APC NetShelter Rack PDU Advanced Gen 2, Switched, 34.6kW, 3Phase, 43.5kW 400V 63A or 34.6kW 415V 60A, 560P6, 42 Outlet

Product Overview

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At £3,689 ex-VAT, this APC NetShelter Rack PDU Advanced Gen 2 is firmly in the “serious data centre / managed rack” bracket rather than something you’d buy on spec. The upside is what you actually pay for: switched outlets plus monitoring/management so you can control power to individual loads and troubleshoot without sending a tech sprinting with a toolkit. If you’re running anything mission‑critical in a shared rack (network gear, security appliances, lab environments where things get rebooted often), being able to isolate a single device and see what’s happening makes operations smoother and downtime cheaper.

Who should buy it: UK B2B resellers, MSPs, and IT teams supporting multiple customers/tenants, or anyone with more than a couple of racks who needs visibility and remote power control. It’s also a decent fit if you’re standardising your rack setup and want consistent management across sites. Who should *not* buy it: small offices or anyone just trying to “add power” to a few servers—if you don’t need switching/telemetry, you’ll usually get better value from simpler PDUs and spend the difference on redundancy, airflow, or actual UPS capacity. If your racks are mostly static and you never foresee needing remote reboots, this feels like paying for features you won’t use.