Arkona Technologies establishes presence in Benelux with two new channel partners

Arkona technologies has announced its entry in the Benelux region with the appointment of two new channel partners: Wil Cordfunke in Holland and Hans Braes (Network Electronics Belux) in Belgium. The move to establish dedicated sales channels for the Benelux region underscores arkona’s repositioning from a pure OEM and development company to one where sales and support will be handled directly, both for new customers and existing end users.

Arkona partner manager Wiggo Evensen said: “Arkona is thrilled to welcome respected industry veterans Wil and Hans as partners in the Benelux market, where we already have a huge installed base. Wil and Hans have a vast knowledge of the region and will bring great value by supporting existing installations.”

In addition Cordfunke and Braes will be responsible for sales and marketing of Arkona’s recently released Blade//runner product line which provides a wide variety of IP core infrastructure tools for audio/video routing, compression, processing and multi-viewing.

“Arkona’s products, while previously marketed under a different name, have been well established in the Benelux market for over a decade, and with the recent release of the next generation Blade//runner IP core infrastructure products, the timing is perfect to build upon that success,” explained Cordfunke. “I’m delighted to have the opportunity to represent Arkona in Holland.”

Braes stated: “As IP technology continues to permeate the broadcast industry, and with Arkona’s focus on API first and infrastructure-as-code, for the near future, Arkona is one of the best positioned companies to help broadcasters with their transition to fully IP-based productions.

“Arkona’s hard-earned experience with broadcast IP combined with its decades-long knowledge of broadcast production are just some of the reasons I was motivated to establish this representative partnership.”

Erling Hedkvist, sales & business development manager, Arkona, added: “Hans and Wil are among the first of a long list of partners we’ll announce over the next few months that will join the Arkona global partner network, and I’m very happy they have agreed to represent us in this key market. With their extensive experience supporting the Tier 1 media companies in the region, I know they will provide the outstanding customer service companies have come to expect from Arkona.”