SLIIT puts Sri Lanka on the World Map

Sri Lankan team from Sri Lanka Institute of Technology (SLIIT), became the 1st runner-up in the Asia Pacific NetRiders Skills Competition 2009 held on October 29 beating 15 other countries across Asia Pacific over Tele Presence and Webex.

Sri Lanka competed with countries like Australia, Hong Kong, China, India, Korea, New Zealand and Singapore to win this competition.

SLIIT team was selected to re-present Sri Lanka in this competition by winning all three positions at the National Cisco Competition held on September 19 at "Achievers 2009", 10th anniversary exhibition of SLIIT.

Forty teams comprising 120 students participated from the three Cisco networking academies in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan team was led by Thilina Senevirathna, and the other members being M.F. Faraj and Yoshan Weerasingha of SLIIT.

Prof. Sam Karunaratne, Chairman, SLIIT expressed his appreciation on the performance of SLIIT students in the field of networking.

Commenting on this achievement, Prof. Lalith Gamage, Managing Director, SLIIT said "This competition provided a competing platform at Asia Pacific level for networking students in Sri Lanka, which enables them to benechmark their skills.