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Cisco Asia Pacific NetRiders 2009
The winning team from Malaysia
Team Cambodia and Team Thailand in the TelePresence room in Cisco’s Bangkok office
APAC NetRiders
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia November 26, 2009
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 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 TelePresenceTM and Cisco WebExTM, 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.
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