CISCO

Transform Your Cisco Stack Into a Strategic Advantage

AI-powered services, proven outcomes, and hands-on Cisco expertise that accelerate deployments and de-risk transformation.

Why Criterion for Cisco?

Criterion helps Cisco customers and partners turn complex deployments into outcome-driven success stories. As a Cisco Premier Advisor — also recognized as a Cisco Digital Solutions Integrator (DSI) — and a global MINT delivery provider, we specialize in accelerating secure networking and cloud-native AI infrastructure with automation-first, validation-led services. Criterion is also a Cisco ecosystem co-innovation partner, working closely with Cisco BUs and field teams to shape forward-looking architectures. Our ReadyOps platform empowers your teams to move faster, adopt smarter, and operate with confidence.

Proven Capabilities:

Why Cisco Customers Choose Criterion

Proven Track Record

Cisco deployments across industries with zero-downtime rollouts and measurable business outcomes

Automation & Agentic Ops

Advanced automation workflows and AI agents deliver continuous policy enforcement, remediation, and drift detection

Cloud-Native & AI-Ready

Deep expertise in Kubernetes, Secure Workload, AI Infrastructure, Cisco AI Pods, and full-stack observability

Cross-Architecture Security & AI Use Cases

End-to-end validation and integration of SD-WAN, Secure Access, Data Center, and AI workloads across architectures

Cisco AI Platforms & Services

Deployments and enablement for Cisco Deep Network Model, AI Canvass, and AI Pods, tailored for enterprise-scale operations

Criterion ReadyOps

The Platform That Powers It All

Criterion ReadyOps is our enterprise-grade modular lab, test, and automation platform used to validate, accelerate, and automate every Cisco and non-Cisco deployment.

Cisco-Certified. Outcome-Focused.

Criterion is a premier Cisco MINT partner with globally available SKUs. Our mentored installs reduce delivery risk while enabling partner and customer success teams.

Secure Networking
MINT-SECURITY-CRI
Secure Firewall, Secure Access, Cisco Security Cloud, Multi-Cloud Defense
SD-Campus
MINT-DNAC-CRI
Catalyst Center, ISE, SD-Access, Enterprise Wireless, Cisco Spaces
SD-WAN
MINT-SDWAN-CRI
Catalyst SD-WAN, Meraki, Multi-Cloud OnRamp, SDCI, Config Groups, SD-Routing
Data Center
MINT-DCN-CRI
ACI, Nexus Dashboard (NDFC/NDO), Secure Workload
Compute & AI
MINT-COMPUTE-CRI
Cisco UCS, Intersight, AI Infrastructure, Kubernetes/OpenShift, AI Assistants, eBPF, Isovalent

How to Engage:

Request a Scoping Session

Engage through your Cisco account team or reach out directly to Criterion

Request a Scoping Session

Engage through your Cisco account team or reach out directly to Criterion

Request a Scoping Session

Engage through your Cisco account team or reach out directly to Criterion

Training & Enablement That Sticks

Criterion delivers outcome-driven, instructor-led training focused on Secure Networking, AI and AIOps, Cloud-Native AI, and Automation. Each engagement is delivered by experts through hands-on labs, real-world architectures, and guided environments.
AI & AIOps
Secure Networking
Cloud-Native AI & Applications
Automation & IaC

Engage an Advisor.

Plan Your Cisco Transformation with Confidence.

As a Cisco Premier Advisor, Digital Solutions Integrator (DSI), and Co-Innovation Partner, Criterion provides deep domain expertise to plan, validate, and automate complex Cisco deployments. But our capabilities go further — Criterion supports multi-vendor environments, integrating Cisco and non-Cisco architectures seamlessly across secure networking, cloud-native infrastructure, and AI-powered operations.

As a non-resell partner, our incentives are fully aligned with your success. We work solely in your interest to deliver outcomes that meet your business, operational, and transformation goals — not to push product. Whether your stack includes Cisco, VMware, Palo Alto, Splunk, AWS, Azure, or emerging open-source platforms, Criterion helps you drive adoption, validate architectures, and upskill your teams with hands-on confidence.

Ready to Deploy Smarter and Streamline Operations?

Use Criterion’s validation-first approach to reduce risk, accelerate transformation, and automate outcomes across your network and cloud environments.