Fast Lane US Wins Cisco Learning Partner Channel Award of Excellence in Relevance

Morrisville, N.C., May 19, 2011 – Fast Lane (www.fastlaneus.com), a leading worldwide provider of advanced IT training, has won the Cisco Learning Partner Channel Award of Excellence in Relevance announced by Cisco at their Americas Learning Partner Summit held May 3-4 in San Jose, California.

The Learning Partner Relevance Award recognizes the top organization that:

• has established multi-dimensional relationships across various training departments and business units;
• is driving value, especially in advanced and emerging technologies, to help move the availability of education as close as possible to the launch of new products and/or features and solution updates;
• has leveraged their expertise in various areas of technology to become a major content development partner; and
• is consistently creative in finding ways to transition from content development to execution, helping Cisco sell more solutions and architectures.

"I am very pleased to name Fast Lane as the Cisco Learning Partner Award winner in the area of Relevance," said Andres Sintes, Global Director, Worldwide Learning Partner Channel at Cisco. “This award recognizes Fast Lane’s outstanding support of Cisco’s key learning initiatives and their ability to successfully deliver top quality and consistent results.”

“We are proud of our affiliation with Cisco and consider it an honor to be selected by Cisco for this prestigious award” said Chuck Terrien, President, Fast Lane Americas. “I extend congratulations to the entire Fast Lane team that contributed to our successes in support of our Cisco partnership.”

Fast Lane works directly with Cisco to develop and deliver the courses that prepare technical professionals to support and implement Cisco’s Architectures and Solutions. Fast Lane’s Cisco-certified instructors have real-world, hands-on experience in today's challenging business environments, and use this knowledge to create a collaborative learning experience that goes beyond course materials and labs.

Fast Lane’s Cisco course offerings include courses that support Cisco Architectures for Borderless Networks, Collaboration and Datacenter Architectures and Cisco Career Certification courses. To find out more about Fast Lane and its full complement of course offerings, visit www.fastlaneus.com or call 1-855-77 TRAIN.

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