Raya wins 2016 Cisco Architecture Partner for EMEAR emerging region

Raya Integration, part of Egypt’s Raya Holding Company, announced Tuesday that Cisco recognized Raya IT with Cisco Architectural Excellence Service Provider Architecture Partner of the Year for EMEAR region (Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia). The award was announced at Cisco Partner Summit 2016 held from February 29 – March 3, 2016 in San Diego, California.

Cisco Partner Summit Global Awards recognize the top leading partners across the geographical region that demonstrated successful business practices and serve as a model to the industry. In an effort to reward best partner in class, Cisco’s areas of evaluation include the overall partners’ performance with the Service Providers in the Telco market, business practices and architecture-led successes, strategic business outcome-focused programs and seizing new opportunities.All award recipients are selected by a group of Cisco Global Partner Organization and regional executives.

Cisco Partner Summit is the company’s premier event which hosts the leading Cisco partners around the globe to celebrate the joint success and to share its vision for future strategies.

“Raya is Cisco’s Gold Partner and probably the longest carrying this prestigious certification in Egypt. This reflects Raya’s commitment and appreciation of Cisco’s partnership. It is needless to say that to keep up with this status for such a longtime it requires dedication, hard-work, development and continuous innovation from Raya’s Team and Leadership. Furthermore, a huge amount of investment is put in human resources as well as Labs to maintain the specializations required and to cope with the world’s new fast-paced technology trends. Albeit being a giant in the ICT Sector, Raya proves once again its agility, versatility and capabilities in largely diversifying the business.” Ayman Elgohary – General Manager of CiscoEgypt – said.

In the last 3-years, Raya became one of Cisco’s few Telecom Service Provider (SP) Specialised companies in the region that delivers world class services to our SP customers. Today, Cisco is excited to award Raya a highly prestigious award – “Africa Service Provider Architecture Partner of the Year”. We are proud and honored to have Raya as a Strategic Partner to Cisco and we wish them continuous growth in the years to come!

Meanwhile, Hisham Abdel Rasoul CEO of Raya IT stated: “we are privileged to be recognized as the best Cisco Architectural Service Provider in the region of EMEAR-Emerging for the year. The award crowns the effort, focus and dedication of our team of experts which is the main driver for every success we recognized. We have a strong believe that continues learningshould go hand in hand with practical experience to deliver the highest quality of service to our customers.”

“Raya Integration heavily invests in its team and we clearly recognize the return on investment. Our team masters a wide range of Telco specific offering including the leading edge Cisco SP routing solutions, Cisco IP NGN, mobile Packet Switching Core solutions, LTE EPC, SP WiFi, Network Function Virtualization and Cisco small cells solutions.

I am convinced that the precise planning, patience and team work will always be the pillars to give the best in class service to our Service Provider customers in the Telco industry. Finally, I would say that suchrecognition from Cisco stimulates our eager to maintain the leading position in the market of IT for years to come.”

Raya IT, a subsidiary of Raya Holding, operates in the fields of systems integration and IT business solutions. Raya IT was established in 1998 with the vision to lead the IT and telecommunications industry, providing organizations with business solutions that allow them to simplify their business operations and increase their day-to-day productivity and operations management.

Raya IT does not only provide technologies, but offers full-fledged IT solutions tailored to meet the unique requirements of different businesses. With a solid track record, Raya IT has succeeded to deliver mega-scale projects for reputable companies in different sectors with a client-centric paradigm. . Raya IT solutions are dedicated to business clients from different industries, ranging from telecommunications, financial services, government, real estate, general business to the oil and gas industry.