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American Power Conversion Corp. NASDAQ: APCC is a company based in West Kingston, Rhode Island focused on providing "power availability solutions" to individuals and businesses. APCC is best known for their manufacture of uninterruptible power supplies, mostly used as a backup power system for servers. APC is being acquired by Schneider Electric. Initially after the acquisition, there were rumors that APC would be be merged with its MGE UPS Systems division, however, these rumors have been found baseless - Schneider has shown no intention of such a merger, especially as merging APC would lose Schneider the benefit of the APC brand. As of today, 7th December, 2006, weeks after the purchase, there has been no significant change in APC's operations. Image File history File links Information_icon. ... Shortcut: WP:CSD Current list: Category:Candidates for speedy deletion There are a few, limited, cases where admins can delete Wikipedia pages on sight. Non-admins can ask for an admin to delete such a page, either by listing it on speedy deletions, or by adding either a {{delete}} or... A public company is a company owned by the public rather than by relatively few individuals. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kingston is a small town in the state of Rhode Island in the United States. ... An uninterruptible power supply (UPS), uninterruptible power source or sometimes called a battery backup is a device which maintains a continuous supply of electric power to connected equipment by supplying power from a separate source when utility power is not available. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... Official language(s) None Capital Providence Largest city Providence Area  Ranked 50th  - Total 1,214* sq mi (3,144* km²)  - Width 37 miles (60 km)  - Length 48 miles (77 km)  - % water 32. ... An uninterruptible power supply (UPS), uninterruptible power source or sometimes called a battery backup is a device which maintains a continuous supply of electric power to connected equipment by supplying power from a separate source when utility power is not available. ... Schneider Electric is a large, worldwide company of French Origin. ...

American Power Conversion Corp

APC is a company based in West Kingston, Rhode Island focused on providing "power availability solutions" to individuals and businesses. APC is best known for their manufacture of uninterruptible power supplies, mostly used as a backup power supplies for servers.

NCPI - what and why

APC is focusing on delivering a total and integrated NCPI solution (Network Critical Physical infrastructure). This is all the data, power, cooling and physical parts of a data center that enables the servers and other IT equipment to run 24-7-365. The focus is increasingly on:

• Minimizing unscheduled down time
• Helping costumers to right-size the equipment
• Minimizing investment now, while retaining ease of upgrading the NCPI later
• Integration
• Reduce waste (time, down time, energy consumption, wrong equipment for the job etc.)

APC is achieving this by

• Eliminating one time engineering
• Modulizing everything into mass produced standard building blocks
• Thinking every building block as a part of the NCPI from the very start.
• Allowing innovative thinking and quantum leaps in technology
• Always taking the stand of the costumer, solving his problems
• Educating costumers to be critical and do better themselves

This allows the selection of standardized, modular components to create a customized solution. This standardization coupled with the APC Design Portal enables an easily scalable architecture designed to meet changing needs and future expansion. This patent-pending approach provides increased availability, improved adaptability and speed of deployment as well as lowered total cost of ownership for IT environments – from wiring closets to computer rooms to data centers.

InfraStruXure™

APC’s InfraStruXure is an on-demand NCPI system. The InfraStruXure design integrates:

• Power management: UPS, Generators, Fuel cells etc.
• High precision Cooling
• IT equipment Racks
• Data center management
• Data center services

Global Presence

APC’s corporate offices are located in West Kingston, Rhode Island. The Company has sales offices throughout the world; manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Ireland, Switzerland, Denmark, Philippines, China, India, and Brazil; and ships product to approximately 160 countries. In 2005, 52% of APC’s revenues were in the Americas (North and Latin America), 30% were in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 18% were in Asia. As of December 31, 2005, APC had approximately 7,580 full-time employees worldwide.

APC History

Three Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Labs' electronic power engineers founded American Power Conversion in 1981. At the time, the research and development efforts of these three men were focused on solar power. Over the next few years, APC shifted its focus to power protection introducing its first UPS, the 750, in 1984. The need for capital to support this growing business was satisfied in July 1988 when APC became a publicly held company. The stock, trading under the symbol "APCC," was priced at $7.50, or $.125 per share when adjusted for stock splits. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is organized into five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments and 53 interdisciplinary laboratories, centers and programs. ...

Over the years, APC has developed a global, end-to-end, product offering targeted at four strategic application areas: Home/Small Office; Business Networks; Access Providers; and Data Centers & Facilities. Internal product development has been augmented with strategic acquisitions to form an industry leading product portfolio. Throughout the world, the APC brand has become synonymous with quality power back-up and management solutions.

In 2003 APC issued a recall for 900,000 back-up power supply devices. There was a risk the power supply devices could overheat and cause a fire hazard. UPS models Back-UPS CS350 and the Back-UPS CS 500 were affected by the recall.

Key Application Areas

Today, the Company focuses its efforts on four key application areas:

• Home/Home Office
• Business Networks
• Access Provider Networks
• Data Centers and Facilities

Each requires customized efforts for products, sales and marketing, but each has a common theme: high availability is increasingly essential. APC is positioning itself to be the preferred brand worldwide in all four of these application areas.

External links

• American Power Conversion