SYNNEX Corporation and D-Link Establish Distribution Partnership To Offer End-to-End Networking Solutions

 

SYNNEX to Distribute D-Link’s Premier Products to Mid-Market and SMB Customer Base

FREMONT and FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., March 13, 2006—SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), a global IT supply chain services company and D-Link Systems, Inc.®, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers and business, today announced a strategic distribution partnership to offer premier networking products.

Under the terms of the agreement, SYNNEX will distribute D-Link’s products from four main categories: switches, wireless, broadband and the digital home, expanding the reach to new customers in North America for D-Link. SYNNEX, with its strong attention to product knowledge and ability to add incremental sales, will act as an extension of the D-Link sales force by adding new customer relationships and generating demand for the D-Link product line.

“D-Link is a premier provider of networking products and represents a natural fit to our networking solutions strategy”, said John Paget, President of North America and COO at SYNNEX Corporation. “With this new partnership, SYNNEX can offer a broader range of high-performing networking products to our mid-market and SMB enterprise customers.”

“D-Link’s award-winning end-to-end networking product line provides our channel customers with a highly competitive, high return on investment product solution that is easily and readily available today through SYNNEX,” said Keith Karlsen, Executive Vice President of D-Link Systems, Inc. “By teaming with SYNNEX, we expect to improve our mid-market and SMB product sales while expanding our technical and customer support by leveraging SYNNEX’ existing relationships.”

Value Added Resellers (VARs) and system integrators will gain access to the D-Link product line, and will be able to take advantage of the one-stop shopping experience that SYNNEX can offer, Karlsen added.