Avocent
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US0538931033 |
| founding | 2000 |
| Seat | Huntsville, Alabama , USA |
| management | Edwin L. Harper |
| Number of employees | 1,800 (2006) |
| sales | $ 625 million |
| Branch | IT infrastructure |
| Website | www.avocent.de |
Avocent Corporation ( NASDAQ : AVCT) is an IT infrastructure manufacturer headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama . Avocent was formed in 2000 through the merger of the world's two largest KVM switch manufacturers, Apex and Cybex Computer Products Corporation . In December 2008 the company had more than 1,800 employees worldwide, 45 of them in Germany , mainly in Ismaning . Since December 2009 Avocent has been owned by Emerson Electric Corporation USA .
Acquisitions
Avocent's most important acquisitions:
- 2001 - Equinox Systems
- 2002 - 2C Computing, focus on PCI bus extension
- 2003 - Soronti, Inc., manufacturer of KVM-over-IP technology
- 2004 - Crystal Link Technologies, OSA Technologies, Inc., and Sonic Mobility, Inc.
- 2006 - Cyclades Corporation and LANDesk Corporation .
- 2008 - Touchpaper Software plc, focus on IT service management
It is also worth mentioning that the then largest German KVM manufacturer and inventor of KVM-over-IP technology, Polycon , was bought by Cybex at the end of the 1990s and thus also merged into Avocent.