Third Award in Four Years for Ireland’s leading Telecoms and Internet Service Provider
eircom has been named Ireland’s Cisco Gold Partner of the Year for 2010 for the third time in four years and was also awarded Services Partner of the Year at the recent Cisco Annual Partner Awards 2010.  

The Cisco Gold Partner of the Year award is the highest level of accreditation from Cisco Ireland and is given to the Irish Cisco Partner that has excelled in the Irish market. Cisco measures performance across accreditations, sales, solution sales with advanced technologies, customer satisfaction, engagement with Cisco and overall services portfolio. The Services Partner of the Year Award recognises eircom’s top ranking in an independent customer satisfaction survey. eircom will now go forward for consideration at the Cisco European and Global Partner Awards. 

eircom is Cisco’s longest established Gold Partner in Ireland and has consistently been at the forefront of Cisco's business development efforts, leading the way in terms of accreditation, new product introductions as well as the size and scale of successful project deployments.

Commenting on the awards, Ronan Kneafsey, Director Corporate Markets, eircom said, “Winning these prestigious awards substantiates eircom's position as the leading ICT solutions aggregator for corporate customers, in particular recognising our innovative approach to architecting, delivering and supporting complex ICT solutions for our customers. The awards are also a testament to the strength and depth of our design, engineering and service teams.”

Kim Majerus, General Manager Cisco Ireland added, “eircom being awarded the Gold Partner of the year for 09/10, is recognition of its commitment to Cisco.  A key step in our success to date has been the development of our joint and effective ‘Go To Market’ approach. This has resulted in significant success over the past year for both organisations in the Irish Market. We look forward to further developing our partnership by continuing to innovate and launch new and exciting incremental revenue opportunities in the years to come".

Previous Cisco awards won by eircom include:
Cisco Partner of the Year Ireland 2007, 2008
Cisco Managed Services Partner of the Year UK & Ireland 2008
Cisco Security Partner of the Year Europe 2007
Cisco Outstanding Customer Satisfaction Ireland 2007, 2008