The agreement, according to Sam Lutfallah, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise's Regional Sales Director for Saudi Arabia & Bahrain, will offer greater support to the company's network of indirect resellers, enabling, empowering and enhancing their sales and technology capabilities and skills. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise hopes that the new agreement will extend its reach within the key vertical sectors including banking, healthcare, hospitality, education and infrastructure.
Yakob Kafina, GM for Saudi Arabia at FVC, said, "We are very pleased to be able to now offer Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise solutions to our partners and customers in Saudi Arabia. As demand for voice and data communications increase in the region, Alcatel-Lucent's complementary solutions fill a gap in our small, medium and enterprise (SME) business offering of end-to-end UC solutions."
About FVC
FVC is one of the leading VAD across the Middle East and North Africa. With new technologies and solutions driving the pace of change of businesses in the region, FVC has built a successful business by drawing on the best of global solutions. Uniquely in the region, its combination of full support for its channel partners and market-leading solutions from emerging technologies provides both FVC's partners and their customers with the full confidence to invest in integrated next-generation it and networking solutions. These include unified communications, enterprise threat management, cloud computing, network optimization and application delivery. For more information, visit www.fvc.com.
About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
The long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic industries and governments around the world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leader in mobile, fixed, IP and Optics technologies, and a pioneer in applications and services. Alcatel-Lucent includes Bell Labs, one of the world's foremost centres of research and innovation in communications technology.
With operations in more than 130 countries and one of the most experienced global services organizations in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The Company achieved revenues of Euro 16 billion in 2010 and is incorporated in France and headquartered in Paris.
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