Fast Lane Participates in Cisco Partner Summit 2026
Fast Lane Highlights Cisco 360, ThousandEyes and the Skills Needed for Integrated Cisco and Splunk Environments
RALEIGH, N.C. – October 29, 2026 – Fast Lane today announced its participation in Cisco Partner Summit 2026 in Vancouver, BC. Representatives from Fast Lane’s Americas and EMEA organizations attended the event, alongside Torsten Poels, Owner, CEO and Chairman of Fast Lane Global.
At Partner Summit, Cisco shared updates to the Cisco 360 Partner Program, new opportunities for partners to support customers across the technology lifecycle, and innovations designed to help organizations build, secure and operate AI-ready infrastructure. The announcements highlighted the growing importance of partner expertise as customers modernize their networks, strengthen security, and improve operational visibility.
For Fast Lane, the Summit reinforced a clear priority: organizations need skilled teams that can translate technology investments into operational results. As Cisco continues to bring together networking, security, observability and AI-driven operations, practical, role-based enablement will be critical to helping customers realize the value of their environment.
A key area of focus for Fast Lane is Cisco ThousandEyes and its integration with Splunk. By bringing together network and digital-experience visibility with Splunk’s data, security and observability capabilities, organizations can gain a more connected view of the performance and experience of their digital services. Fast Lane supports customers and partners as they build the skills to use these technologies together in real-world operational environments.
“The clearest signal from Vancouver is that customers understand what AI can do, but their teams have not had enough hands-on time deploying it,” said Mark Smith, Vice President of Sales, North America. “As Cisco and Splunk converge security, observability and networking into one platform, the organizations that win will be the ones whose engineers can operate it end to end. That is exactly where Fast Lane is focused: practical, lab-driven training that turns integrated Cisco and Splunk investments into real operational capability.”
The evolution of the Cisco 360 Partner Program further emphasizes the role of partners in guiding customers through this change. With new paths, incentives and tools intended to help partners create value across the customer lifecycle, Cisco is expanding the opportunity for partners to advise, implement, operate and support modern infrastructure. Fast Lane is positioned to help partners and customers build the technical capability required to meet that opportunity.
Fast Lane will continue to provide practical, lab-driven training, enablement and professional services across Cisco, ThousandEyes, Splunk, cloud, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and modern infrastructure.
About Fast Lane: As the only global partner of the three cloud hyperscalers—Microsoft, AWS and Google—and an Authorized Training Partner of more than 30 leading IT vendors, including Cisco and Splunk, Fast Lane delivers scalable qualification solutions and professional services. More than 4,000 Fast Lane professionals train and advise organizations in 90 countries.
