Germany : telephony specialist 20:20 Mobile has hired Carlos Girbal as Huawei and Caterpillar sales manager for South Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

United Kingdom : network and security VAD TD Azlan has launched an online SMB Product Selector that helps Cisco partners to find the solutions they need for their customer quickly and easily. In doing so it enables resellers with little or no experience of the Cisco product line to offer enhanced levels of service to smaller businesses and new Cisco customers. This exclusive tool makes it simple for resellers to find the Cisco products they need by responding to a series of questions about the customer’s requirements. It navigates the reseller though all the options available from Cisco’s wide range of switches, routers, security solutions, wireless access points and IP phones. The Azlan Cisco Product Selector is fully integrated into Computer 2000’s InTouch online system, so orders can be placed immediately, in the normal way, with a single click of a mouse.

Switzerland : network specialist Afcom has expanded its accessory portfolio with Terratec tuners and music accessories.

Dubai based storage and telecom VAD Optimus Technology and Telecommunications has signed a distribution agreement with Romanian antivirus editor Bitdefender for the Middle East and North Africa region, including Pakistan and Afghanistan. As per the agreement, Optimus will promote and distribute Bitdefender’s range of end point, gateway and servers security products and will create and establish Bitdefender’s value channel network by conducting channel development activities for its value added resellers, systems integrators and distributors. It is although doubtful that the company will be very efficient in French-speaking North Africa, which demands French versions of the software it uses, and thus should be covered more efficiently from French-speaking distributors and VADs.