APC expands Smart-UPS line

BANGALORE

NOVEMBER 14, 2006

American Power Conversion (APC), a power availability solutions provider, has
expanded its Smart-UPS RT line to include 6000VA and 8000VA models. These double
conversion online uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), offer users extremely
tight voltage and frequency regulation, internal bypass, and input power factor
correction.

The units provide high performance power protection with scalable runtime,
which is ideal for supporting voice and data networks in a wide variety of
environments including medical labs and light industrial sites. Delivering high
performance power protection in a 3U rack height, the 6000VA model addresses
customers' needs for an online UPS that can deliver scalable runtime in a small
U space. Until the launch of the Smart-UPS RT 6000AV model, this level of power
protection was only available in a 4U or 6U size.

“Global IT trends, such as increasing power density resulting from the use of
blade servers, network and server consolidation and migration, are rapidly
changing IT networks,” said Pankaj Sharma, Country GM, APC India. “The goal of
our Smart-UPS RT line is to not only provide support to power hungry blade
servers and heavily loaded equipment racks, but to offer a flexible form factor
allowing standardization across multiple applications.”

The 6000VA and 8000VA models round out the Smart-UPS RT family and give
customers the ability to implement innovative solutions for computer rooms to
data centers with 1-20 racks. High power internal chargers allow virtually
unlimited additional matching battery packs to comply with aggressive runtime
demands of business-critical systems.

The units are available in tower as well as rack-optimized (3U and 6U) models
that are tested and certified for use within APC's InfraStruXureâ architecture.
As customers' physical infrastructure needs change and expand, the Smart-UPS RT
line helps IT professionals easily configure and use integrated solutions for
their networks.

Ideal for applications requiring two hour or longer runtimes, the Smart-UPS
RT has the ability to add unlimited hot-swappable battery packs and offers a
high efficiency inverter design. Features such as a wide input voltage range
(-23 percent +25 percent at full load and —52 percent +25 percent at half load),
intelligent precision charging, and UPS battery management all help ensure
maximum battery life.

Additionally, a flexible form factor allows easy deployment in either an
integrated InfraStruXure solution, an IT rack environment, or as a stand-alone
unit for medical lab or light industrial sites.

The Smart-UPS RT family also offers a wide range of management options. All
units come with a remote management capability featuring APC's PowerChute
monitoring and management software. In addition, centralized management of the
Smart-UPS RT is simple using APC's InfraStruXure Manager as well as other server
management tools such as Intel's LAN Manager and similar tools from HP, IBM,
Sun, Cisco and other hardware vendors.

The 6000VA and 8000VA Smart-UPS RT are now available worldwide and have an
estimated resale price of Rs 1,05,000 and Rs 1,98,000 respectively.