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Cisco: Cisco Announces Top Global and Theater Channel Partner Award Winners

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^{Published in Science and Technology on Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 at 15:19 GMT, Last Modified on 2009-06-03 15:20:34 by Market Wire}  

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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