Arrow Electronics and Vodafone Join Forces to Offer Market-Leading Technology for IoT / M2M Solutions
December 06 2016 - 10:02AM
Business Wire
Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) today announced a new
agreement with Vodafone, a global market leader for cellular
network services and managed internet of things (IoT) connectivity.
Arrow will market Vodafone’s IoT services as part of its eVolve IoT
offering.
The Arrow eVolve offering is a comprehensive framework
enabling businesses to globally deploy, manage, monitor, analyze
and monetize secure connected devices throughout their entire
lifecycle. This cooperation with Vodafone extends the services
offering with managed data connectivity solutions that Arrow can
now provide to its extensive global customer base. With the rapid
growth of applications and services requiring IoT connectivity,
Vodafone’s established capabilities, networks and services will
offer customers secure connectivity with scalability and
performance to address business needs today and in the future.
The combination of Arrow and Vodafone solutions creates a
compelling offering with global network coverage, wireless and
embedded edge technology, system integration, data platform and
cloud integration, enterprise computing, IoT edge device
connectivity and application enablement for millions of connected
devices. The agreement will allow Arrow to market and resell
network services tailored for customer applications. An example of
this is the availability of 2G low data rate SIM connectivity for
M2M applications.
“Vodafone’s solutions and services expand and enhance Arrow’s
go-to-market strategy in the fast-growing market segments within
IoT. Our extensive IoT technology solutions stack and professional
services are now complemented with differentiated network services
from a global leader,” said Aiden Mitchell, vice president of IoT
Solutions at Arrow.
Vodafone Director of IoT Ivo Rook added, “The ecosystem around
IoT is going to be critical to the long term success of the
technology. I believe that this kind of relationship with Arrow
will lead to ongoing success for both organizations and the market
more widely.”
About Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products, services and
solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic
components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow serves as a
supply channel partner for more than 100,000 original equipment
manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers
through a global network of more than 460 locations serving over 85
countries. Learn more at www.fiveyearsout.com.
About Vodafone Group
Vodafone is one of the world’s largest telecommunications
companies and provides a range of services including voice,
messaging, data and fixed communications. Vodafone has mobile
operations in 26 countries, partners with mobile networks in 49
more, and fixed broadband operations in 17 markets. As of 30
September 2016, Vodafone had 470 million mobile customers and 14
million fixed broadband customers. For more information, please
visit: www.vodafone.com.
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