Elancourt, 31 January 2017 – Airbus and Trimax IT Infrastructure & Services Limited signed a Value Added Reseller (VAR) agreement to support the growth of Airbus’ Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) solutions in India. From now on, Trimax will sell PMR equipment and technology from Airbus in the South Asian country. In recent years, Trimax has become a leading provider of IT services in India in areas including connectivity, data centres, cloud services and system integration. The company is also a provider of industry-specific solutions in sectors such as transportation.
“This agreement is key for Airbus to make significant inroads into the Indian PMR market. The company has a large customer base across the country with the kind of customers we wish to address and we see great synergies,” explains Jens Thostrup Head of Marketing and Business Development of Secure Land Communications (SLC) at Airbus. “We are very pleased to be working together and to leverage each other’s strengths regarding technologies and capabilities. This can create a buzz in the Indian market for PMR-based solutions, such as Tetra,” he adds.
Surya Prakash Madrecha, Chairman and Managing Director of Trimax, says: “We are convinced that with the PMR portfolio of Airbus, we will be able to provide Indian PMR customers with some unique and very innovative solutions.”
About Airbus
Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2015, it generated revenues of €64.5 billion and employed a workforce of around 136,600. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as Europe’s number one space enterprise and the world’s second largest space business. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.
Secure Land Communications (SLC), a business unit of Airbus, develops, installs and maintains professional and land mobile radio (PMR/LMR) networks based on Tetra, Tetrapol and P25 technologies and offers a wide range of radio solutions and devices for customers worldwide. The portfolio also encompasses mission-critical broadband solutions based on 3GPP standards and emergency response centres (911/112). SLC is a leader in PMR, with more than 280 radio networks in over 74 countries, and the US leader for 911 response centres with the VESTA 911 call handling solution serving more than 60% of the market. SLC employs nearly 1,700 people in 20 countries.
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