Ambleside has been working with Cisco for a while. I first started working with Cisco routers as part of the T3 NSFNET deployment in 1991. Since then they have been a strong partner through much of my work.
For several years we have been deploying robust infrastructure to home networks - much more so than our competition. As far as I know, we are the only advanced AV firm in the area who is Cisco Certified with Cisco Certified engineers on staff.
Like many of our product lines, Cisco has an extremely broad range of products and a committment to long-term support and life-cycle engineering. While low-end networking products can be treated as disposable, the configuration work on top of them is anything but disposable. It used to be that configurable, manageable products were only the domain of the very top-end. Now, Cisco has brought a great deal of their key product capabilities to the small-business product line.
Ambleside has preconfigured it's networks for remote access + monitoring, quality of service for various network devices - almost every device deployed today talks on the network and our framework provides a standard way to deploy audio + video streaming, system monitoring, control communication and many other services.