MARKET MOVEMENT
CommScope to acquire Cable Exchange
Eddie Edwards, CommScope’s President and
Chief Executive Officer.
CommScope, a leader in infrastructure
solutions for communications networks,
has agreed to acquire Cable Exchange, a
privately held, quick-turn supplier of fibre-
optic and copper assemblies for data, voice
and video communications.
Cable Exchange, headquartered in the
US, manufactures a variety of fibre-optic
and copper cables, trunks and related
products used in high-capacity datacentres
and other business enterprise applications.
This highly complementary acquisition
will deepen CommScope’s capabilities
in supporting the growing market for
SUSE forges new
training partnership
with Ingram Micro in
the Middle East
SUSE, a pioneer in open source software,
has announced a new training partnership
in the Middle East with Ingram Micro, a
technology solutions, mobility, cloud and
supply chain services company.
As part of the partnership, Ingram
Micro’s training centre in Dubai will offer
a set of 18 instructed-led SUSE training
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high-capacity, multi-tenant datacentres
and hyperscale datacentres operated by
the world’s largest technology and retail
companies. As more user-driven information
and commerce flows through networks,
operators are quickly deploying larger
and more complex datacentres to support
growth in traffic and transactions.
“We are pleased to further expand our
capabilities in the datacentre market with
Cable Exchange, a trusted and respected
provider of critical network infrastructure
with strong customer relationships,” said
CommScope President and Chief Executive
Officer, Eddie Edwards, adding that: “Further,
we believe the people, products and
performance of Cable Exchange are a great
match for CommScope. While the overall
business environment remains challenging,
we believe Cable Exchange’s leadership
in the attractive quick-turn industry will
complement our efforts in addressing this
important market opportunity.”
The leadership team and employees
of Cable Exchange will join CommScope
upon completion of the transaction. Cable
Exchange will operate as a stand-alone
business within CommScope’s Connectivity
Solutions segment.
“We are thrilled to partner with an industry
leader like CommScope,” said Cable Exchange
President Joey Hynes. “We look forward to
building upon our teams’ capabilities to serve
the growing datacentre market.”
modules designed to help organisations
transform to digital businesses. This training
will primarily focus on software defined
infrastructure solutions such as OpenStack
cloud environments, software-defined
storage and Enterprise Linux solutions
for SAP S/4HANA. Additional training will
cover the management of multi-vendor
Linux environments with SUSE Manager
to improve usability, provisioning, power
management and compliance quality
without compromising security.
Paul Abi-Chahine, Regional Director,
EMEA at SUSE, said: “Through this strategic
partnership with Ingram Micro, customers
Neustar adds five
VADs to EMEA channel
Neustar Inc, a trusted, neutral provider
of real-time information services, has
announced it has expanded its international
partner network across Europe and the
Middle East. The appointment of five new
VAD partners to its Cloud Security Partner
Programme will enable Neustar to address
the increased and continuously growing
demand for security services, particularly
DDoS mitigation and DNS solutions, in EMEA.
The new partners, including Spectrami
in the Middle East, join Neustar as the
company expands its EMEA DDoS mitigation
network capacity with the activation of new
nodes in Frankfurt, London and Amsterdam.
Further EMEA nodes are rolling out during
the second half of the year in Dubai and
Stockholm, creating an EMEA-wide ring of
in-region scrubbing mitigation centres.
The nodes in Frankfurt and Amsterdam
have increased Neustar’s EMEA network
capacity to more than 1 Tbps helping to
quadruple Neustar’s global DDoS defence
capacity to 4 Tbps and puts it on track to
have 10 Tbps online in the first quarter of
2018. This significantly increased capacity,
distributed across the regional nodes,
enables Neustar and its Cloud Security
Partners to offer security services with
added customer value as managing traffic at
in-region mitigation centres offsets latency
and restores network performance in a more
efficient way, with minimal service disruption.
can now benefit from a range of instructor-
led Enterprise open-source training,
delivered in-region, to help them transform
their businesses to digital while running it
more efficiently and cost effectively.”
Mohammad Sabry, Head of Services,
Gulf and Near East region at Ingram Micro
Training MEA, added: “As enterprises
in the region continue to ramp up their
investment in open source platforms, we
believe we have significant opportunity
to further expand our business by adding
comprehensive Linux and Open Source-
software training to our offerings in the
Middle East.”
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INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS