News Release

Cisco Recognizes Global and Theater Channel Partner Award Winners

13 Channel Partners Honored for Global Excellence, Three Partners for Being Top Theater Performers
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Apr 18, 2012

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – April 18, 2012 – This week Cisco unveiled its Partner Summit award winners, recognizing the performance of its top global and theater channel partners in 2012.

The 16 global honorees were selected from more than 280,000 Cisco channel partners worldwide for their outstanding performance in 2011. Thirteen were recognized for global excellence, and three for excellence in a specific geographic region.

The Cisco® Partner Summit global award winners are:

Award

Winning Company

Architectural Excellence: Borderless Networks

Net One Systems

Architectural Excellence: Collaboration

Worldwide Technologies

Architectural Excellence: Data Center

Forsythe

Cisco Capital Partner of the Year

Wipro Limited

Cloud Partner of the Year

ECCOM Network System Ltd

Commercial partner of the Year

Step Logic

Distributor of the Year

Ingram Micro

Enterprise Partner of the Year

Promon Logicalis

Learning Partner of the Year

Firefly Communications

Public Sector Partner of the Year

Bell Canada

Service Provider Partner of the Year

AT&T

Services Partner of the Year

IBM Canada

Solution Innovation Partner of the Year

Block Solutions

Americas Partner of the Year

CDW

Asia Pacific, Japan, and Greater China Partner of the Year

Dimension Data Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Russia Partner of the Year

Dimension Data South Aftica

"Cisco is privileged to work with the best channel partners in the IT industry," said Edison Peres, senior vice president, Worldwide Channels at Cisco. "It's an honor to recognize our top global and theater partners for 2011 this week at 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 regional channel executives.

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