San Francisco, CA – July 9, 2007 – Unified TelData (UTDi) announced today that it has achieved the Advanced Unified Communications Specialization from Cisco®. This specialization recognizes UTDi for its knowledge and expertise in selling, designing, installing and supporting a comprehensive Cisco Unified Communications solution. 
"We are extremely proud of this achievement, which was a team effort from everyone at UTDI, starting with our pre-sales engineering, management, training and account sales teams, through our post-sales customer support," said UTDi CEO Lyhn Haller. "It was this dedication to service and increasing product knowledge via certification and ongoing investments in employee training that has won us some major accounts, not only in the Bay Area, but throughout the nation.”

“As a Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialized Partner, UTDi is among the industry’s elite in providing integrated, collaborative and adaptive unified communications solutions,” said Edison Peres, vice president and chief go to market officer for worldwide channels at Cisco.

The Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialization is designed to help partners—whether small to medium-sized businesses or enterprise-scale organizations—meet a wide range of customer needs. It focuses on unified communications market opportunities that require advanced product knowledge and the ability to deploy solutions over multiple sites and geographies. Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialized Partners are specialists in building communications solutions based on the industry-leading Cisco Unified Communications portfolio. These products include the Cisco Unified CallManager, Cisco Unity® Connection, Cisco Unity voice messaging and unified messaging, and Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unified Contact Center Express, Cisco Unified Videoconferencing and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace® Express.

The Cisco Channel Partner Program provides partners with training, validation and rewards for building the sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services skills necessary to deliver value-added integrated solutions to customers. Cisco specializations reflect the depth of technology skills at three levels: Foundation Express, Advanced and Master. At each succeeding level, a partner demonstrates greater sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services capabilities in specific technologies. Cisco channel partner certifications at the gold, silver, and premier levels reflect a breadth of skills across key technologies and a partner’s ability to deliver integrated networking solutions.

Unified TelData, Inc. (UTDI) provides Intelligent Solutions for world-class communications to a broad range of customers including AVMED, United Way, APCO Worldwide, BMW, the City and County of San Francisco, and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.  A full-service solutions provider with offices nationwide, UTDI offers its clients intelligently architected solutions as well as deployment, on-site training, technical support, financing options, and maintenance programs. 
For more information visit www.utdi.com.

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