Branch Offices

For many businesses, providing goods and services and building close customer relationships are vital to their bottom line. Customers expect consistency and a high-quality level of service. Therefore, building and maintaining a successful network of branch offices is key to gaining a competitive advantage. To accomplish this, businesses depend on technology to provide the most efficient, reliable voice and data communications within the main site and between branch sites. Consequently, the need for a highly available power infrastructure has never been greater. APC can help with a wide variety of power, rack and cooling solutions for the branch office.

Today, branch offices face many challenges, including voice/data convergence, legacy equipment upgrades, lowering support costs and integration with large corporate networks. They require adaptable, highly manageable solutions that provide the agility to respond to ever-changing IT and business environments. APC offers a wide range of end-to-end solutions that meet these requirements by providing cost-effective alternatives for all office needs. For the front office, APC provides UPS and surge protection solutions for PCs, workstations, point-of-sale equipment, printers, and fax/copy machines. For the back office, APC provides power, rack and cooling solutions with modular, scalable and redundant options. These solutions support a wide variety of IT devices, including servers, switches, hubs, gateways, routers and legacy PBX. Choose APC for the highest level of availability, remote manageability and compatibility for all your back office needs. To determine which APC solutions are right for your specific branch office applications, check out the APC comprehensive selection tools at http://www.apc.com/sizing/selectors.cfm, or call an APC specialist at 1-800-800-4APC for a free consultation.

APC Services

APC's world-class product based services, including Installation, On-Site and Extended Warranty Services, support your investment from the time of product purchase throughout the life of the hardware.

InfraStruXure Systems - Small Data Centers & Server Rooms

APC has NCPI solutions integrating power, cooling, management, security & services in a rack-optimized design targeted for all size IT environments.

The Seven Types of Power Problems

White Paper #18 describes the most common types of power disturbances, what can cause them, what they can do to your critical equipment, and how to safeguard your equipment, using the IEEE standards for describing power quality problems.