OREANDA-NEWS.  September 18, 2012. The biggest Russian IT distributor MERLION and Alcatel-Lucent RT, the joined venture formed by Alcatel-Lucent and Russian Technologies State Corporation, signed a distribution agreement. The agreement grants MERLION the “Authorized Distributor Alcatel-Lucent RT” status, is in effect in the RF territory and covers all products offered by Alcatel-Lucent RT, reported the press-centre of MERLION. 

On receiving the new status the distributor will offer its partners a wide range of telecommunication equipment included into Alcatel-Lucent RT’s products portfolio, i.e. routers and switches for building up operator class networks and large corporate networks (IP/MPLS networks), switches and routers for LANs and data processing centers, wireless solutions, firmware solutions assuring information security as well as industrial private-branch exchanges and communication platforms based on IP-telephony (IPBEs and IP-IPBEs), including the whole range of solutions based on them, such as contact centers, solutions for creating united communication systems, etc.

“MERLION is one of the biggest players in the IT market and network equipment distribution market in Russia and the CIS, the Company has one of the widest partnership bases and offers beneficial financial conditions for its partners. Besides, MERLION has a strong technical expertise, upgrades the technical knowledge level of Client’s specialists by efforts of the Competencies Center, renders professional services to their partners in their technical centers. We are convinced that our cooperation will be successful,” – notes the advantages of cooperation with MERLION Serge Dujardy, Alcatel-Lucent RT’s General Manager.

Alcatel-Lucent is the leader in the sphere of mobile and fixed-line telephonies, IP, optical technologies as well as the pioneer in the sphere of applications and services; it has the most experienced global support team and one of the biggest research and technological subunits in the telecommunication industry. Signing an agreement with Alcatel-Lucent RT is considered by MERLION as an important step. “The development of VAD-distribution and, particularly, Enterprise trend, is one of our strategic missions for the next few years. The high sale growth rates of these solutions (about 60% in 2011) and the increased segment of network and telecommunication equipment, servers and data storage systems in our sales – these are the things, which give us all reasons to consider our cooperation with Alcatel-Lucent RT highly promising”, - comments Mr. Anton Lukyanov, Director of MERLION’s IT Products Procurement department.

Alcatel-Lucent RT’s products can be used already by MERLION’s partners.