Telia achieves Sweden Award from Cisco

TeliaSonera Sweden has received a Sweden Country Award during “The Cisco Partner Summit 2006” that has been held in San Diego, in the United States. This award recognises TeliaSonera Sweden as Security Partner of the Year, highlighting its outstanding performance over the past year.

Security Partner of the Year is awarded to the company that demonstrates exceptional expertise in the security field and Cisco Systems has this year chosen to give this award to TeliaSonera Sweden. Anders Glantz, Partner Manager for Cisco Systems Sweden, said, “With some of the best channel partners in the industry, Cisco Systems helps customers use technology to evolve their business to become smarter. Thanks to the Country Awards, we can recognise and reward our top performers. Cisco Systems strives to ensure our partners to become trusted advisors to customers, allowing organisations to communicate, collaborate and compete more effectively.” “As companies increase their IP communications, security aspects become more and more important. We’re very pleased that Cisco is recognising our security work by giving us this award,” says Gunilla Åberg, Marketing Manager for the Enterprise Segment at TeliaSonera Sweden. Cisco’s motivation for the “Security Partner of the Year” award: TeliaSonera Sweden has consistently led the way in providing customers with innovative, market-leading services, solutions and applications. TeliaSonera Sweden was chosen as Security Partner of the Year for enabling its clients to dramatically increase productivity, introduce new services and develop existing systems to vastly improve their security infrastructures. The award recognises these achievements and highlights Cisco Systems’ commitment to developing high-quality partnerships. To learn more about this award please visit the following website: http://www.cisco.com/global/EMEA/partnerawards/2006/