Putting Your Customers' Needs First

In the Beginning

Prior to 1992 when Thomas & Betts acquired American Electric, both companies were following similar paths in online communications. American Electric was supporting its distributor partners with a mainframe direct and dialup connectivity via the GEIS network while T&B offered similar capabilities via the IBM Advantis Network. Both systems were very primitive compared to the services available to our distributor partners today. Below is how our first integrated system looked in 1994…