Westcon Group and Symbol Technologies Sign Global Distribution Agreement Enhancing Reseller Opportunities.Business Editors TARRYTOWN, N.Y. & HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2003 Specialty Distributor Will Carry Entire Symbol Product Line -- Ideal for the Growing Mobile Workforce -- Throughout Europe and North America Westcon Group, Inc., a global channel provider of networking technology products, and Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SBL SBL Society of Biblical Literature SBL Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE symbol) SBL Spamhaus Block List SBL Space-Based Laser SBL Securities Borrowing and Lending SBL Supreme Beings of Leisure (band) ), a global leader in enterprise mobility solutions, announced today that they have signed a global distribution agreement. The partnership allows Westcon Group to carry the Symbol Technologies product line for North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. and European resellers with the intent of expanding the relationship into the Asia Pacific region in the near future. The Symbol product families, built around the core technologies of rugged mobile computers, wireless local area networks and automatic data capture, are designed to increase real-time decision-making capabilities throughout the enterprise and the supply chain and are ideal for the growing mobile workforce. Alan Marc Smith Born on the southeast side of Chicago in 1950, Marc Kelly Smith is the founder of the Poetry Slam. He spent most of his young life as a construction worker, but has written poetry since he was 19. , president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Westcon Group, Inc., commented, "Our global agreement with Symbol Technologies will give our resellers in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and beyond unprecedented access to application specific devices, such as rugged handheld computers integrated with bar code data capture and local and wide area networking. Symbol's world-class product line will allow our resellers worldwide to build new solutions, driving new efficiencies for their end-user customers." Jan Burton Jan Burton is an English music producer best known for his work with ex-Fluke member Mike Tournier in their joint project, Syntax (band). He is currently engaged in musical activities in a group called Fatal. , vice president of worldwide channel sales, Symbol Technologies, said, "In an effort to increase our channel presence worldwide, we have chosen to partner with Westcon Group due to its global distribution presence, its proven success in bringing emerging technologies to the marketplace and its product support capabilities. Symbol and Westcon Group provide competitive advantage to any channel partner that wants to differentiate itself in the marketplace by providing access to application specific devices that leverage IP network extension, convergence and security, enabling enterprises to connect people and objects to information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. ." Bart Graf, director of Integration Partners, a reseller based in Cambridge, MA, added, "Our company's focus is providing network solutions to Fortune 1,000 companies. Westcon Group's new distribution agreement with Symbol is particularly exciting because it enables us to offer solutions that address the need for information at any point within the supply chain. This is important because it can enable real-time decision-making, increase accountability, reduce errors and cut costs. These factors obviously weigh heavily on our end-users' purchasing decisions." About Westcon Group Westcon Group, Inc. is a global channel provider of networking technology. Through its divisions, Westcon, Comstor and Voda One, the company offers products and services for convergence technology, remote access, Internet and e-business, virtual private networks, videoconferencing A real time video session between two or more users or between two or more locations. Although the first videoconferencing was done with traditional analog TV and satellites, inhouse room systems became popular in the early 1980s after Compression Labs pioneered digitized video systems , wireless connectivity and network security. Westcon Group Europe is located at Kobaltweg 58, 3542 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands; tel: +31 30 2489 411; fax: +31 30 2489 242. Westcon Group, Inc. is located at 520 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY, USA 10591-5167; tel: 914 829-7170; fax: 914 829-7137; www.westcongroup.com. About Symbol Technologies Symbol Technologies, Inc. delivers enterprise mobility solutions that enable anywhere, anytime data and voice communication designed to increase productivity, reduce costs and realize competitive advantage. Symbol systems and services integrate rugged mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings , advanced data capture, wireless networking See wireless network. and mobility software for the world's leading retailers, transportation and logistics companies and manufacturers as well as government agencies and providers of healthcare, hospitality and security. More information is available at www.symbol.com. |
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