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American Power Conversion Introduces Its Smart-UPS(R) VT Family Offering IT Professionals a Cost-Effective, User-Friendly and Highly Available UPS Solution for Small Data Centers

Posted on: Tuesday, 10 August 2004, 06:00 CDT

WEST KINGSTON, R.I., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Power Conversion (APC), a leading global provider of power protection solutions for data centers and industrial facilities, today introduced its Smart-UPS VT double conversion online uninterruptible power supply (UPS) family. APC's VT family offers IT professionals the performance and "legendary reliability" of the award-winning Smart-UPS line for a larger range of IT environments -- expanding up through to small data centers and remote offices. With a power range of 10-30kVA, APC's Smart-UPS VT family is an ideal power protection solution for IT managers looking for cost-effective, user-friendly and highly available IT solutions.

The Smart-UPS VT lowers IT user's total cost of ownership through a range of features including built-in maintenance bypass switch, compact space-saving footprint and scalable and hot-swappable batteries. It also offers a user- friendly intelligence and system management that is feature-rich and simple to use. In addition, the VT family offers one of the highest efficiency double conversion online performances at 95.5 percent for loads at 25-100 percent and standard dual main input. Smart-UPS VT provides network-grade UPS performance for fileservers, minicomputers, UNIX CPUs and is ideal for branch back-office sites and mission-critical applications such as Internet hubs, networking and communications, telecommunications and diagnostic equipment.

"IT managers seeking to optimize their total cost of ownership will find APC's Smart-UPS VT quite appealing due to its combination of cost-effective price and performance power protection," said Dwight Sperry, group general manager of APC's Enterprise Systems and Business Networks. "In smaller data centers, IT managers must manage and maintain part of the solution themselves, and often don't have specialized personnel on hand to help out. This is particularly true in a branch environment where personnel are rarely available, and all maintenance is on-call. Smarts-UPS VT offers an ideal solution."

Additional benefits of APC's Smart-UPS VT family include:

* Provides high system availability with standard dual mains input and

built-in maintenance bypass switch

* Reduces mean time to repair and provides maximum uptime with module-

level repair and internal bypass

* Automatically detects voltage and frequency through menu-driven start-

up procedure

* Ensures full UPS and battery manageability via Web browser with UPS

Network Management Card with Environmental Monitoring

* Attains zero transfer time and tight voltage/frequency regulation for

critical applications with double conversion online topology

* Reduces installation costs with PF 1 regulated input, easily accessible

wiring connections and wheels to roll the UPS into place

* Saves IT space with up to 60 percent smaller footprint than Silcon line

* Minimizes audible noise with efficient and intelligent fan operation

* All the benefits of APC's existing Smart-UPS line such as reliability,

manageability and affordability

A wide range of management options is available with the Smart-UPS VT family. APC Network Management Card with Environmental Monitoring, which ships standard with all models and allows for remote or Web-based UPS management. APC's Network Management Card provides management of an individual UPS by connecting the UPS directly to the network with a dedicated IP address, eliminating the need for a proxy. For centralized UPS management, Smart-UPS VT readily integrates into APC's InfraStruXure Manager Appliance that easily manages an entire APC network-critical physical infrastructure. Smart-UPS VT customers can purchase InfraStruXure Manager separately.

APC's Smart-UPS VT family in the 10-30kVA power range will be available in North America in September 2004 and has an estimated resale price of $13,000 for the 10kVA model. APC expects to offer the Smart-UPS VT family in the 10- 40kVA power range internationally later this year. For more information about APC and its other innovative network availability solutions, please call 800- 877-4080 or visit APC's website at http://www.apc.com/

About American Power Conversion

Founded in 1981, American Power Conversion is a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time infrastructure. APC's comprehensive products and services offering, designed for both home and corporate environments, improves the availability, manageability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communication and industrial equipment of all sizes. Headquartered in West Kingston, Rhode Island, APC reported sales of $1.46 billion for the year ended December 31, 2003, and is a Fortune 1000, Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 Company. All trademarks are the property of their owners.

For more information contact:

Media:

Chet Lasell, APC public relations director, 800-788-2208 ext. 2693,

chet.lasell@apcc.com

Investors:

Debbie Hancock, APC investor relations director, 800-788-2208, ext. 2994,

debbie.hancock@apcc.com

American Power Conversion

CONTACT: Media: Chet Lasell, public relations director, +1-800-788-2208ext. 2693, chet.lasell@apcc.com, or Investors: Debbie Hancock, investorrelations director, +1-800-788-2208, ext. 2994, debbie.hancock@apcc.com, bothof American Power Conversion

Web site: http://www.apc.com/

Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/046187.html

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