We build products that benefit AV and IT experts with less downtime, fast and easy integration, and increased operational reliability.” The company philosophy is built into its mission statement, according to Philipp Gude: “Our guiding principle: To delight customers and save time integrating products for AV and IT professionals.

“Our solutions are designed and manufactured in Germany to meet customers’ quality requirements for AV and IT infrastructure performance,” he adds. “Our product portfolio includes smart power distribution units (PDUs), LAN sensors, and time servers,” says Philipp Gude. It’s a family-owned company that takes pride in creating quality products that optimize and expand infrastructures such as those found in networks, servers, and media racks. GUDE has been a manufacturer of reliable power and monitoring solutions for over 30 years. GUDE is the fastest-growing brand in the PDU industry for AV. “Crestron Home is one of the fastest growing brands in the smart home industry. There’s something else at work here, too, according to Philipp Gude, chief sales officer for the company that shares his name. Both Crestron and GUDE have their own high-performing engineering arms that design robust hardware and test that hardware in the most extreme conditions imaginable.” “GUDE has very robust power controllers built for the AV market,” says Jason Oster, one of Crestron’s product managers for residential solutions.Īccording to Oster, Crestron and GUDE have a key shared value: “Both companies have an unwavering commitment to quality. Enter GUDE and its line of switched and metered, German-made PDUs. That goes for PDUs - but until recently, the focus had been on solutions for the U.S.

But it is one of the most effective and important devices to run your smart home installation more safely: It protects your high-quality AV devices and solves problems in seconds.Ĭrestron has traditionally taken great pains to ensure that every piece of gear - and its components - sets the standard for reliability. It’s a piece of gear that’s, well, fundamentally invisible and doing its magic behind the scenes not top-of-mind at all. Even the most avid smart-home enthusiasts likely don’t ponder the features and specs of the PDU quietly humming away in their racks. A device like a power distribution unit (PDU) isn’t something a client will likely talk much about - it’s not the sexiest thing in the system.

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