8-K

                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT
     Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934


Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)          April 9, 2007
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                               AVOCENT CORPORATION
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             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


       DELAWARE                     000-30575                    91-2032368
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 (State or other jurisdiction      (Commission                (IRS Employer
        of incorporation)          File Number)           Identification No.)


4991 CORPORATE DRIVE                                      HUNTSVILLE, AL   35805
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 (Address of principal executive offices)                       (Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code     (256) 430-4000
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                                       n/a
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         (Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)


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Item 7.01  Regulation FD Disclosure.

         On April 9, 2007, Avocent Corporation held a conference call discussing
its current revenue estimate for the first quarter of 2007. The prepared remarks
from that conference call are incorporated herein by reference and furnished as
Exhibit 99.6 hereto.

Item 9.01  Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

         Exhibit Number             Description of Exhibit
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         99.6                       Prepared Remarks from April 9, 2007
                                    Conference Call



                                   SIGNATURES
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                                        AVOCENT CORPORATION

Date:  April 9, 2007
                                   By:  /s/ Edward H. Blankenship
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                                        Edward H. Blankenship
                                        Senior Vice President of Finance and
                                        Chief Financial Officer



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Exhibit                    Description
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99.6                       Prepared Remarks from April 9, 2007 Conference Call

EX-99.6

                                                                    EXHIBIT 99.6


            Prepared Remarks for Avocent Corporation Conference Call
                  Monday, April 9, 2007, 7:00 a.m. Central time

         Following operator introduction of Samuel F. Saracino, Avocent
Corporation's Executive Vice President for Legal and Corporate Affairs, General
Counsel, and Secretary:

Mr. Saracino:
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Thank you and good morning. Welcome to Avocent Corporation's conference call.

I want to remind all participants that this call will contain forward-looking
statements. These include:

     o    statements regarding future business prospects,  capital spending, and
          economic conditions in general;

     o    statements  relating to  Avocent's  revenue and sales  (including  our
          current  revenue  estimate for the first  quarter of 2007),  our sales
          expectations, the seasonality of our business, our customers and their
          budgets, our channel partners, and our products,  product positioning,
          product pipeline, and product roadmaps;

     o    statements  relating to the integration of the  operations,  products,
          and  technologies  of the companies we have  acquired,  and the future
          revenue attributable to them; and

     o    statements about  virtualization  and other IT trends, the development
          and introduction of new products and technologies,  the size,  growth,
          and  leadership  of the  potential  markets  for  these  products  and
          technologies, and the timing of future revenue related to them.

These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations that involve
a number of risks and uncertainties, which could cause our actual results to
differ materially. These risk factors are described in our periodic SEC filings
(including our Annual Report on Form 10-K).

         As we have previously stated, Avocent Corporation intends to comply
fully with Regulation FD and we have adapted our investor relations practices
and procedures to do so. Any and all guidance given to analysts and investors
will be done only during this conference call--either in our prepared statements
or during the question and answer session that follows. Accordingly, we
encourage you to ask any questions you have concerning Avocent, or our business
or prospects, during this conference call since we will not be providing
additional material commentary or guidance during one-on-one conversations with
analysts or investors.

         I would now like to introduce John Cooper, Avocent Corporation's
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.  John....

Mr. Cooper:
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         Thanks, Sam. Good morning everyone and thank you for taking the time to
talk with us so early on the morning after Easter. I'm sure that you have been
able to read our press release by now so you know that our first quarter did not
turn out as we had anticipated. While the numbers speak for themselves, we
believe some explanation is appropriate to place things in the appropriate
context.

         After three consecutive years with the first quarter falling short of
our expectations, we must acknowledge the possibility that our business has
become more seasonal than our historical forecasting techniques take into
account. Given that we were slower than we expected across all significant areas
of our business--hardware and software, branded and OEM, divisions and
geography--one could conclude that our forecasting process set the bar higher
than was reasonable to expect. This proposition becomes even more reasonable
when you consider that the previous two years saw the last nine months be very
strong after slower than expected first quarters. So, I think changes in
seasonality do account for a meaningful part of the shortfall, but I also think
we need to consider "the rest of the story" as Paul Harvey would say.

         Let's remember two facts about our business that we have repeated many
times. First, our first quarter always starts slowly and we are always dependent
on a strong March to produce the results we expect. Second, we are a "book and
ship business", meaning that backlog normally is not significant and most orders
are shipped relatively soon after they are received.



         Bearing in mind that we are a "book and ship" business and may have set
our expectations too high, "the rest of the story" was that deals in our
pipeline did not close in March to the extent we had expected. The problem was
not the pipeline itself or the tone of business broadly. Simply put, we
experienced more delay from customers to actually close deals than we expected.

         I think a number of factors converged to create a pause in our customer
base during the first quarter. One obvious factor is the broad sluggishness in
capital spending which was much lower than expected in January and February. In
addition, a number of forecasts of capital spending have been lowered in recent
weeks, including some relating to the IT market. We have not seen budget
reductions in our customer base, so I suspect some of the delays we experienced
in March reflected a normal "wait and see" attitude amplified to some extent by
macro-economic conditions.

         Another factor some of you probably are wondering about is whether
virtualization is affecting our business. We are convinced that the
virtualization trend will be good for Avocent over the longer term as the
challenges of securely managing a more complex virtualized environment increase.
We have detailed virtualization roadmaps for both our Management Systems and
LANDesk divisions and expect to have several product announcements on that front
later in the year. I am aware that some of you believe virtualization has
reduced our growth to some extent in recent quarters by reducing the overall
number of servers shipped. However, even accepting that assertion as correct, we
saw no significant change in the pace of virtualization adoption during the
quarter so we don't believe virtualization by itself would account for the
delays we experienced. On the other hand, some subset of the organizations
trying to resolve their virtualization strategy may have put off purchasing
decisions pending a final decision on their approach.

         Another factor that we have heard mentioned that might lead to slowness
in the IT market is the introduction of Vista. Let me be clear that we
understand that Vista migration is still in its early stages and is not a broad
trend just yet. We also have said before that we think Vista will be good for
our business and the IT sector broadly. However, at the edges we may have seen
delays in overall IT buying by some organizations in the first quarter while
they decide on their strategy with respect to migration to Vista.

         There have been other, less obvious reasons proposed as to why things
paused in the first quarter. For example, we even heard a theory that a number
of companies put off purchasing decisions while they dealt with the challenges
of the early conversion to daylight savings time. When I first heard it, I
thought that one was a little far-fetched. However, when I checked with our IT
folks, they told me it was a challenge--not just until the initial conversion
but even until the regular switch-over date passed as they worried whether
something had been missed in the patches dealing with the problem. In some
cases, something seemingly as routine as this appears in hindsight often is
enough to create uncertainty and delay in normal activities.

         While we may never actually know the specific reasons, my own feeling
is that some combination of these factors caused the delays we experienced. The
good news at this point is that the deals we didn't close haven't gone away and
budgets have not been cancelled. Our pipeline remains strong. Our sales force
and our channel partners have a positive outlook on the market. While we will
not be in a position to provide guidance for the second quarter until our
regular earnings release conference call, the first roll-ups of sales
expectations look encouraging. Our products remain well positioned for the
markets we serve. So, while we are disappointed with our first quarter results,
we remain optimistic about our business prospects during 2007.

         Now, operator, if you are ready, we'll take questions from the
participants.