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Networking
products seller ties up with GoldTelecomm
CEBU -- The mushrooming of many electronic
services outsourcing companies in Cebu has prompted an authorized
distributor of networking products to aggressively penetrate the
Cebu market.
According to Software and Engineering
Data Systems Inc. (S&E) general manager Edel Ortiz, the Manila-based
company aims to penetrate at least 60 percent of Cebu's information
technology (IT) for networking market.
Department of Trade and Industry-Cebu
Provincial Office Director Nelia Navarro had earlier said Cebu has
begun to find its niche in the IT market with the location of many
electronic services outsourcing jobs such as call centers, and another
potential area, medical transcription services.
Ortiz told a press conference at Cebu
City Marriott Hotel last week that 10 to 15 percent or $10 million
of the country's $112 million total IT spending for networking last
year came from Cebu.
"This is why we are now aggressively
marketing our products beginning this year in the area," Ortiz
said.
S&E has partnered with Cebu-based
GoldTelecomm Specialist Inc. (GSI) to become its system or infrastructure
integrator in the area.
Ortiz said S&E is also on the lookout
for an office space to rent to be able to fully establish its presence
in Cebu.
S&E is a distributor of United-States
based SMC Networks products and services, a producer of quality
local area network (LAN) solutions at a low cost of ownership, SMC
Asia Pacific sales division 2 vice president Wesley Chua said.
SMC's product line includes wireless
networking technologies, gigabit Ethernet, broadband access and
routing technologies, as well as products for corporate environments
such as stackable and chassis switches, he said. JBN
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