AEP Launches Partner Program

SOMERSET, N.J. -- AEP Networks today unveiled an enhanced channel program to fulfill increased market demand for its Policy Networking security and application access solutions. The new AEP Business Partner Program is designed to enable and reward partners for the value they add in helping customers address business critical network security and access challenges. The enhancements to the program deliver new product solutions, financial incentives, training and support offerings that are designed to make it easier for channel partners to drive demand and capture new business opportunities.

"As AEP Networks continues to evolve and deliver market leading technology to our customers, we recognized the need to streamline our partner programs and create a single program uniting existing partners," said Paul Vick, Vice President of Global Channel Sales for AEP Networks. "With our reputation, expertise, and breadth of solutions, we believe that the new AEP Business Partner Program offers our partners unprecedented business opportunities and a competitive advantage that will help grow their business and drive increased revenue. Partners will have access to appropriate resources to help them address customers' toughest networking and security challenges."

The new program design features three reseller membership levels, plus global distribution partners. With this channel program, AEP Networks has made the investment to deliver a program that provides partners with enhanced training, certification, marketing and PR programs, sales tools and knowledgeable sales support to enable them to easily market and deliver solutions that fit customers’ individual business needs and environments. AEP Networks currently has partnership agreements with over 150 value-added resellers and system integrators throughout the world.

"AEP Networks can help us reach a larger profitability margin by providing our customers with a complete secure networking and application access solution," said Chris Mangano, Director of Business Development at Mercadien Technologies. "The AEP Business Partner Program will be a great resource and marketing value for us."

AEP Networks Inc.