NETGEAR Appoints Wick Hill To Expand Its Business Presence in Channel

Woking, UK and Bracknell, UK: 15th April, 2009 - Wick Hill has been appointed as a distributor for NETGEAR, worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products. The value added distributor (VAD) will carry NETGEAR’s business networking solutions aimed at the SME market, to further increase the company’s business presence in the channel. Wick Hill will focus on NETGEAR’s ProSecure range - the company’s latest web and email threat management appliances.

NETGEAR’s ProSecure STM series offers enterprise-class security to SMEs by protecting them from the entire web or email threat type rather than a small subset of it. As this technology is normally too expensive for SMEs, NETGEAR’s cost-effective ProSecure range solves this problem with its patent-pending web-optimised Stream Scanning architecture.

The ProSecure range includes the STM150, STM300 and STM600 which contain the same security functionality with increasing amounts of bandwidth to support various-sized SMEs.

Wick Hill will also be offering NETGEAR’s complete range of business products including solutions for wireless, storage, security, web/email security, routers, firewalls and switches.

Ian Kilpatrick, chairman Wick Hill Group, said: “The launch of the ProSecure range marks NETGEAR’s entry into this specific security market and the company has appointed us for our extensive experience of working with vendors in this area. We have worked with NETGEAR previously in Germany and have an in-depth understanding of their products.  NETGEAR is a well established brand with a proven track record in entering markets and making a significant impact in the channel. We are looking forward to working with NETGEAR and supporting its partners.”

Mark Power, UK managing director for NETGEAR, said: “As we only sell through the channel, we rely heavily on good relationships with our partners to increase our presence. We appointed Wick Hill based upon their strong background in security and commitment to grow business markets, and are confident that this partnership will have a significant impact on the future of our business. ”