Expanded portfolio strengthens Ardent’s ability to provide Vertiv’s critical power, UPS, and thermal management technologies to businesses and channel partners across the Philippines

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — October 2026, Ardent Networks Inc. is strengthening its distribution partnership with Vertiv, a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, by expanding its offering to include a broader range of Vertiv solutions in the Philippines. This expansion reinforces Ardent Networks’ commitment to providing businesses and channel partners with access to Vertiv’s comprehensive portfolio of critical power and thermal management technologies designed to support today’s increasingly demanding IT environments.

Through this expanded portfolio, Ardent Networks is bringing together Vertiv solutions covering critical power protection, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and advanced cooling and thermal management technologies. This enables organizations and channel partners to address a wider range of infrastructure requirements, from business-critical power protection to high-capacity power and thermal management solutions for demanding IT and data center environments.

The portfolio includes UPS systems catering to different power loads and application requirements, including Vertiv™ PowerUPS 9000, Vertiv™ Liebert® EXS, Vertiv™ Liebert® EXM2, Vertiv™ Liebert® APM, and Vertiv™ Liebert® EXL S1. It also includes thermal management systems such as the Vertiv™ Liebert® DM Series and Vertiv™ Liebert® CRV thermal management systems, and the Vertiv™ CoolChip Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) family for liquid cooling deployments.
The addition of these Vertiv solutions, including higher-capacity UPS systems and thermal management systems, further expands Ardent Networks’ ability to support businesses with evolving infrastructure needs. By offering a more comprehensive Vertiv portfolio, Ardent Networks enables distribution partners to access technologies suited to different customer requirements, business sizes, and IT infrastructure environments.

As digital infrastructure continues to evolve, organizations are facing increasing demands for uptime, efficiency, scalability, and operational resilience. Ardent Networks’ expanded Vertiv portfolio gives channel partners greater access to technologies that can help customers build and maintain infrastructure capable of supporting these demands, while strengthening opportunities to deliver solutions across a broader range of business requirements.

“Infrastructure has become a strategic business imperative, regardless of company size,” said Mr. Ricky Lopez, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Ardent Networks. “Our expanded distribution partnership with Vertiv strengthens our ability to provide channel partners with a more complete portfolio of critical digital infrastructure solutions, from reliable power protection and UPS systems to advanced cooling and thermal management technologies. As businesses across the Philippines accelerate digital transformation, we are giving our channel partners greater opportunities to address diverse customer requirements and build the infrastructure that supports long-term growth.”

The expanded portfolio also reinforces the long-standing collaboration between Ardent Networks and Vertiv, with both organizations focused on making reliable and efficient infrastructure technologies more accessible to a broader range of businesses and partners in the Philippine market.

“Highly reliable power and efficient thermal management solutions are essential to supporting today’s business-critical applications and tomorrow’s digital growth,” said Nico Echavarria, director of sales management and country head, Vertiv Philippines. “By expanding our collaboration with Ardent Networks, we are extending the reach of Vertiv’s end-to-end critical digital infrastructure portfolio and enabling channel partners to better serve customers with solutions designed for performance, resilience, and scalability. This partnership helps strengthen the infrastructure foundation businesses need to thrive in an increasingly digital world.”

The partnership expansion was marked by a ceremonial signing between Ardent Networks and Vertiv, representing the next chapter in their collaboration and a shared commitment to supporting partners and customers as infrastructure requirements continue to evolve.

With its expanded Vertiv distribution portfolio, Ardent Networks continues to strengthen its capabilities as a technology distributor, helping partners access a comprehensive range of Vertiv solutions, expertise, and opportunities needed to build infrastructure that is reliable today and ready for what’s next.

Ardent Networks is a leading technology distributor in the Philippines, enabling channel partners with innovative solutions across networking, cybersecurity, data center, cloud, and critical infrastructure technologies. Through its growing portfolio of global technology brands, Ardent Networks helps partners deliver solutions that address the evolving needs of businesses and organizations across the country.

For more information, visit Ardent Networks at www.ardentnetworks.com.ph

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.

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