GarretCom acquires Dymec, increases power utility focus

Staff -- Control Engineering, 9/1/2006

GarrettCom Inc. announced it is acquiring Dymec Inc., broadening GarrettCom's industrial Ethernet product offerings, sales, and service channels to include Dymec's substation-hardened network products, with a specific concentration on the expanding market for power utility automation and surveillance networks.

Both GarrettCom and Dymec assert that they have aggressively addressed the needs for power utilities to deploy new technologies to increase the reliability and security of electric power generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure. The companies' merger of product development and customer support capabilities will bring added focus on the rugged, intelligent and secure networking requirements of this critical infrastructure sector. Financial terms were not disclosed. www.dymec.com, www.garrettcom.com