OREANDA-NEWS. Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, today announced it has extended its distribution agreement with Cisco in EMEA to include Turkey.

The announcement builds on the existing relationship between Avnet and Cisco, which reached its five-year milestone in 2015, providing Avnet with the opportunity to extend its footprint and deliver Cisco’s portfolio of products to Turkey. In EMEA, Avnet already distributes Cisco products for the benefit of partners and their end-user customers in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, UK, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.

Hakki Eren, country manager for Avnet Technology Solutions, Turkey, comments, “This new partnership is an important one for Cisco and Avnet. It gives Cisco access to our portfolio of partners, driving its leading position in the data centre server market. Equally, it gives our partners access to innovative technologies to create next-generation data centres for their customers, particularly through the use of Cisco’s integrated infrastructure systems. Last year we celebrated Avnet and Cisco’s global five-year partnership, and we are now proud to extend this relationship to the Turkish market.

Cenk K?v?lc?m, general manager of Cisco Turkey, said, “ As we are in the middle of the digitization era, the way businesses expect to operate today places a huge challenge on the underlying network. It has to connect and enable every data or application-driven function for every user inside the business and beyond. At Cisco today, we are leading the industry in the next generation of data centre transformation.  With Avnet’s leading converged portfolio, its expertise working in Turkey and the experience we have together working across EMEA, we believe we will help businesses stay a step ahead in the race to innovate. We feel confident that Avnet’s deep technical experience and sophisticated integration capabilities will help Cisco and our channel partners accelerate our mutual success in the data centre market and capitalize on new revenue-generating opportunities.”

Avnet has received multiple awards for helping Cisco successfully grow its data centre business, including Cisco’s Global Distribution Partner of the Year in 2013 and 2014 and Cisco’s Data Centre Distributor of the Year in EMEA in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

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About Avnet, Inc. 
From components to cloud and design to disposal, Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) accelerates the success of customers who build, sell and use technology globally by providing them with a comprehensive portfolio of innovative products, services and solutions. Avnet is a Fortune 500 company with revenues of $27.9 billion for the fiscal year 2015.