American Power Conversion Tops Industry Award Lists During the First Quarter 2006

		Founded in 1981, American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) is a leading global provider of high availability systems for network-critical physical infrastructure. APC's comprehensive products and services, designed for both home and corporate environments, improve the availability, manageability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communication and industrial equipment of all sizes. Headquartered in West Kingston, Rhode Island, APC reported sales of $1.7 billion for the year ended December 31, 2004, and is a Fortune 1000, Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 Company. All trademarks are the property of their owners. (PRNewsFoto) WEST KINGSTON, RI UNITED STATES

WEST KINGSTON, R.I., April 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC), a leading global provider of end-to-end infrastructure availability solutions, received global recognition for its products and programs during the first quarter 2006. Publications worldwide continue to tout the innovation of APC's revolutionary InfraStruXure(R), as the architecture received six awards during the quarter. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20031003/NEAPCLOGO ) "Innovation, whether in the data center, at the desktop, in the channel, or with our training programs, highlighted the extensive list of awards presented to APC in the first quarter," said Aaron L. Davis, vice president worldwide marketing and communications. "Challenging ourselves to deliver superior products for our users, superior programs for our partners and superior processes for our organization drives the consistent high level of recognition APC receives." For the first time, Training magazine named APC to its "Top 100" list for excellence in APC's Field Service training. The Training Top 100 is the only ranking of companies that excel at developing human capital. The list is determined by assessing a range of qualitative and quantitative factors. APC is the only manufacturer of uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) and associated availability solutions included in the 2006 list. "APC and APC Global Services remain focused on bringing the best education possible to our employees, partners and customers," said Carl Cottuli, general manager of APC Global Services. "Through our customer loyalty training program, APC employees learn how to create delighted customers, and there is no more critical role in creating delighted APC customers than solving real network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI) problems for our customers." InfraStruXure, APC's revolutionary on-demand architecture for network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI), was a stand out in the first quarter, winning six awards. APC's new InfraStruXure 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. Also in the U.S., Electronic Products magazine named InfraStruXure a "Product of the Year" in its 30th Annual Product of the Year issue. Internationally, Top Business Magazine readers in Brazil named InfraStruXure a "Readers' Choice" for network physical infrastructure and, in Spain, Byte magazine reviewers presented InfraStruXure with its "Recommended" rating. Finally, several publications in Kenya identified InfraStruXure as a premiere solution for 2006. BusinessWeek and Commerce and Industry in Kenya named InfraStruXure "Best Innovation of the Year 2006" and "Best Infrastructure Solution of the Year 2006," respectively. At the other end of the product spectrum, such as addressing AV and desktop PC requirements, APC's S Type Power Conditioner with Battery Backup for AV applications was "Recommended" in the Audioholics Home Theater Systems Guide. APC's Biometric Password Manager won a Bronze Award for mobile security in SearchMobileComputer.com's "Products of the Year" awards, and the East & Central African Business Mirrow in Kenya recognized the Biometric Password Manager, naming it one of the publication's "Innovative Technology Solutions for 2005." Additionally, PC Consument in the Netherlands named APC's Back-UPS(R) CS350 a "Best Buy for Consumers." APC's leadership in the IT channels contributed to its selection for several prestigious awards during the quarter. For the thirteenth consecutive year, APC was named CRN "Channel Champion" as the top vendor in the UPS category. The CRN Channel Champion study measures overall business and technology integrator perceptions of vendor products and services. The survey is the largest and broadest-based technology integrator market study in the industry. The result is a premier resource used by business and technology integrators throughout the industry to evaluate vendors and their programs. And, for the third year in a row, APC was named CRN Channel Champion in the UPS category in Brazil. Additionally, VARBusiness and GovernmentVAR magazines recognized APC as one of North America's top information-technology (IT) vendors in terms of the partnership programs it offers to solution providers that sell its products and services to end users. This is the third consecutive year that VARBusiness magazine's annual program guide acknowledged APC for the commitment and strength of its programs for IT integrators, resellers and consultants. In addition, APC has received the prominent five-star recognition for GovernmentVAR magazines first annual program guide. In India, in its annual Channel Awards, Data Quest presented APC with the "Best UPS" award as well as Runner-up in the category recognizing "Commercial Terms" with the channel. Also in India, Electronics for You magazine presented APC with a "Best UPS" award. Finally, Collegegrad.com recognized APC as one of the Top 500 Entry Level Employers for 2006. Collegegrad.com is a leading entry level job search resource. Learn more about all of APC's award-winning products at http://www.apc.com or by calling 800-877-4080. About VARBusiness Magazine For the past 19 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the Solution Provider community. VARBusiness provides strategic insight for technology integrators through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design. Additional information about VARBusiness products, events and services, is available at its Web site, http://www.varbusiness.com. About GovernmentVAR GovernmentVAR -- a focused editorial initiative of CMP Media's VARBusiness, the biweekly magazine that covers the business of technology integration -- informs, educates and enlightens solution providers and integrators about IT product and service opportunities in the federal, state, local, education and health care branches of the government sector. GovernmentVAR is published 12 times yearly for the more than 64,000 VARBusiness subscribers who sell into vertical government markets. About CRN CRN drives sales by empowering VARs and technology integrators with the vital news and technology information they need to generate demand and grow revenue. CRN is the newspaper of record for the channel. For 24 years, VARs, Solution Providers, technology integrators and IT consultants have turned to CRN first each week for immediate and actionable information. CRN can be found on the Web at http://www.crn.com. About CMP Media (http://www.cmp.com) CMP Media is a marketing solutions company serving the technology, healthcare and lifestyles industries. Through its market-leading portfolio of trusted information brands, CMP Media has earned the confidence of more professionals and enthusiasts in these fields than any other media company. As a result, CMP is the premier provider of access, insight and actionable programs designed to connect sellers and buyers in each of these industries in ways that yield superior return on investment. CMP Media is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. 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 InfraStruXure(R), its revolutionary architecture for on-demand data centers, as well as physical threat management products through the company's NetBotz(R) 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. For more information contact: Investors: Debbie Hancock, APC director, investor relations, 401-789-5735, ext. 2994, debbie.hancock@apcc.com Media: Chet Lasell, APC public relations director, 800-788-2208, ext. 2693, chet.lasell@apcc.com