Accelerating A More Secure and Resilient Edge, SYNNEX Selects Ribbon's Software to Enhance Unified Communications including Microsoft Teams with Direct Routing

Founded in 1980, SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX) is an industry leader in IT distribution, providing comprehensive logistics, integration services, and technology solutions to customers and business partners with an emphasis on improving customer-engagement and CX.

Headquartered in Fremont, CA, and ranked #130 on the 2020 Fortune 200, the company distributes more than 30,000 technology products from more than 500 of the world’s leading and emerging manufacturers and earlier this month announced they have selected Ribbon Communications (Nasdaq: RBBN), to enhance their offerings as part of their Westcon-Comstor business in the Caribbean and Latin American markets (CALA).

Ribbon, a global provider of real-time communications software and network solutions to service providers, enterprises, and critical infrastructure sectors, has a longstanding relationship with SYNNEX and earlier this month announced the expansion of the relationship into CALA.

“We’re proud to work with Ribbon and leverage their market leadership with our resellers,” said Otavio Lazarini, SVP, Latin America from SYNNEX. “Ribbon’s Unified Communications and Collaboration-enabling Edge solutions and relationship with Microsoft will help us deliver additional value to our CALA partner base and grow market share.”

SYNNEX is reselling Ribbon’s Cloud and Edge portfolio of products, designed to meet the demanding needs of service providers and enterprises looking to deploy Unified Communications and Collaboration with a high degree of security and quality. In addition to its Microsoft-certified SBCs, the product portfolio includes analytics, media gateways, policy and routing capabilities, and an advanced application server platform.

“Working with SYNNEX in the CALA region will enable us to reach more customers with our unique value proposition,” said Julio Villafañe, Ribbon’s Vice President of Sales for the Caribbean and Latin America. “We know from our experience together in North America that SYNNEX brings tremendous technical expertise and deep relationships to the table. We’re delighted to work with them and augment the availability of our market-leading solutions into this important region.”

The Latin America and Caribbean (CALA) UCaaS market exhibited a strong, double-digit performance in 2019, according to Research and Markets, in terms of both users and revenue, a trend which continued in 2020, fueled by the COVID-19 crisis as millions were forced to work from home. Future growth is expected and forecast in the double-digit range and will be driven by a growing number of offerings in the market, an increasing acceptance of the cloud as a proven modality for technology consumption, and greater knowledge of UCaaS solutions (by both customers and the SPs).

Ribbon Connect for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing is a cloud-based service that optimizes and secures video conferencing, file sharing, and chat. Ribbon Connect adds dial tone to Teams to make and receive business phone calls, turning Teams into the office phone system, with a web-based portal that allows IT to add Teams Calling to user profiles. Ribbon Connect automatically makes configuration updates in Teams, with Session Border Controller services and integration into existing IP-PBX or Cloud UC services.

Juhi Fadia is an engineer, analyst, researcher and writer covering advanced and emerging technologies.

Edited by Maurice Nagle