Avocent plans pan-India reach for its KVM switches

Mumbai

September 6th, 2007

US-based Avocent has announced a tie-up with Neoteric Infomatique to have a
pan-India presence through the latter's strong distribution network. Neoteric
will distribute Avocent's products such as local and remote switching, serial
console servers, digital extension, embedded (IPMI), service processor managers,
wireless, mobile and video display solutions.

Announcing the tie-up Floyd Britto, National Manager Channels, Avocent said,
"Today the KVM switch market as well as remote manageability of IT
Infrastructure is growing very rapidly in India and availability is the key to
gain mind and market share. This market is closely related to core
infrastructure needs and hence it is important for us to have a strong presence
across the country. Neoteric will help us achieve our objective to have all
India presence including Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities." Through this tie-up
Avocent is hoping to reach to a wider audience through Neoteric's distribution
network of 6000 channel partners.

Commenting on the tie-up, Neoteric spokesperson said, "Neoteric, with
its value added approach and go to market strategy is determined to provide the
best of enterprise integrated solutions to the channel through its enterprise
initiative and our partnership with Avocent would be next step in this
direction. As part of our value added solution offerings, we have already been
distributing certain enterprise product categories like Server, Storage,
Networking equipments; and Avocent category of products would aid in providing
the complete offering to the partners. We are pleased to have Avocent in our
portfolio and hope with this solution centric approach we will be able to meet
the exact demands of market and take our vendors to the next growth level"