Telent appointed as Huawei's first UK enterprise partner

Network and comms services player certified to build solutions and services around Chinese giant's portfolio

Telent has become the first UK channel player to gain accreditation to deliver enterprise solutions and managed services around Huawei's portfolio.

The network and comms services giant is now badged up as a Value Added Partner and, as such, is certified to build enterprise solutions and service offerings around the Chinese vendor's unified communications, contact centre and networking technology.

Telent claims its design, implementation, lifecycle and managed service skills will allow customers to take best advantage of Huawei's kit.

Chris Metcalfe, managing director of technology solutions at telent, said: "Combining telent's impressive range of market-leading technology services with a product portfolio of Huawei's calibre will massively impact our public and private sector customers."

Simon Culmer, UK and Ireland vice president of Huawei's Enterprise Group, said: "Huawei has successfully worked with telent for many years in the UK telecoms space and know them as a highly professional and reliable partner in this space, we were therefore delighted when telent became the first Value Added Partner for Huawei Enterprise Group."