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Cisco Announces Top Global and Theater Channel Partner Award Winners
14 Channel Partners Honored for Excellence Worldwide, 5 Partners for Being Top Theater Performers
SAN FRANCISCO (Cisco Partner Summit), April 29, 2010 - To recognize the performance of its top global and theater channel partners in 2009, Cisco unveiled its Partner Summit award winners today in San Francisco.
The 19 global honorees were selected from more than 60,000 Cisco channel partners worldwide for their outstanding performance in 2009. Fourteen were recognized for global excellence, and five for excellence in a specific geographic region.
The Cisco® Partner Summit global award winners are:
| Award | Winning Company |
| Collaboration Partner of the Year | ECCOM |
| Solution Innovation Partner of the Year | Servion Global Solutions |
| Enterprise Partner of the Year | Dimension Data |
| Green Partner of the Year | Atea Danmark |
| Services Partner of the Year | INX |
| Technology Excellence Partner of the Year | World Wide Technology |
| Technology Excellence Partner of the Year | ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corp. (CTC) |
| Technology Excellence Partner of the Year | PromonLogicalis |
| Service Provider Partner of the Year | Deutsche Telekom |
| Small Business Partner of the Year | Fujisoft Technology |
| Public Sector Partner of the Year | NCS |
| Commercial/Mid-market Partner of the Year | Presidio Networked Solutions, Coleman Technologies |
| Global Learning Partner of the Year | NIIT |
| Global Distribution Partner of the Year | D&H Distributing |
| Japan Partner of the Year | Net One Systems Co. |
| Emerging Markets Partner of the Year | Magyar Telekom |
| Asia Pacific Partner of the Year | Alphawest and Optus Business |
| U.S. and Canada Partner of the Year | CDW |
| European Markets Partner of the Year | TD Azlan |
"Cisco is dedicated to helping our partners make the bold moves to transition from navigating in the economic downturn to accelerating growth in the upturn," said Keith Goodwin, senior vice president for Cisco's worldwide partner organization. "It has been an honor and privilege to recognize our top 2009 global performers 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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