Test and measurement distribution tends to get a bit lost among the regular diet of component stories, and it is a decent sized business which has attracted the catalogue giants and a group of test and measurement specialists.
I attended the launch of a new mixed signal oscilloscope this week and that's as much as I can tell you as the announcement is embargoed until later next month. "It is pretty much an exclusively distributor product," the company's executive told me.
Music to any distributor's ears. I got the same comment from Le Croy when it launched its own low-cost mixed signal scope last month.
So it shouldn't be an great surprise to hear that Tektronix has signed up with Mouser Electronics to sell its range of oscilloscopes and function generators. It's a tasty brand to be able to flourish as Barry McConnell, Mousers vice president of product marketing acknowledges, describing it as "a world renowned and trusted brand."
When I met Mark Burr-Lonnon, who is heading up Mouser's push into Europe he promised six or seven new lines by the end of the year. I think this leaves three to go.
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