Milestone Strengthens GTS’s Regional Managed Services Capabilities Alongside Three Cisco Powered Services
Cairo, Egypt – 2026 — GTS Holding, a regional technology solutions and systems integration company, is proud to announce that it has achieved Cisco Managed Services Practice Maturity – Intermediate Level across Egypt, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
This achievement represents an important milestone in the continued development of GTS’s managed services capabilities and reinforces the company’s commitment to delivering reliable, secure, scalable, and professionally managed technology services across the region.
The recognition comes alongside GTS’s achievement of three Cisco Powered Services: Cisco Powered Meraki Access, Cisco Powered Meraki Security & SD-WAN, and Cisco Powered Managed Firewall.
Together, these capabilities strengthen GTS’s ability to support organizations with managed networking, secure connectivity, SD-WAN, network access, and firewall services across increasingly complex IT environments.
What Cisco Managed Services Practice Maturity Means for GTS
The Cisco Managed Services Practice Maturity – Intermediate Level designation recognizes the continued development and maturity of GTS’s managed services practice.
Managed services have become increasingly important as organizations manage more distributed and complex technology environments. Businesses now depend on cloud applications, multiple locations, remote users, connected devices, and increasingly sophisticated security requirements.
Managing these environments effectively requires more than individual technology deployments. Organizations need structured services that provide ongoing management, visibility, monitoring, optimization, and technical support.
GTS’s Cisco Managed Services Practice Maturity achievement demonstrates its continued investment in the processes, capabilities, expertise, and service delivery frameworks required to support customers throughout the lifecycle of their technology environments.
By combining Cisco technologies with GTS’s regional technical expertise and managed services capabilities, customers can benefit from a more structured approach to managing their network and security infrastructure.
Three Cisco Powered Services Strengthen GTS’s Portfolio
As part of its expanding Cisco capabilities, GTS has achieved three Cisco Powered Services that address critical areas of modern enterprise networking and security.
These services include:
- Cisco Powered Meraki Access
- Cisco Powered Meraki Security & SD-WAN
- Cisco Powered Managed Firewall
The combination provides GTS with capabilities across network access, secure connectivity, SD-WAN, and managed firewall operations.
For customers, this means access to a broader portfolio of managed services designed to simplify IT operations while supporting secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure.
Cisco Powered Meraki Access for Simplified Network Management
Reliable network access is fundamental to modern business operations.
Cisco Powered Meraki Access strengthens GTS’s ability to help organizations deploy, manage, and optimize scalable network access environments.
Cisco Meraki’s cloud-managed architecture provides centralized visibility and simplified administration, enabling organizations to manage network infrastructure across multiple locations through a unified approach.
This is particularly valuable for organizations operating distributed environments where maintaining consistent connectivity and network visibility can become increasingly challenging.
Through its managed services capabilities, GTS helps customers simplify network operations while maintaining reliable connectivity across offices, branches, campuses, and other business locations.
Key capabilities include:
- Centralized network visibility
- Simplified network management
- Scalable network access
- Improved operational efficiency
- Support for distributed environments
- Greater control over network infrastructure
By combining Cisco Meraki technology with GTS’s managed services expertise, organizations can take a more streamlined approach to network operations while focusing their internal resources on strategic business priorities.
Cisco Powered Meraki Security & SD-WAN for Secure Connectivity
Modern organizations require networks capable of securely connecting users, applications, branches, and cloud environments.
Cisco Powered Meraki Security & SD-WAN expands GTS’s managed networking capabilities by combining secure connectivity, SD-WAN functionality, and centralized network management.
SD-WAN enables organizations to adopt a more flexible approach to connecting distributed locations and applications while gaining greater visibility into network performance and traffic.
For businesses with multiple branches, cloud applications, remote users, and distributed infrastructure, effective network management is essential to maintaining performance and security.
Through GTS’s managed services capabilities, customers can benefit from a structured approach to managing their Cisco Meraki environments while addressing evolving connectivity and security requirements.
Organizations can use these capabilities to:
- Improve network connectivity
- Strengthen network security
- Simplify distributed network management
- Increase network visibility
- Support cloud and hybrid environments
- Optimize connectivity across multiple locations
This combination of connectivity, security, and centralized management enables organizations to build more agile network environments that can adapt to changing business requirements.
Cisco Powered Managed Firewall for Stronger Network Security
As cyber threats continue to evolve, organizations require security controls that are consistently managed, monitored, and optimized.
Cisco Powered Managed Firewall strengthens GTS’s managed security services portfolio by helping organizations maintain effective firewall protection while reducing the operational burden associated with day-to-day firewall management.
A firewall is only one component of an effective network security strategy. Organizations also require appropriate configuration, policy management, monitoring, visibility, optimization, and ongoing technical support.
Through its Cisco Powered Managed Firewall capability, GTS helps customers manage their firewall environments through a structured managed services approach.
The service helps organizations:
- Strengthen network protection
- Improve security visibility
- Maintain consistent firewall policies
- Reduce operational complexity
- Support ongoing security management
- Improve the overall management of network security infrastructure
For organizations with complex IT environments, managed firewall services can provide additional operational support while enabling internal teams to focus on strategic technology and business initiatives.
A Regional Achievement Across Egypt, KSA and UAE
One of the most significant aspects of GTS’s Cisco Managed Services Practice Maturity – Intermediate Level achievement is its applicability across Egypt, KSA, and UAE.
The three markets are experiencing rapid growth in cloud adoption, digital services, distributed infrastructure, connected devices, and hybrid working environments.
These developments are creating increasing demand for managed technology services capable of supporting reliable connectivity, secure infrastructure, centralized management, and continuous operational performance.
GTS’s regional presence enables the company to combine local market knowledge with shared technical expertise and standardized service capabilities.
This allows organizations operating across multiple countries to work with a technology partner capable of supporting their infrastructure requirements across the region.
The achievement therefore represents more than the development of GTS’s managed services practice in an individual market. It demonstrates the company’s ability to build and maintain consistent service capabilities across its regional operations.
GTS and Cisco: Combining Global Technology with Regional Expertise
GTS’s managed services capabilities are strengthened through its strategic relationship with Cisco, a global technology leader in networking, cybersecurity, collaboration, and digital infrastructure.
Through this relationship, GTS combines Cisco’s technology portfolio with its own engineering expertise, professional services capabilities, and regional customer experience.
This approach allows organizations to benefit from globally recognized technologies while receiving localized implementation, management, optimization, and technical support.
GTS continues to develop its Cisco capabilities to address the changing requirements of modern enterprises, particularly as networking and security increasingly converge.
The company’s Cisco portfolio supports organizations across critical areas including enterprise networking, secure connectivity, cloud-managed infrastructure, SD-WAN, firewall security, and managed services.
Management Perspective
Commenting on the achievement, Eng. Ayman Al Sayed, Managing Director at GTS Holding, said:
“Achieving Cisco Managed Services Practice Maturity – Intermediate Level across Egypt, KSA, and UAE is an important milestone for GTS and reflects our continued investment in developing stronger managed services capabilities. Together with our three Cisco Powered Services, this achievement strengthens our ability to address the evolving connectivity, security, and infrastructure requirements of our customers. We remain committed to combining leading technology with our expertise and service capabilities to deliver meaningful value and support our customers’ digital transformation journeys.”
He added:
“Our objective is not simply to manage technology, but to help our customers operate their environments with greater confidence, visibility, security, and efficiency. The continued development of our Cisco managed services capabilities enables us to support that objective across the markets we serve.”
Building a Stronger Managed Services Practice
The achievement forms part of GTS’s broader strategy to expand its managed services portfolio and provide customers with greater support throughout the lifecycle of their technology environments.
As IT infrastructure becomes more distributed, organizations are increasingly looking for partners that can provide continuous technical expertise rather than one-time technology deployments.
Managed services can help organizations address this requirement by providing ongoing management, monitoring, optimization, and support.
GTS continues to invest in its people, processes, technical certifications, service methodologies, and strategic technology partnerships to strengthen its ability to deliver these services.
The company’s goal is to help customers simplify complex technology environments while maintaining the performance, security, and scalability required to support modern business operations.
Supporting Secure and Future-Ready Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is fundamentally changing how organizations operate.
Cloud applications, remote connectivity, branch expansion, hybrid infrastructure, and connected devices are creating new requirements for network performance and security.
GTS’s expanding Cisco managed services portfolio is designed to help organizations respond to these changes through solutions that bring together connectivity, security, visibility, and ongoing management.
The combination of Cisco Managed Services Practice Maturity – Intermediate Level with Cisco Powered Meraki Access, Cisco Powered Meraki Security & SD-WAN, and Cisco Powered Managed Firewall provides GTS with a stronger foundation for supporting organizations as they modernize their IT environments.
These capabilities enable GTS to help customers build technology environments that are more manageable, secure, scalable, and aligned with long-term business objectives.
Looking Ahead
Achieving Cisco Managed Services Practice Maturity – Intermediate Level across Egypt, KSA, and UAE marks another important milestone in GTS’s continued development as a regional technology solutions and managed services provider.
Combined with its three Cisco Powered Services, the achievement reinforces GTS’s commitment to developing advanced managed networking and security capabilities that address the evolving needs of modern enterprises.
GTS will continue investing in technical expertise, service delivery capabilities, strategic partnerships, and innovative technologies to help organizations across the region manage increasingly complex IT environments.
Through its collaboration with Cisco, GTS remains focused on delivering managed services that help organizations connect, secure, manage, and optimize their technology environments with greater confidence.
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About GTS Holding
Founded in 2018, GTS Holding is a regional technology solutions and systems integration company specializing in cybersecurity, enterprise networking, data centers, cloud infrastructure, managed services, and digital transformation.
With operations across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, GTS works with leading global technology providers to help organizations design, build, secure, manage, and optimize their technology environments.
Through engineering excellence, strategic technology partnerships, professional services, and customer-focused delivery, GTS Holding supports organizations across multiple industries in building secure, scalable, resilient, and future-ready digital infrastructures.
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About Cisco
Cisco is a global technology leader that helps organizations securely connect people, devices, applications, and systems. Its portfolio spans enterprise networking, cybersecurity, collaboration, cloud-managed networking, observability, and digital infrastructure.
Cisco technologies such as Cisco Meraki, SD-WAN, enterprise networking, and security solutions help organizations build connected and secure environments that support modern digital operations.
GTS’s Cisco Powered Services combine Cisco technology with GTS’s regional expertise and managed services capabilities to help organizations simplify infrastructure management and strengthen their network and security environments.
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