NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) has announced its U.S. division, NTT America, and Intelisys have entered into a strategic agreement enabling Intelisys to market NTT Com’s entire suite of domestic and international ICT services to its sales partner community of telecom agents, value added resellers (VARs), managed service providers (MSPs), and IT solution providers (ITSPs). The deal, which was struck in September 2015, provides Intelisys sales partners with uniquely attractive terms, a robust portfolio of network, cloud, security and other offerings, and significant opportunities to expand internationally. Company representatives will be available to discuss this agreement at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, booth number 803, from March 16-18, at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas.

Intelisys is the latest announced partner of NTT America’s Global Solutions Channel Partner Program, an indirect sales program tailored to the U.S. market. Since its launch at Cloud Partners in September 2014, the program has exceeded its goal of adding the largest, most respected, connected and supportive master agents to its roster. NTT America specifically sought Intelisys for the proven record of its sub-agents, known as sales partners. “What attracted us to Intelisys was their market presence, brand and industry depth, as well as the training, growth and retention of their sales partners community,” said Rob Westervelt, NTT America vice president and general manager, Indirect Global Solutions. “Initial results have been promising, and while it’s still early days, we expect Intelisys to be among our top selling partners.”

The agreement enables Intelisys sales partners  to sell a fully integrated solution set of cloud, network and data center services through a single ICT provider, NTT Communications. Furthermore, Intelisys sales partners can now leverage NTT Com’s 140 secure data centers as well as other strategic assets of the company, regularly named as one the world’s largest and most innovative ICT providers. NTT Com’s solution set includes network functions virtualization (NFV), disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), network security, unified communications and collaboration (UCC) and UCaaS, professional services, hardware as a service (HWaaS) and more. NTT Com’s U.S. division, NTT America, provides partners with dedicated sales and engineering support and competitive residual-based compensation that is unique and particularly attractive in this case.

“The NTT Com solutions available to us through our partnership with NTT America are key to our expansion in the international, cloud solution and data center arenas,” said J.R. Cook, SVP Business Development, Intelisys. “We are excited to see the strong collaboration between NTT America’s channel team and our Sales Partner community, and we are already seeing a great funnel of opportunities building.”

Intelisys is known in the channel partner industry for its longevity, size and reliability. Home of the “top performer,” Intelisys places a consistent focus on helping sales partners thrive. By selecting the best sales professionals to join its sales partners community, it can offer an exceptionally high support-staff-to-partner ratio. Through its leading supplier partner portfolio, extensive pre-sales support, expert pre- and post-sales engineering support, and free education and certification, Intelisys enables its sales partners to deliver the increasingly complex services that end-user customers require. “We have sales partners who focus on the health industry, services, retail, manufacturing and other sectors; we have those who focus on enterprise organizations, and those who focus on small-to-medium sized businesses,” said Cook. “Because of our diversity, we’re confident that the NTT Com offerings will appeal to a wide segment of our sales partners community.”