Top performing Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise premium partners spurred the vendor to grow its UK&I data business by 27% in 2013.
All premium partners in the region contributed to growth last year, and most notably Freedom Communications collected the Europe Achiever Award for growth in data as well as an Excellence Award.
The vendor also orchestrated double digit growth in managed LAN across EMEA in 2013, as well as showing significant growth in the wireless LAN market where the company claims to have grown over three times the market rate in EMEA.
Product developments in Unified Access and the Enterprise OpenTouch solution also proved to be significant drivers for growth, supported by the company's channel strategy.
Key customer wins in 2013 were bagged across all market sectors including hospitality, healthcare and the public sector with big data orders including St. Anne's College Oxford, the National Physical Laboratory and the NHS North Bristol Trust.
Peter Tebbutt, Country Sales Director, UK&I, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, said:?"All of our UK&I partners that focus on data with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise have grown over the last 12 months.
"We have seen a significant increase in uptake of our data switching technologies in particular which has equally helped to grow our business. We will continue to focus on data as an area for growth in 2014."