AVI-SPL earns Cisco Powered Meeting Rooms Specialization. AVI-SPL has achieved the Cisco Powered Meeting Rooms Specialization, a designation recognizing its ability to design, deploy and manage Cisco meeting room environments at scale. The specialization demonstrates AVI-SPL's capabilities across the full meeting room service lifecycle, from solution design and deployment to ongoing monitoring, support and lifecycle management. It provides customers with confidence that their meeting room environments can be supported by a partner whose processes and capabilities have been independently validated by Cisco. Validating the full meeting room experience. Earning the specialization required AVI-SPL to complete a comprehensive Cisco audit covering key areas of meeting room delivery and managed services. The successful evaluation included pre-sales and solution design, onboarding and activation, monitoring and lifecycle management, incident and service request management, interoperability across platforms, room scheduling integration and documented service management practices. Achieving this new specialization demonstrates AVI-SPL's capability in technology integration, managed services and operational excellence to support its customers' collaboration needs in the modern workplace today and future proofing their investments throughout their journey. Supporting more reliable meeting room operations. Maintaining consistent performance can be complex. Technology needs to be monitored, updated and supported while minimizing disruption for the people relying on those spaces every day. The specialization reinforces its ability to help address those challenges through proactive monitoring, defined service processes, lifecycle management and ongoing support. The result is a more streamlined approach to meeting room operations that can help organizations reduce complexity, maintain a consistent user experience and get more value from their technology investments. A cisco-validated approach to managed services. The new designation adds value for AVI-SPL as a Cisco partner and further validates its Cisco expertise. for its customers. AVI-SPL is now recognized as Cisco Powered Meeting Rooms-specialized on Cisco's Partner Locator, giving organizations a public resource for verifying the designation. More broadly, the specialization reflects AVI-SPL's approach to managed services. It combines technology expertise with the processes, monitoring and support required to keep workplace environments operating effectively over time. Finally, aligns AVISPL Digital Workplace Experience strategy in the shift from workspace to the workplace and from service delivery to service management. You may also like. Oct 8, 2026 Aug 26, 2026

AVI-SPL CEO John Zettel was named the recipient of the Technology & Innovation Award at the inaugural Invest: Tampa Bay Awards, recognizing his leadership and contributions to technology and innovation in the Tampa Bay region. Since becoming CEO in 2005, John has helped guide AVI-SPL through growth and transformation as a global technology solutions provider. Under his leadership, the company has continued to advance how organizations use technology to create better experiences. That work spans industries and geographies, but Tampa Bay remains an important part of AVI-SPL's story. Zettel expanded on AVI-SPL's relationship with the region in a July interview with Invest: Tampa Bay. "We did not set out to be a global company, but Tampa Bay has been the right place for us as we became one," Zettel said. "It offers access to talent and has supported hiring across levels of the organization. It is also an attractive relocation destination, with quality of life and cost-of-living advantages." The recognition also reflects the work of the AVI-SPL team around the world. John's leadership has helped bring together the people, expertise and innovation needed to deliver its global impact for customers. Receiving this award at the first-ever Invest: Tampa Bay Awards is a meaningful recognition for John and for everyone at AVI-SPL who contributes to the company's progress. It is also an opportunity to celebrate the connection between AVI-SPL's global work and the Tampa Bay community AVI-SPL, Inc. is proud to call home.

AVI-SPL and Matternet partner on autonomous drone delivery for mission-critical service logistics. September 15, 2026 06:00 ET | Source: Matternet Inc. TAMPA, Fla. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - AVI-SPL, the world's leading provider of digital workplace technology solutions, today announced a partnership with Matternet, the world's only FAA Type-Certified drone delivery platform, to deploy drone logistics to speed service delivery across metropolitan markets. The partnership pairs AVI-SPL's service, integration, and supply chain network with Matternet's autonomous drone technology to deliver critical equipment and replacement parts to field technicians in minutes, reducing delays in congested urban and suburban areas. "At AVI-SPL, we are always looking for new ways to enhance the customer experience and support our technicians in the field," said John Murphy, COO at AVI-SPL. "This partnership is an important step toward reimagining how critical equipment moves through our service ecosystem. Autonomous drone delivery can improve responsiveness, reduce transportation delays, and create entirely new service capabilities for our customers." Expected use cases include: * Rapid delivery of critical parts to AVI-SPL installers and technicians working in congested downtown areas, avoiding ground-transportation delays. * Premium service offerings with faster response times and tighter service-level agreements (SLAs) for customers requiring the highest levels of support. * Broader integration across AVI-SPL's supply chain network to reduce road transportation and increase efficiency in dense metropolitan markets. "Drone delivery will transform time-critical B2B logistics," said Andreas Raptopoulos, Founder and CEO of Matternet. "Instead of waiting hours for a part, a technician can have it within minutes, which allows a job to be completed faster and at a lower cost. We're excited to partner with AVI-SPL to bring the value of ultra-fast autonomous delivery to this vertical." The collaboration reflects AVI-SPL's commitment to using advanced technology to solve real-world business challenges. For AVI-SPL's customers, the long-term vision is faster issue resolution and access to differentiated support offerings built on next-generation delivery. About AVI-SPL AVI-SPL is a digital enablement solutions provider who transforms how people and technology connect to elevate experiences, create new value, and enable organizations to thrive and grow. As the largest provider of collaboration technology solutions, including award-winning managed services, AVI-SPL's highly-trained team works hand in hand with organizations worldwide - including over 86% of Fortune 100 companies - to strategize, design, deploy, manage, and support AV and UC solutions that are simple to use, scalable, serviceable, and measurable to ensure business objectives are achieved. Visit AVISPL.com to learn more, or connect with AVI-SPL on LinkedIn. About Matternet Matternet is a leading developer of commercial drone delivery systems for urban and suburban environments. The company builds the Matternet M2 drone, the Matternet Station, and the Matternet Software Platform and operates its technology directly for customers or in partnership with logistics organizations such as UPS. Matternet has achieved many industry firsts, including being the first company authorized for commercial Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone delivery operations over cities in Switzerland, the first to launch routine revenue-generating drone delivery operations in the U.S., and the first to achieve standard Type Certification and Production Certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Matternet is partnered with UPS and Ameriflight for operations under Part 135. Matternet has operated commercially for more than a decade, beginning with humanitarian drone delivery missions in 2014, launching B2B healthcare operations in Europe in 2017 and the U.S. in 2019, and expanding into B2C drone delivery operations in Silicon Valley in 2024. To date, Matternet's technology has enabled more than 60,000 commercial flights across dense urban and suburban environments in the U.S. and Europe. 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