As part of their ongoing program to educate the local SMB market, Cisco Philippines has partnered with several technology partners in promoting trends in IP-based communications. Sponsored seminars intensively discuss new technologies running on local area networks (LAN) and wide area networks (WAN).

Cisco has also recently introduced its Business Communication Solutions as its first complete communication systems targeted specifically at the SMB market. The package is currently priced between US$10,000 to $20,000 and includes voice, routing, switching, security, and wireless functions.

Visaya said that SMB clients could derive a 44 percent savings on its total infrastructure costs over a five-year deployment period.

Presently, about one-third of the total business of Cisco Philippines comes from SMB clients.

Last year, Cisco rolled out $12 billion in investments to strengthen its position in the global SMB sector, which is estimated to have a value of $440 billion in potential revenues.