AudioCodes Teams Up with Sumitomo Shoji Machinex Japan

Lod, Israel - July 24, 2017 - AudioCodes (NASDAQ: AUDC) Press Release

Highlights

• Sumitomo Shoji Machinex (SMX) is one of Japan’s largest and leading distributors in the communications field
• Collaboration builds on AudioCodes’ high quality products and solutions offering, coupled with SMX’s sales and technical expertise
• Agreement enables SMX to offer its resellers a complete portfolio of field-proven and robust voice products and solutions including:
  1. Session border controllers (SBC)
  2. Media gateways
  3. Cloud Connector Edition (CCE) appliances
  4. IP phones
  5. One Voice Operations Center management suite

Details

AudioCodes, a leading provider of voice networking solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to transition to all-IP voice networks, today announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Sumitomo Shoji Machinex (SMX), one of Japan’s largest and leading distributors in the communications field. SMX will promote AudioCodes’ products and solutions throughout the region with a particular focus on the enterprise unified communications space, including Microsoft’s Skype for Business.

Commenting on the agreement with AudioCodes, Mr Ryoji Yoshida, manager of the UC solution team at SMX, said, “We are very happy to be collaborating with AudioCodes in Japan. AudioCodes’ comprehensive product and solution offering will help our channels meet the growing demands in the local market for robust and scalable unified communications solutions.”

“We are delighted to be working with SMX, a significant player in the Japanese communications market,” said Nimrode Borovsky, VP marketing at AudioCodes. “We strongly believe that SMX’s sales expertise and knowledge of the local market combined with AudioCodes’ field-proven products and solutions will boost our business in Japan as the local UC market starts to take off.”