TD SYNNEX signs agreement with Ciena for high performance optical networking

Team already in place and ready to enable and support partners in delivering blisteringly-fast switches and routers for high-capacity networks.

TD SYNNEX has been appointed as a distributor in the UK and Ireland for Ciena, the leading player in high-speed optical networking, routing systems and automation, and has put together a specialist team to support partners in taking the vendor’s solutions to market.

The TD SYNNEX team is ready to support partners with on-boarding and extended technical and professional services along with the positioning of Ciena solutions with end user customers. In addition, partners will benefit from the value added services and extensive tools and resources that TD SYNNEX provides, including pre-sales technical consultancy, training and knowledge development and enablement and business development programmes.

Simon Bennett, managing director, Advanced Solutions, UK and Ireland, TD SYNNEX, stated: “Today’s data-intensive and AI-driven solutions are placing increasing demands on hybrid network infrastructures. TD SYNNEX is ready to support partners in addressing the tremendous opportunity that this agreement brings for partners to provide the exceptional high performance that Ciena’s networking solutions deliver.”

Ciena's routers and switches are renowned for building adaptive networks that meet the high-speed connectivity and growing bandwidth needs of AI, data centers, cloud infrastructure, internet services, and utility and carrier networks. The company’s Navigator Network Control Suite uses AI-driven analytics and automation for comprehensive lifecycle network operatio

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