According to a report in TMCNet, wireless digital signage solutions provider ICG, has signed a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro.

The agreement will initially focus on the US retail market but will later cover other global markets and will include the “industry’s first end-to-end wireless digital signage hardware and services”, according to the article, which did not specify any financial terms to the agreement.

The report notes that research indicates that by 2009, there will be over one million digital signs in North America, with the possibility of nearly 135 million locations over the next 10 years coming online.

For their part, ICG said their wireless digital signage solution “redefines the industry standard by eliminating the costs associated with traditional wired solutions. This capability lowers the overall cost of entry for digital signage”, according to the TMCNet report.

 ICG also notes that their agreement with Ingram Micro’s Digital Signage Division will “now facilitate rapid market penetration into this high growth global market through Ingram Micro’s extensive solution provider network and VAR/reseller channel”, adding that this agreement will also enable I.C.G. to “realise global expansion more efficiently as the global market for digital signage continues its massive growth”.

 Ingram Micro is one of the world’s largest technology distributors and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company and a comment from Ingram Micro Australia was still being sought at the time of publication.