Avocent Corporation was an information-technology products manufacturer headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama.

Avocent formed in 2000 from the merger of the world's two largest manufacturers of KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) equipment, Apex and Cybex Computer Products Corporation.

On October 6, 2009, it was announced that Emerson Electric would buy Avocent for $1.2 billion USD.

[1] On August 2, 2016, Emerson announced an agreement to sell Network Power to Platinum Equity.

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