Dubai, United Arab Emirates: A10 Networks™, the technology leader in Application Networking and IPv6 Migration, has signed on Scope Middle East (SCOPE ME), a leading specialty distributor and technology solutions provider in the Middle East, as a distributor. SCOPE ME will adopt a value-added approach to grow the regional market-share for A10 Networks’ AX Series Application Delivery Controllers.

The Application Delivery Controller (ADC) market in the Middle East is valued at over $20 million (AED 73 million) annually. Through the new partnership with SCOPE ME, A10 Networks aims to achieve a market-share of 10% within the first year.

“The Middle East holds great potential for our application networking products. Scope’s astute understanding of this market, technical capabilities and strong channel presence in the region will allow A10 to accelerate our business expansion,” said Mark Edge, Sales Director, EMEA, for A10 Networks. “We look forward to a successful partnership with Scope and market penetration through contract wins in the government, finance, manufacturing and other key sectors.”

The AX Series Application Delivery Controllers are new generation server load balancers with the industry’s best price/performance, which help enterprises and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to scale and maximize application availability through the world’s most advanced application delivery platform. It is revolutionary by current market standards due to its award winning Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) with a native multi-core CPU, shared memory architecture, which is exponentially faster and more scalable than other systems on the market.

Commenting on the partnership, Mr. Fadi AbuEkab, Chief Executive Officer of SCOPE said, “Scope is proud to be appointed as A10 Networks’ value-added distributor and we are excited to be offering the vendor’s cutting-edge technology to our channel partners and clients. This tie-up plays to our key strengths of providing application delivery, IPv6 migration and virtualization solutions. We are confident that the products will have a good uptake by clients in the region.”

SCOPE ME is one of the Middle East’s premier technology solutions providers. Its vendor base includes well known leading global technology vendors like Blue Coat, Legrand, Kaspersky, Splicecom and intranet technology specialist Adenin Technologies.