OREANDA-NEWS. July 27, 2009. AZEL announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit regional award for regional level (Europe East) as New Partner of the Year and at the country (Azerbaijan) level as Enterprise Partner of the Year. Cisco unveiled the winners June 3 at its annual partner conference in Boston.

"I have the honor and privilege of recognizing AZEL as a Cisco Partner Summit regional award winner," said Wendy Bahr, senior vice president, U.S. and Canada channels at Cisco.  “The Cisco New Partner of the Year and Enterprise Partner of the Year recognizes AZEL’s performance and accomplishments as a Cisco channel partner in East Europe in 2008”.

Winning awards confirmed that AZEL has the right strategy aimed to development and strengthening of positions in the ICT segment of Azeri market.  AZEL has been cooperating  with Cisco Systems in 1998 and has recently become  a Cisco Premier Partner in Azerbaijan.

Igor Yakovenko, Chairman of Supervisory Board of AZEL said; "We are delighted to have won these prestigious awards, which recognize our ability to tackle a wide range of networking projects to a very high standard. AZEL highly appreciates recognition from one of its key partners and intends to deepen and enrich the mutually-beneficial cooperation with Cisco Systems."

Cisco Partner Summit awards are presented at three levels: regional, theater and global.