NWN Corporation Wins Healthcare Award at Cisco Partner Summit 2011

April 5, 2011

Waltham, MA, April 5, 2011 - NWN Corporation, a leading systems integration company, announced

today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit regional award – the 2010 Technology Excellence

in Healthcare Partner of the Year award. Cisco unveiled the winners March 1st at its annual channel

partner conference in New Orleans.

“Cisco works diligently with all of its channel partners, and it is an honor to announce NWN Corporation

as a Cisco Partner Summit national award recipient,” said Jim Sherriff, senior vice president, U.S. and

Canada Partner Organization at Cisco. “The 2010 Technology Excellence in Healthcare Partner of the

Year award presented to NWN recognizes its performance and expertise as a Cisco channel partner in

2010.”

NWN CEO Mont Phelps stated “Offering healthcare solutions has become an integral part of NWN’s

service to customers. We are thankful to Cisco for this recognition of our technology excellence in the

healthcare arena.”

Cisco Partner Summit awards are presented at three levels: regional, theater and global. Cisco Partner

Summit U.S. and Canada regional awards reflect a partner’s performance in a given geographic region

of the United States or Canada.

About NWN Corporation

NWN Corporation helps clients solve business problems through technology. The company provides

clients with a complete range of information system services and solutions. These include data center

and virtualization; network infrastructure; collaboration; client computing lifecycle management;

application development, security, IT staffing; and managed services.

NWN is a substantial corporation with more than 550 employees in 14 offices in the US and one in

China. The company has been recognized as one of the fastest growing IT solutions companies in the

country, ranking fifth in CRN magazine’s most recent annual survey. NWN is privately held and womanowned.

NWN’s clients include private and public sector organizations in almost every line of work. It provides

solutions to universities, PreK-12 districts and schools, financial institutions, manufacturers, hospitals,

retailers, professional service providers, and state and local government agencies.