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Netgear Enterprise announces first Apex and Apex MSP partners

Netgear has announced that Thomas-Krenn.AG and Connectivity Warehouse have become the world’s first partners to achieve Apex and Apex MSP certification, respectively, through the Netgear Drive Partner Success Program. For their customers, these certifications mean that the engineering, sales, and service delivery capabilities of the team managing or installing their Netgear network have been independently verified before they ever arrive on site.

Netgear introduced the Drive Partner Success Program in November 2025. Rather than recognizing partners for what they purchase, the program certifies them for what they can do: the engineers they have trained, the customer deployments they have validated, and the service practices they have implemented.

“Customers are choosing partners the same way they choose products: based on what those partners can actually do, not what they have purchased”, says Thomas Schwab, Channel Chief, Worldwide Channels at Netgear Enterprise. “By achieving the Apex and Apex MSP certifications, respectively, Thomas-Krenn.AG and Connectivity Warehouse demonstrated a commitment to their customers: the person who sells the solution can also build it, and the team that builds it will still be there when something needs attention.”

For businesses that rely on a managed service provider to keep their network running, it’s important that the partner they choose will remain accountable even if something goes wrong six months after installation. Apex MSP is the Drive program’s highest tier, requiring partners to qualify three certified post-sales engineers and pass a live virtual audit of their IT service management practices, in addition to the engineering and sales certifications required for Apex.

Connectivity Warehouse, a Dallas, Texas-area networking solutions provider serving offices, healthcare facilities, warehouses, and multi-site organizations, is the first partner worldwide to meet that standard. Its customers now have independently verified assurance that the team managing their Netgear infrastructure has been evaluated on service delivery, not just product knowledge.

Thomas-Krenn.AG, which has manufactured custom server and storage systems at its facility in Germany since 2002, has now certified its engineers and sales staff on Netgear infrastructure, meeting every Apex requirement including validated customer success stories. The businesses it serves in the defense, industrial, data center, and public sectors can now work with a single team qualified to design, deploy, and support both the server platform and the Netgear switching infrastructure that connects it.

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