First Distribution Announces Its Southern Africa Distribution Partnership With Arista Networks
First Distribution Announces Its Southern Africa Distribution Partnership With Arista Networks. First Distribution, the leading pan-African distributor for IT, Datacentre and Networking Solutions, has announced its distribution partnership with Arista Networks for South Africa and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC).
“We are excited about taking on the distribution of the full range of Arista product offerings, because software is so often the cause of network issues and failure, the modern network has to be driven by high-quality software and it needs to provide end-to-end visibility in realtime, while allowing adjustments and corrections to be made.” Phil Wallis the General Manager: Networking Division at First Distribution said in a statement. He explains that customers today require a modern network that is predictable, as automated as possible, and adaptable for all the different connectivity requirements and workloads that need to run on a single network.
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for large datacentre, campus and routing environments. Its award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security. Arista solutions cover five main areas: datacentre switching; high-end routing; the campus and Wi-Fi environment; network monitoring fabric; and network security via network detection and response. It delivers solutions through its CloudVision platform and the advanced network operating system Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System).
“We are delighted to work with First Distribution to bring our solutions to the African market,” Ed Chapman, Vice President Business Development and Strategic Alliances at Arista Networks said in a statement. “First Distribution has a strong and growing customer base and local expertise that will allow us to jointly deliver greater value and cutting-edge network and security technology to the local market.”
First Distribution is the leading value-added distributor in Africa. Its offering includes a product portfolio of global leading Datacentre, Cloud, Networking and Security products and services. This embraces hybrid solutions with access to any combination of on premise, private cloud and public cloud end-to-end solutions from multiple vendors.
