Agilent, Digi-Key Announce Distribution Agreement
Agilent Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) and Digi-Key Corp. (Thief River Falls, MN), an electronic component distributor, recently announced that they have signed a distribution agreement. The agreement allows Agilent's Semiconductor Products Group (SPG) to make an array of its products accessible to designers via Digi-Key's distribution channel and real-time online service and support site.
Digi-Key's inventory of Agilent products includes a full range of LEDs and displays, optocouplers, motion control encoders, radio frequency (RF) and microwave devices and infrared and optical transceivers. These products are used in applications that span industrial, office automation, consumer electronics, home appliances, signs and signals, wireless, networking and automotive markets.
"The addition of Digi-Key to our global distribution network will help us reach more engineers in the critical early stages of their designs," said Frank Robertazzi, vice president of worldwide distribution for Agilent's SPG. "Digi-Key's catalog distribution channel provides another avenue for our customers to purchase samples and order literature and early production quantities online at any time."
