every project. Our team supports you through pre‑sales strategy, product education, and solution design — helping reduce risk and accelerate outcomes.

As a direct Cisco partner, CBTS delivers better pricing, priority support, and direct access to Cisco resources, ensuring maximum value from your technology investments. 

How we work

Technology Procurement

Technology Procurement

CBTS provides dedicated Cisco technical expertise to ensure you select the right solutions for every project. Our team supports you through pre‑sales strategy, product education, and solution design — helping reduce risk and accelerate outcomes.As a direct Cisco partner, CBTS delivers better pricing, priority support, and direct access to Cisco resources, ensuring maximum value from your technology investments

Professional and Managed Services

Professional and Managed Services

On the Professional Services side, CBTS provides pre-deployment assessments and architecture, implementation services, and integration consulting for the Cisco hardware and software stack. For Managed Services, CBTS is a Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Program (CMSP), enabling clients to offload ongoing monitoring, management, and optimization of their Cisco environments.

CX and Adoption Services

CX and Adoption Services

Our Customer Experience Managers and Adoption Specialists partner with you to define business needs, desired outcomes, and potential roadblocks. With deep knowledge of your organization, we deliver a customized approach that helps you fully realize the value of your technology — across hardware, Enterprise Agreements, and subscription licensing.

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 Complete AI lifecycle partnership

CBTS supports the full AI journey — strategy, advisory, deployment, scaling, and 24×7 managed operations. We meet you where you are and stay with you at every stage. 

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 Infrastructure mastery 

 The compute, network, and storage foundations AI demands aren’t theoretical for us. Three decades of enterprise infrastructure experience means we’ve already solved the problems most organizations are about to encounter. 

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 Security by design 

 We integrate AI-specific security capabilities from day one — eliminating the primary concern that keeps most organizations from deeper AI adoption. 

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 Battle-tested at enterprise scale 

 You shouldn’t be the test case. CBTS implements AI in our own operations before we bring it to clients — so what we deliver is proven in production, not piloted on your time and budget. 

 Awards & Recognition 

 Recognized five years in a row 

2025 Cisco U.S. Central Service Provider of the Year 
2024 Cisco Customer Experience Partner of the Year, Central USA 
2023 Cisco Software Partner of the Year
2022 Cisco Webex Managed Services Partner of the Year
2022 Cisco Managed Services Industry Innovation Partner of the Year 

Let’s build together.

Every strong foundation starts with a conversation. Tell us where you are, and we’ll help you figure out what to build next.