Cisco honors Fast Lane as outstanding EMEA Learning Partner for the third consecutive year

Fast Lane is Cisco EMEA Learning Partner of the Year 2025

San Diego, CA, November 2025 – Fast Lane has been named Learning Partner of the Year for EMEA at the Cisco Partner Summit 2025, held this week in San Diego, California. The Cisco Partner Awards recognize top-performing partners who demonstrate exceptional excellence and innovation in delivering solutions that help Cisco partners and customers succeed.

As the largest Cisco Learning Partner operating in 24 countries across the EMEA region, Fast Lane earned this recognition through exceptional training quality, outstanding learner feedback, and a consistently strong market presence across multiple delivery formats. For the third consecutive year, Fast Lane has ranked No. 1 in the number of students trained across EMEA, and in 2025, also achieved the highest year-over-year growth in students trained.

Over the years, Fast Lane has firmly established itself as the leading provider of Cisco and Splunk training across EMEA. Its continuous focus on the highest training standards, practical learning concepts, and certified top instructors has ensured its long-standing leadership in the IT education market. Fast Lane has also demonstrated measurable success in developing competencies for AI-ready data centers, future-proofed workplaces, and digital resilience among Cisco partners and end customers alike.

Fast Lane maintains a close collaboration with Cisco and Cisco Gold Partners in all regions and countries to drive rapid employee skilling as part of the new Cisco 360 Partner Program. Through these strategic cooperations, Fast Lane plays a key role in helping partners efficiently and sustainably meet Cisco’s C360 competency and certification requirements—strengthening the overall partner ecosystem.

Torsten Poels, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Fast Lane Group, commented: We are deeply honored to once again be recognized as Cisco’s top Platinum Learning Partner in the EMEA region. Winning this prestigious award for the third consecutive year is a strong statement to the unwavering commitment and excellence demonstrated by our Fast Lane Group members across all countries. It reflects the strength of our collaboration with Cisco and the partner ecosystem in all countries. We look forward to further deepening our successful and strategic partnership with Cisco in the years ahead.


From left to right: Celine Pichinot (Channel Success Manager, Fast Lane Germany), Ana Mojica (Learning Partner Channel Manager, Cisco), Torsten Poels (CEO & Chairman of the Board, Fast Lane) and Herman Goedman (Managing Director, Fast Lane Benelux) at the Cisco Partner Summit 2025 in San Diego


As a Cisco Platinum Learning Partner, Fast Lane offers the latest training portfolio on all Cisco technologies worldwide: www.flane.de/cisco

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About Fast Lane

Fast Lane is a global, award-winning specialist in technology and business training as well as consulting services for digital transformation. As the only global partner of the three cloud hyperscalers- Microsoft, AWS and Google- and partner of 30 other leading IT vendors including Cisco, NVIDIA, appliedAI, VMware, NetApp, Palo Alto Networks, HPE Aruba, Red Hat, Fortinet, Barracuda, Gigamon and others, Fast Lane offers qualification solutions and professional services that can be scaled as needed. More than 4,000 experienced Fast Lane professionals train and advise customers in organizations of all sizes in 90 countries worldwide in the areas of cloud, artificial intelligence, cyber security, software development, wireless and mobility, modern workplace, as well as management and leadership skills, IT and project management.

Additional information:

Fast Lane Institute for Knowledge Transfer GmbH

Gasstrasse 4a, D-22761 Hamburg

Contact:
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bjansen@flane.de
Tel. +49 40 253346-10
www.flane.de