Al-Falak Electronic Equipment and Supplies Co., Saudi Arabia’s leading enterprise IT solutions integrators has joined the Business Partner Program of Alcatel to sell its enterprise IP networking systems to businesses throughout the Middle East, joining the over 1500 Alcatel partners worldwide. Al-Falak made the announcement during its participation in Gitex Dubai 2005.
For over 22 years, Al-Falak has delivered enterprise IT solutions through a network of offices and trained technical personnel throughout the Middle East and through a portfolio of business partnerships with leading solution and software providers, hardware and consumable manufacturers, business consultancy firms and implementation specialists.
“In Alcatel, Al-Falak found a partner that had both a comprehensive data networking portfolio, and in-country sales and service expertise necessary to help us expand our range of end-to-end solutions for customers,” said Basel Humaidah, General Manager of Al-Falak Systems Solutions & Consulting. “We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial partnership with Alcatel in the years to come.”
“Partnering with a IT leader like Al-Falak means Alcatel is better able to deliver the efficiency boosting benefits of its Internet Protocol (IP) communications solutions to businesses throughout the Gulf region,“ said Serge Dujardin, Vice President of Sales, Europe and South for Alcatel Enterprise activities, including Network Infrastructure activities for EMAI. “These are significant new partners for Alcatel and we are committed to growing our business and delivering complete solutions to customers throughout the Middle East with them.”
Alcatel offers a complete range of IP networking solutions comprised of high-capacity wired and wireless switching platforms that are used in core, wiring closet, and edge implementations. They are built from the ground up for IP communications and convergence, and feature unparalleled manageability due to a common operating system (Alcatel Operating System), superior availability and best of breed security.
About Alcatel
Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers and employees. Alcatel brings its leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks; applications and services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband world. With sales of EURO 12.3 billion and 56,000 employees in 2004, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit: http://www.alcatel.com
About Al-Falak Electronic Equipment & Supplies Company
Al-Falak Electronic Equipment & Supplies Company is one of the leading suppliers of network solutions, computer hardware, application software, manpower and IT consultancy services within the Middle East. Since its formation in 1981, the company has provided the information infrastructure to many prestigious organizations, which range from practically every government ministry and agency to universities in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman, as well as domestic and international private companies.
Al-Falak’s name is now practically synonymous with IT in the region. This 100% Saudi owned company has built upon its platform of existing partnerships with some of the most reputable companies in the IT industry. The majority of their staff is IT professionals, consultants, specialists or technicians. This combination helps to ensure that Al-Falak keeps fully abreast of industry standard platform changes to offer constantly updated systems integration, installation, programming, training and support. For further information, please visit www.alfalak.com.
