Local wireless broadband supplier Alvarion South Africa recently appointed Tony Rodrigues as the organisation's new Enterprise Sales Manager for the southern African region.
Rodrigues, who was previously the pre-sales manager for the region, will now be responsible for managing the distributors and system integrator partners in the region. “My role is changing from taking care of the technical side, to dealing with the enterprise sales in the region, including pricing, marketing and managing the client accounts,” explains Rodrigues.
Alvarion offers enterprise network operators carrier-class 4G wireless broadband solutions to deliver voice, video and data applications, reliably and securely. These products include the BreezeMAX Extreme; BreezeMAX VL, BreezeNET B10-300 range as well as the BreezeMAX Wi^2.
“The enterprise market in southern Africa is currently experiencing dramatic growth with many new offerings and market requirements,” says Rodrigues. “New areas such as digital cities, smart grid applications and video surveillance are all growing markets in Africa at the moment. Alvarion South Africa is focused on leveraging the opportunities within this new segment and helping our customers to grow their business within these markets,” says Rodrigues. “My main focus in this newly created role will be to provide dedicated support for our existing channel partners and to identify new partners and distributors in the SADC region to cater for the growing demand in the enterprise markets” explains Rodrigues.
Alvarion South Africa currently operates in the southern African countries of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Mauritius as well as Nigeria.
“Alvarion South Africa is a dynamic and innovative company. I love working for an organisation that is focused and driven and constantly looking to expand, grow and change, while still keeping its close family feel,” says Rodrigues. “After four years with the company, I appreciate its focus on looking after both its internal staff and external customers,” says Rodrigues.
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Alvarion (NASDAQ:ALVR) is a global 4G communications leader with the industry's most extensive customer base, including hundreds of commercial 4G deployments. Alvarion's industry leading network solutions for broadband wireless technologies WiMax, TD-LTE and WiFi, enable broadband applications for service providers and enterprises covering a variety of industries such as mobile broadband, residential and business broadband, utilities, municipalities and public safety agencies. Through an open network strategy, superior IP and OFDMA know-how, and ability to deploy large scale end-to-end turnkey networks, Alvarion is delivering the true 4G broadband experience today (www.alvarion.com).
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