Chinese technology giant Huawei has announced that revenue in 2014 for its Consumer Business Group (BG) grew. The technology and telecoms kit vendor said sales revenue for the consumer business group increased 30% year-on-year to $12.2bn, crossing the $10bn mark for the first time. The company said shipments grew byRead More…

Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Vodacom, South Africa’s largest mobile service provider, to build a gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) solution to expand Vodacom’s customer base enterprise and residential markets. The new converged network enables Vodacom to provide customers with ultra-broadband needed to access bandwidth-hungry services and applications such as online gaming and streaming video. According to Vodacom, it will deploy Alcatel-Lucent’s comprehensiveRead More…

Regional VAD TechAccess has signed an agreement with Extreme Networks for the Middle East. Under the deal, TechAccess will offer its channel partners in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Jordan the vendor’s networking products and solutions. In addition, the distributor will further enhance the vendor’s offeringsRead More…

SNB IT Distribution, a value-added distributor of data storage and backup, security surveillance, networking and IT security solutions, has been signed as the authorised distributor of Fluke Networks in Saudi Arabia. Under the accord, SNB will promote the vendor’s entire network testing equipment portfolio to channel partners across the Kingdom.Read More…

Cabling infrastructure, networking and electronic security solutions distributor Mayflex, has signed an agreement to distribute the ISONAS range of access control products. ISONAS delivers proven access control solutions that offer network-based, “Pure IP” to the door technology. Gary Harmer, director, Sales – Security at Mayflex said: “We are delighted toRead More…

Axis Communications, a provider of network video surveillance and software vendor Solink, have partnered to deliver a fully integrated contextual analytics solution. In terms of the partnership, Axis IP cameras will work seamlessly with the Solink platform and its banking and retail applications. This partnership will also benefit Axis customersRead More…

Networking vendor, Edimax Technology, signed a distribution agreement with Al Sharq Al Awsat to focus on developing an in-country channel partner program, leveraging the support extended by GCT, Edimax master distributor for Middle East, Africa and CIS countries.Read More…

TP-LINK Technologies Co Ltd, a global provider of SOHO and SMB networking products and solutions, has announced that it is supporting all its power retail partners during the month long Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) with impeccable promotions aimed at stimulating sales for the new wireless and networking products. According toRead More…

WAN optimisation solutions vendor Silver Peak has announced that Bob Bruce has joined the company as senior vice president of channel sales. In this role, Bruce will leverage his extensive networking expertise to drive increased awareness of Silver Peak’s partner programme and promote new revenue growth opportunities in WAN optimisationRead More…