

Anixter Inc. is the world’s leading supplier of Supply Chain Services and products used to connect voice, video, data and security systems. Anixter is also the leading provider of specialty electrical and electronic wire and cable for building construction, industrial maintenance and repair, and original equipment manufacturing as well as the leader in providing fasteners and “C” Class components to OEMs and production lines.
We bundle our products with our innovative Supply Chain Services to help control the cost of our customers’ business processes, reduce their investment in inventory, and ensure they get the right product when they need it. A publicly held company, Anixter, with its subsidiaries, serves companies in more than 46 countries around the world. Anixter’s total revenue exceeds $3.8 billion.

CommScope® Inc. (NYSE:CTV) is a world leader in cabling and connectivity solutions for communications networks. Through its SYSTIMAX® Solutions brand, CommScope offers business enterprises some of the industry’s highest performing connectivity solutions for data, voice, video and building management applications in both wired and wireless networks.
The SYSTIMAX Solutions’ product range is cutting edge, providing premium solutions and breakthrough technologies including the copper-based GigaSPEED® X10D and GigaSPEED® XL Solutions, the VisiPatch® 360 System, the fiber optic LazrSPEED® and TeraSPEED™ Solutions and the real time infrastructure management system – the iPatch® System.
Backed by strong research and development, CommScope combines technical expertise, proprietary technology and global manufacturing capabilities to deliver industry-leading solutions to customers around the world.

American Power Conversion®
APC, a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time infrastructure, recently combined with MGE UPS SYSTEMS to form the Critical Power and Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric. Founded in 1981, 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 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. For more information on APC or MGE, please visit APC-MGE.com.

Avocent® is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure management solutions for enterprise data centers, small/medium businesses and branch offices.
Avocent was formed in 2000 from the merger of Apex and Cybex Computer Products Corporation, the world's two largest KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) switch manufacturers. Today, capitalizing on more than two decades of combined experience, product innovations and strategic acquisitions, Avocent is positioned as an international leader in advancing digital, embedded, wireless and mobile technologies.
In 2001, Avocent acquired Equinox Systems; 2C Computing was acquired in 2002; and Soronti, Inc. in 2003. Crystal Link Technologies, OSA Technologies, Inc., and Sonic Mobility, Inc. were acquired in 2004. Cyclades Corporation was acquired in 2006. Avocent has more than 1,300 employees; and sales, operations and R&D centers worldwide.
Branded products include local and remote switching, serial console servers, digital extension, embedded (IPMI), wireless, mobile and video display solutions. Avocent hardware and software combined provides customers with the power of centralized management. IT administrators can sit at a single console and control local and remote servers, network data center devices, and mobile, power and environmental appliances.
Avocent actively participates in the development of many industry standards and specifications that are integrated into Avocent products including silicon, firmware, remote access cards and blade server management modules.
Avocent has more than three dozen embedded design wins with industry leaders and maintains an OEM relationship with leading technology providers including HP, Dell, IBM, Intel and FSC. Thousands of client sites, including those of Fortune 100 companies, rely every day on Avocent technology. Customers include Microsoft Corp., Intel, HP, Dell, Time Warner, GE, Exxon Mobile, FedEx and Home Depot, among others.
Avocent stock is traded as AVCT on the NASDAQ Stock Market. More information on Avocent is available at www.avocent.com.

Novell is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. We are the only company that delivers an open source platform with integrated systems management, security, identity, and access management solutions. We also offer professional services to support our customers from the desktop to the data center. With these technologies and services, customers can easily manage both our platform and the other heterogeneous components of their IT infrastructures. Customers can deploy Novell technologies directly-or through our global network of partners-and be free to focus on the innovation and high-quality service that drive their businesses forward. Novell-This is Your Open Enterprise.
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