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WestconGroup Southern Africa to distribute APC


Johannesburg, 30 Jun 2015

Value-added distributor, WestconGroup Southern Africa, is pleased to announce the company has secured the rights to distribute the APC portfolio of products in the region.

APC by Schneider Electric, formerly known as American Power Conversion Corporation, is a manufacturer of uninterruptible power supplies, electronics peripherals and data centre products.

"With the addition of APC to our Unified Communications and Collaboration portfolio, we are now able to offer our reseller customers in southern Africa access to another tier-one brand in the power market, acting as the perfect complement to our existing portfolio of backup power, power distribution and power management products," states Tiens Lange, Unified Communications and Collaboration Director at WestconGroup Southern Africa.

"Furthermore, APC is a welcome addition for companies looking to help their African customers base, which, to date, have had to deal with power outages, lack of power supply, inferior power and even power spikes, which can have a devastating impact on a data centre."

Westcon will provide customers in the region access to the full range of APC products and solutions that cater for clients across a broad spectrum of applications in the home; small and medium office; as well as large enterprises. In addition, the distributor will support this with its value-added services offerings, including: service, support, training and backup stock.

Today, APC is a key player in ensuring clean and uninterrupted power supply to data centres, business networks and server rooms, homes, and industrial sites. It is a key component of ensuring production, manufacturing and even productivity are not impacted when the power goes down, as well as when the quality of power is inferior.

"We view this agreement with APC as a valuable addition to our business, and believe that it will provide us with the ability to extend the service to partners where we can help them build tailor-made solutions, across multiple brands and platforms, for their end-user customers," ends Lange.

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WestconGroup is a value-added distributor of category-leading unified communications, network infrastructure, data centre, and security solutions with a global network of specialty resellers. The company goes to market under the Comstor and Westcon brands. WestconGroup's teams are located in 60+ countries around the globe, create unique programs and provide exceptional support to accelerate the business of its global partners. Strong relationships enable partners to receive support tailored to their needs. From global logistics and flexible customised financing solutions to pre-sales, technical and engineering assistance, the company works with partners to respond with agility and speed to changing market conditions so they can achieve the fastest time to revenue. WestconGroup's portfolio of market-leading vendors includes: Cisco, Avaya, Polycom, Check Point, F5, Palo Alto and Blue Coat, among others. For more information, please visit www.westcongroup.com.

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