Cisco Announces Global and Top Theater Channel Partner Award Winners

Market Wire, April, 2008

Cisco Partner Summit -- To recognize the performance of its top global and theater channel partners in 2007, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) unveiled its Partner Summit global and top theater award winners today in Honolulu.

The 17 global honorees were selected from more than 3,000 Cisco channel partners worldwide for their outstanding performance in 2007. Eleven were recognized for global excellence, and six for excellence in a given geographic region.

The Cisco® Partner Summit global award winners are:

Award                                       Winning Company
Collaboration Partner of the Year           Ip Expert

Solution Innovation Partner of the Year     Dimension Data Australia

Enterprise Partner of the Year              Coleman Technologies

Services Partner of the Year                Hewlett-Packard

Technology Excellence Partner of the Year   Step Logic

Technology Excellence Partner of the Year   NEC

Technology Excellence Partner of the Year   NCS

New Partner of the Year                     Computer Word Processing System

Managed Services Partner of the Year        Telmex-Red Uno

SMB Partner of the Year                     Orange Business Services

Public Sector Partner of the Year           TELUS

Japan Partner of the Year                   Net One Systems

Emerging Markets Partner of the Year        Dimension Data

Asia Pacific Partner of the Year            DataCraft

U.S./Canada Partner of the Year             CDW Berbee

European Markets Partner of the Year        Logicalis

Multitheater Partner of the Year            Westcon Group

"As the economy changes, it continues to drive growth opportunities for Cisco partners across technologies and customer segments," said Keith Goodwin, senior vice president for worldwide channels at Cisco. "I have had the honor and privilege of recognizing our top global performers for 2007 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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