American Power Conversion Integrates Its New Smart-UPS®with Its InfraStruXure Architecture to Offer Fully-Assembled, Easy-to-Order and Install Solutions

American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC), a leading global provider of end-to-end infrastructure availability solutions, today announced a fully assembled InfraStruXure system integrated with a Smart-UPS VT uninterruptible power supply, including power module, hot-swappable batteries and integrated power distribution. This new InfraStruXure system offers quick connect components and turnkey features to speed up deployment time.

Since the InfraStruXure with Smart-UPS VT architecture uses a modular and scalable design approach, users can expand the system by adding APC’s innovative in-row cooling, centralized management and security products for enhanced capabilities.

“Our legendary and award winning Smart-UPS line coupled with our innovative InfraStruXure architecture provide our customers with highly agile and available solutions for their IT environments,” said Dwight Sperry, APC’s vice president of Enterprise Systems and Business Networks. “The system’s high power density, small form factor and modular architecture make it ideal for applications ranging from high density, disaster recovery and VoIP/IP telephony.”

This new network critical physical infrastructure (NCPI) solution offers a fully-integrated system at a lower initial investment and incorporates several innovative features such as a single rack-based design for better utilization of floor space, higher power efficiency for lower operating costs and a new power distribution design for simplified installation and expansion. Finally, the system improves availability with additional internal battery capacity for runtime scalability.

The new InfraStruXure with Smart-UPS VT is ideal for server rooms and small data centers as well as for remote locations including regional offices. The systems are available in 30KVA and 40KVA, 400V input and are now available throughout Asia, excluding Japan. For more information about InfraStruXure and APC’s other products, please visit www.apc.com/in.

About InfraStruXure

APC’s InfraStruXure is on-demand architecture for network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI). The InfraStruXure design, which integrates power, cooling, rack, management and services, allows the selection of standardized components to create a solution through modular and mobile configurations. This standardization enables an easily scalable architecture designed to meet changing needs and future expansion. This award-winning, patent-pending approach provides increased availability, improved adaptability and speed of deployment as well as lower total cost of ownership for IT environments – from wiring closets to computer rooms to data centers.

With integrated management becoming a critical component in the NCPI, APC offers comprehensive management solutions including InfraStruXure Manager. A browser accessible, user-friendly tool, InfraStruXure Manager provides monitoring of power, cooling, and environmental management at the rack or room level. APC also provides professional services that optimize the NCPI over the complete data center life cycle, including planning, installation, operation and end-of-life services.

About American Power Conversion
Founded in 1981, American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC) is a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time infrastructure. APC’s comprehensive products and services for home and corporate environments improve the availability, manageability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communication and industrial equipment of all sizes. APC offers a wide variety of products for network-critical physical infrastructure including InfraStruXure®, its revolutionary architecture for on-demand data centers, as well as physical threat management products through the company’s NetBotz division. These products and services help companies increase the availability and reliability of their IT systems. Headquartered in West Kingston, Rhode Island, APC reported sales of $2 billion for the year ended December 31, 2005, and is a Fortune 1000, Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 Company. All trademarks are the property of their owners.