Cisco Announces Top Global and Theater Channel Partner Award Winners

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - June 3, 2009) - Cisco Partner Summit -- To recognize the performance of its top global and theater channel partners in 2008, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) unveiled its Partner Summit award winners today in Boston.

The 19 global honorees were selected from more than 60,000 Cisco channel partners worldwide for their outstanding performance in 2008. Thirteen were recognized for global excellence, and six for excellence in a specific geographic region.

The Cisco® Partner Summit global award winners are:

Award                                       Winning Company

Collaboration Partner of the Year           ECCOM Network System Co. Ltd
Solution Innovation Partner of the Year     Saga d.o.o.
Enterprise Partner of the Year              Deutsche Telekom AG
Services Partner of the Year                Datametrix AS
Technology Excellence Partner of the Year   INX Inc.
Technology Excellence Partner of the Year   Dimension Data
Technology Excellence Partner of the Year   Desca
Technology Excellence Partner of the Year   Fujitsu Ltd.
Service Provider Partner of the Year        Alphawest and Optus Business
SMB Partner of the Year                     CDW Corporation
Public Sector Partner of the Year           NextiraOne Europe
Commercial/Mid-market Partner of the Year   LWCOM
Global Learning Partner of the Year         Global Knowledge Training LLC
Japan Partner of the Year                   Net One Systems Co., Ltd.
Emerging Markets Partner of the Year        PromonLogicalis Latin America
Asia Pacific Partner of the Year            Datacraft Asia
U.S./Canada Partner of the Year             World Wide Technology, Inc.
European Markets Partner of the Year        Dimension Data
Multi-theater Partner of the Year           EMC

"As the economy creates new challenges, Cisco and our channel partners have worked diligently and successfully to explore new avenues for partnership and collaboration across the globe," said Keith Goodwin, senior vice president for worldwide channels at Cisco. "It has been an honor and privilege to recognize our top global performers for 2008 this week at the Cisco Partner Summit."

The Cisco Partner Summit global and theater award winners are nominated by their Cisco theater sales teams. Nominations are reviewed by a group of Cisco worldwide and theater channel executives.

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