PacStar Wins Cisco Solution Innovation Partner of the Year Award at Cisco Partner Summit

PORTLAND, Ore., April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- PacStar(TM) announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit Theatre award for Solution Innovation Partner of the Year in the United States and Canada. Cisco unveiled the winners April 9, 2008 at its Partner Summit in Honolulu.

"I had the honor and privilege of recognizing PacStar as a Cisco Partner Summit regional award winner," said Wendy Bahr, vice president of US and Canada channels at Cisco. "The Solution Innovation Partner of the Year award recognizes PacStar's performance and success as a Cisco channel partner in the United States and Canada in 2007."

Receiving the awards on behalf of PacStar, company CEO Robert Frisbee commented, "Being named as an innovative partner by Cisco is an honor. We have worked hard to develop products that our men and women in the military can rely on, underscored by the PacStar 6000 series of unified communications products co-developed with Cisco. The joint solutions offer warfighters sophisticated and reliable IP communications that are simple to use, deploy and maintain."

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 PacStar

Pacific Star Communications (PacStar(TM)) is a leading technology-based systems integrator providing total communications solutions that empower military, federal, state and local governments, and emergency responders with reliable, interoperable communications capabilities. Our patent-pending IQ-Core(TM) software and hardware technology and integration/installation services provide secure, command control and communications systems for any environment. In addition, PacStar provides a full range of communications solutions to commercial businesses, as well as telecommunications service providers.

For more information, please visit www.pacstar.com or call 888-872-1512.

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Press contact:

Andrew Miller

Zeno Group on behalf of PacStar

Phone: 707.386.1193

Email: andrew.miller@zenogroup.com