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Two-tier distribution: they sell to resellers rather than to the organisations that use the equipment. An invisible layer to most engineers, and the one that decides which products are practical to buy in a given country.

16 companies

- presentLAN Professional - the Cabletron channel in BrazilSao Paulo distributor and authorised training centre for Cabletron, Enterasys, F5 Networks and IronPort.training
- 2007Mude - the distributor at the centre of Operacao PersonaBrazilian Cisco importer investigated from 2007 in a federal foreign-trade fraud case.
1935 - presentArrow ElectronicsStarted on Radio Row selling used radios; lost thirteen of its leaders in one afternoon and rebuilt.
1957 - presentAnixterA distributor wrote the specification that became Cat 5 and Cat 6.
1974 - presentTech Data and SYNNEX (now TD SYNNEX)A father sold it to his son for ten thousand dollars; it is now the largest technology distributor in the world.
1979 - presentIngram MicroTwo schoolteachers started it, and it now moves fifty billion dollars of other people's products a year.
1985 - presentWestcon-ComstorThe layer between the vendor and the reseller, which decides what is practical to buy in your country.
1990 - presentAfina - the distributor Westcon bought to reach Latin AmericaSpanish security and data centre distributor, founded 1990, acquired by Westcon Group in 2012.
1992 - presentScanSourceDistributed products that were on their way to becoming commodities, and tried to arrive first.
1993 - presentCLM - value-added distribution across Latin AmericaThe layer that decides which security products a Latin American reseller can actually sell.
1995 - presentEtek NovaRed - a Brazilian firm owned from Miami, then from SantiagoBrazilian information-security company, a Chilean-American joint venture from 2012 and wholly Chilean-owned from 2021.services
2002 - presentAdistec - distribution written for a region, not a countryValue-added distributor for Latin America and the Caribbean, founded 2002, headquartered in Miami.
2003 - presentWDC Networks - distribution that manufacturesBrazilian technology distributor founded in 2003, listed on B3, working a technology-as-a-service model.
2003 - presentExclusive Networks - distribution with five hundred engineersFrench specialist cybersecurity distributor, listed on Euronext Paris in 2021 and taken private again from 2024.
2004 - 2015Network1Bought by the company its own buyer had bought four years earlier.
2005 - presentVersim - distribution and training, PolandPolish distributor and authorised training centre for Extreme Networks.training

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