Why Networking?

In a recent IDC survey, more than 300 IT organizations identified network upgrades as their top spending priority—a trend that is now driving network sales faster than overall IT spending. Already a more than $33.8 billion market in North America, the networking market is expected to grow at a 4-year compound annual growth rate of 5.4 percent, according to industry analysts.*

Fueling this market growth are a number of key drivers, ranging from virtualization and cloud computing to converged networks and endpoint growth - all of which require a strong, robust network to succeed. No longer content with networking technology that is just "good enough," customers are turning to trusted advisors for complete, best-of-breed solutions that fully integrate and optimize their infrastructures and elevate their networks into competitive advantages.

Avnet has identified key opportunities in networking to help you to navigate through market complexities so you are equipped with highly effective and profitable solutions that can deliver measurable results for your customers.

If you are interested in learning more about networking solutions, Avnet provides training and enablement tools that accelerate your success, including:

Partner Training and Education

Elevate your mobility and collaboration knowledge and solution expertise through our comprehensive training curriculum, from on-site Universities to on-demand training.

SolutionsPath® Playbooks

Access proven solution "plays" that highlight key supplier-neutral market opportunities as well as align leading suppliers' products and services to address key customer challenges and priorities.

Avnet Demo Center

Extend the value of our Playbooks with live remote demonstrations of key technology solutions featured in the Playbooks. Access to the Demo Center allows for virtual demonstration of key solutions, allowing for real time proof of concept to accelerate the sales cycle while reducing your total cost of sale.

Avnet Demand Center

Utilize this innovative "plug & play" tool to quickly and easily create and deploy original demand generation campaigns specifically geared toward end users in targeted markets.

Data Center Lifecycle Services

Drive profitable growth through the delivery of data center services that span the full IT lifecycle. Take advantage of Avnet’s managed, cloud and professional services to address your customers’ data center optimization needs. Avnet can enable partners with services for all IT lifecycle stages - plan, acquire, integrate, deploy, manage and dispose.

*Avnet Est Based on Gartner/IDC Data, September 2011