Westcon-Comstor has announced an agreement with Nokia to distribute their Nokia Drone Networks drone-in-a-box solution to its channel partners to capitalise on the growing utilisation of aerial drones and drone technology across multiple industries. Under the agreement, Westcon-Comstor becomes an approved distributor of Nokia Drone Networks in the EU, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Westcon will distribute the solution through Nokia-certified technology resellers, systems integrators and service providers – creating further sales opportunities through cross-sell and upsell opportunities.
4G/LTE and 5G connected automated drones can serve numerous use cases from site security, machine inspection, predictive maintenance and environmental sensing, hence demand for industrial-grade drones is gaining momentum across sectors including ports, oil and gas, mining, public safety, telecommunications and utilities. According to Westcon-Comstor’s research, estimates of the size of the global drone market is anticipated to grow from US $26.3 billion in 2021 to US $54.6 billion by 2030. Numerous applications exist, including automated drone missions that require efficient data gathering and secure transfer.
“Drones are a technology of the future, with strong and growing demand across public safety, smart cities, construction, energy and more,” said Antony Byford, VP of IoT & Collaboration at Westcon-Comstor. “We are excited and honoured to be building on our strategic relationship with Nokia by bringing its market-leading drone-in-a-box solution to a wider audience of end-user businesses through our channel partners in multiple geographic territories.”
“The use of industrial drones as well as global spectrum policies to use drones within 4G and 5G networks is growing. This development accelerates the introduction of Nokia’s European made 5G drone-in-a-box system for private and public 4G/LTE and 5G networks,” said Pri Rawal, Global Head of Enterprise Campus Edge Partnerships at Nokia.