Alphawest Services Pty Ltd (ASX:ALW), an Australian IT Services business, today announced that Cisco Systems Inc has awarded Alphawest the Gold Partner of the Year – Australia and New Zealand Award for 2004 during the Cisco Partner Summit 2005 event held in Vancouver, Canada last week.
The award is significant considering the other 17 Gold Partners across the Australia and New Zealand region and further demonstrates the strength of Alphawest's partnership with Cisco in Australia. Alphawest won the award based on a number of factors including client satisfaction, specialisation, skills and resources, and focus on continued support of advanced and leading technologies.
Alphawest has established itself as a leading IT Services partner in the convergence of voice and data networks. Alphawest has implemented many IP Telephony sites across Australia and places focus on delivering solutions utilising Cisco Systems technology.
Alphawest has extensive experience in designing, deploying and supporting IP network and telephony infrastructure, security and storage solutions to establish the best possible outcome for its clients. Alphawest’s relationship and proven methodology for offering Cisco products and services has been running for over 12 years.
"Alphawest is delighted to have been recognised for our level of delivery of value-added converged solutions with Cisco Systems. We have benefited greatly from having a consistent national approach in offering solutions to our clients and a strong strategic relationship with Cisco.” said Garry Henley, CEO, Alphawest.
"In addition to our solutions focus, our ongoing development of Alphawest's Smart Services is enabling customers to benefit from monitoring, management, maintenance and support services, particularly around Cisco's technologies. Through our Smart Services, our customers are able to easily and selectively source the level of service they require, leaving the service management to a trusted provider like Alphawest.”
