Malaysian Students Rule Cisco's Asia Pacific Skills Competition

(live-PR.com) - KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/26/09 -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)



Overview:



A team of three students from the Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, in
Malaysia, beat 15 other teams from around the Asia Pacific region to top
Cisco® Asia Pacific NetRiders 2009, an annual skills competition
organized by the Cisco Networking Academy®, a comprehensive e-learning : http://www.cisco.com/web/about/citizenship/socio-economic/e-learning.html program that enables students to develop
valuable information and communications technology (ICT) skills for
increased access to opportunities in the global economy.



Highlights / Key Facts:

• This was the second year that Asia Pacific NetRiders was organized over
  Cisco TelePresence(TM) : http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns669/networking_solutions_solution_segment_home.html and Cisco WebEx : http://www.webex.com/overview/web-conferencing.html (TM),
  which provided a powerful collaborative platform for the students to test
  their skills.


• The winning team from Malaysia, Soon Sing Tee, Chamal Sapumohotti,
  Ravan Nagalingam, won an all-expenses-paid trip to the United States.


• Team Malaysia, comprising different participants, placed second to a
  team from China in last year's competition.


• This year's competition featured 16 countries, each sending the winners
  of its national NetRiders competition. More than 4,000 students competed
  for their respective national titles.


• The competition involves two levels of testing. The first level is a
  multiple-choice online examination, and the second level involves an online
  test using Packet Tracer 5.2 (network configuration through computer
  simulation).


• The competition is open to students from more than 1,390 Networking
  Academy venues across the region.


• In second and third place, respectively, were the teams from the Sri
  Lankan Institute of Information Technology and the American International
  University - Bangladesh, demonstrating the incredible diversity of talent
  in the Cisco Networking Academy.


• Participating in their second Asia Pacific NetRiders, Team Cambodia
  travelled to Bangkok, Thailand, in order to compete over the Cisco
  TelePresence platform. Their trip was sponsored by Cisco Thailand and
  Cisco's channel partners in Cambodia: Trust Gobal Service, CAMPURA and
  CISWORK.

Tags / Keywords:



Cisco, Networking Academy, Skills, NetRiders, Asia Pacific, Malaysia,
TelePresence, WebEx



Links / URLs:

• Cisco Networking Academy Program
  http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/netacad/index.html : http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/netacad/index.html


• Cisco TelePresence
  http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns669/networking_solutions_solution_
  segment_home.html : http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns669/networking_solutions_solution_segment_home.html
  


• Cisco WebEx
  http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10352/index.html : http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10352/index.html


• Cisco Asia Pacific NetRiders 2009 Video
  http://www.cisco.com/asiapac/academy/files/NetridersFinal_06_11_2009_2.wmv : http://www.cisco.com/asiapac/academy/files/NetridersFinal_06_11_2009_2.wmv
  

Quotes:

• Soon Sing Tee, Chamal Sapumohotti, Ravan Nagalingam, Team Malaysia
  "We felt that definitely having completed Cisco CCNA certification helped
  us in our preparation for the Asia Pacific NetRiders competition. Our
  instructor, Mr. KC Khor from Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, also spent
  the last two months preparing us intensively for the competition, so this
  win is as much for him as for us. Thank you, Cisco, for a great experience
  over TelePresence. It was really enjoyable competing against so many
  countries, and we are extremely excited about the study trip to the United
  States!"


• Sandy Walsh, head of Education and Corporate and Social Responsibility
  for Cisco in Asia Pacific
  "We have held this skills competition at both the national and regional
  levels for several years now, and every year we are amazed to see the
  talent emerging from countries that you would expect to be disadvantaged
  from a broadband and ICT point of view. The teams from Sri Lanka and
  Bangladesh did incredibly well to finish second and third, and this
  reinforces our feeling that education and the Internet are truly two of the
  great equalizers in life."


• Anne Abraham, managing director, Cisco Malaysia
  "I am so proud of the team from the Multimedia University. Last year, the
  team from Malaysia came in second, but this year, we have gone one better.
  We have placed an intense focus over the past few years in developing the
  Cisco Networking Academy in the country, working closely with the
  government, the schools and the community to ensure that Malaysia has the
  talent pool necessary for a knowledge economy. This win shows that we have
  made great progress."

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