India, Bangalore – April 6th, 2006 – American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC), a leading global provider of end-to-end infrastructure availability solutions, today announced that its innovative, new InfraStruXureâ InRow RC data center cooling unit recently was named a “Best of FOSE” award winner by the editors of Government Computer News (GCN) magazine and its sister publication Washington Technology.   The “Best of FOSE” award recognizes new and groundbreaking products and solutions in the government IT industry.

Judges from GCN and Washington Technology examined roughly 200 nominated products and named 13 GCN “Best of FOSE” winners and two grand-prize “Best of Show” winners at this year’s FOSE 2006 event in Washington, D.C.  FOSE represents the government’s largest annual gathering of information technology professionals. 

“We are honored that Government Computer News chose to recognize APC’s success in data center product innovation,” said Bill Bockoven, APC’s director of government and education sales.  “In many instances, the amount of heat generated per rack exceeds what traditional data center cooling solutions can handle effectively.  This award gives us the opportunity to increase APC’s visibility in the government market.”

“APC stood out for their innovation and applicability to government requirements,” said Tom Temin, executive vice president, and editor-in chief of PostNewsweek Tech Media, the owners of Government Computer News, Washington Technology, Government Leader, Defense Systems and FOSE.  “Innovation in technology is more important than ever considering how many IT products have become almost indistinguishable based solely on price and specifications.”

APC’s InfraStruXure InRow RC is a modular cooling solution that is installed next to the IT equipment rack in applications ranging from small computer rooms to large data centers.  Deployed to both sides of a rack enclosure, the unit can predictably deliver up to 60kW of cooling per rack of IT equipment or up to 30kW per rack with full redundancy.  The operation of the InRow RC maximizes performance by capturing the heat at the source.  This reduces the overall total cost of ownership by enabling rightsizing and improved operational efficiency.  This chilled water unit is half the width of a standard IT rack (300mm) and offers hot swappable, variable speed fans to improve availability and save energy.  The InRow RC also offers network manageability through integration with APC’s InfraStruXure Manager.

To learn more about APC’s award-winning InfraStruXure solutions, please visit APC’s website at www.apc.com/in.

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 InfraStruXureâ, its revolutionary architecture for on-demand data centers, as well as physical threat management products through the company’s NetBotzâ 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.