I'm curious if anyone might know what the future of the MGE line of UPS systems are. My concern is that they're dead-end since being merged into APC, and APC wanting to sell me APC stuff. The problem I face is that my facility was designed with separate equipment spaces, which is great for normal electrical gear that can be backed against a wall, but not so great for a product which is designed for the "everything goes in with your racks" mindset. Any insight would be appreciated. ~Seth
I'm curious if anyone might know what the future of the MGE line of UPS systems are. My concern is that they're dead-end since being merged into APC, and APC wanting to sell me APC stuff. The problem I face is that my facility was designed with separate equipment spaces, which is great for normal electrical gear that can be backed against a wall, but not so great for a product which is designed for the "everything goes in with your racks" mindset. Any insight would be appreciated.
~Seth
It looks like they are still available in the product selector on the APC website. http://www.apc.com/products/category.cfm?id=13 http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=361 http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=365 If you're wondering about long term someone from their sales dept. can probably tell you if they plan to keep the product line or discontinue it.
Or are you talking about Eaton's? http://www.eaton.com/EatonCom/SearchResults/CT_136576 Dixon, Justin a écrit :
I'm curious if anyone might know what the future of the MGE line of
UPS
systems are. My concern is that they're dead-end since being merged
into
APC, and APC wanting to sell me APC stuff. The problem I face is that
my
facility was designed with separate equipment spaces, which is great
for
normal electrical gear that can be backed against a wall, but not so great for a product which is designed for the "everything goes in with your racks" mindset. Any insight would be appreciated.
~Seth
It looks like they are still available in the product selector on the APC website.
http://www.apc.com/products/category.cfm?id=13 http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=361 http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=365
If you're wondering about long term someone from their sales dept. can probably tell you if they plan to keep the product line or discontinue it.
Or are you talking about Eaton's?
History (as I recall it). Schneider Electric bought MGE late 2003 Schneider Electric bought APC late 2006 (and merges APC/MGE product line, which has overlap) Schneider Electric sold "small" MGE product line to Eaton late 2007 (these are the office/small business type UPSs, as I recall, and overlapped the APC consumer/office/small business offerings). I do not know the plans regarding how Schneider Electric will deal with the remaining overlap in the high end APC/MGE UPS business.
We have 3 big Comet systems, and we're absolutely delighted with them. Their service is the best we receive from any vendor we deal with. On 13-Jul-09, at 3:42 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
I'm curious if anyone might know what the future of the MGE line of UPS systems are. My concern is that they're dead-end since being merged into APC, and APC wanting to sell me APC stuff. The problem I face is that my facility was designed with separate equipment spaces, which is great for normal electrical gear that can be backed against a wall, but not so great for a product which is designed for the "everything goes in with your racks" mindset. Any insight would be appreciated.
~Seth
While I still have a bunch of MGE Comet systems running, we did take one electrical room and replace them with Symmetra PX's, It did require some conduit work as they were moved from the wall to the center (but they are not as deep as a Comet) , to give the required cleareances. These are not your typical bottom of the rack units (although they come in their own racks). We have them equipped for 125KVA Love the Comet's, I would check with APC regarding product lifecycle. -----Original Message----- From: Seth Mattinen [mailto:sethm@rollernet.us] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 3:43 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: MGE UPS Systems I'm curious if anyone might know what the future of the MGE line of UPS systems are. My concern is that they're dead-end since being merged into APC, and APC wanting to sell me APC stuff. The problem I face is that my facility was designed with separate equipment spaces, which is great for normal electrical gear that can be backed against a wall, but not so great for a product which is designed for the "everything goes in with your racks" mindset. Any insight would be appreciated. ~Seth
We asked our local APC rep that exact question last week. He told us that the MGE line of UPSes fill a whole that APC doesn't have in their own lineup, and they will continue being sold as the product for folks absolutely require a typical double-conversion online UPS. As opposed to the 'hybrid' model of the Symmetra... It didn't sound to me like they were planning on getting rid of the MGE line at this point. - Erik -----Original Message----- From: Seth Mattinen [mailto:sethm@rollernet.us] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:43 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: MGE UPS Systems I'm curious if anyone might know what the future of the MGE line of UPS systems are. My concern is that they're dead-end since being merged into APC, and APC wanting to sell me APC stuff. The problem I face is that my facility was designed with separate equipment spaces, which is great for normal electrical gear that can be backed against a wall, but not so great for a product which is designed for the "everything goes in with your racks" mindset. Any insight would be appreciated. ~Seth
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