DirectNET Achieves Platinum Elite VAR Status with Avocent Once Again
Avocent Corporation has applauded DirectNET for once again achieving the Platinum Elite VAR status for a second consecutive year.

/Computer Trades News Articles/ - Broomfield, CO - January 23, 2005: Avocent Corporation, the nation's largest supplier of enterprise KVM and connectivity solutions, has applauded DirectNET, a National Value-Added Reseller (VAR) of KVM Switch Solutions, for once again achieving the Platinum Elite VAR status for a second consecutive year. The Platinum Elite VAR status is only given to the top five VARs who generate the most sales for Avocent within a given year.

"On behalf of Avocent, I would like to congratulate DirectNET on their continued growth and record sales year for our Take Command solutions" said Dudley DeVore, VP of Branded Sales America at Avocent. "Clearly DirectNET's in-depth technical knowledge and superb customer service has paid off in 2004 and we expect even greater returns in 2005."

"The credit should go to both our enterprise KVM division, 42U, and our KVM ecommerce store, KVM Switches Online," said Alan Mamane, CEO of DirectNET. "Our web sites, www.42u.com and www.kvm-switches-online.com provide the most current information on the KVM industry and our sales engineers are trained and certified regularly on the latest KVM and datacenter technology. This unparalleled level of expertise easily sets us apart from our competition."

"We are pleased with our Avocent sales performance this year." said Jon Inaba, Director of Sales and Operations for the 42U enterprise KVM division. "Avocent continues to provide innovative KVM solutions to the datacenter. With the newly released DSView 3.0 Datacenter Management Software and expansion of the DS Series KVM over IP product lines, we are confident that we will see greater growth in our enterprise Avocent sales for 2005."

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