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Com One group

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COM One group
Company typePublic company
IndustryComputer networks
Founded1987
Headquarters
Cestas, Gironde
,
France
Key people
Jacques Saubade, Pres.
ProductsNetwork hardware
Number of employees
100
Websitewww.com-one.biz

COM One group (Listed in the Paris and Stuttgart stock exchanges from 1992 to 2005) was a manufacturer best known for its computer network adapters. The company was co-founded in 1987 by Jacques Saubade and Michel Petit and was headquartered in France. The name comes from the company's focus on modems (serial COM port was named COM1).

History

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  • 1987 The company started building analog PSTN modems.
  • 1990 company produces PCMCIA modems.
  • Mid 1990: the company focus on making multi function PC Card communication adapters (PSTN+GSM (data over GSM), then 3in1 PSTN+GSM+ISDN, then 4in1 PSTN+GSM+ISDN+Ethernet).

2000 group activities :

Most of the mobile products were sold as OEM provider for other companies (Toshiba France and Spain, Sony ITE Europe, IBM, Apple Europe, RFI Germany, Anycom, ...)

  • 2001: some employees of the industrial modules department leave to create Telecom Design[1]
  • 2003: Video security department sold to the company Atral[2]
  • 2005: COM One group closed.[3] The brand was bought by Baracoda company to focus it on Bluetooth end user products.[4]
  • 2007: Com One launched hardware to listen internet radios over Wi-Fi.[5]
  • 2008: the web sites (www.com1.fr and com-one.biz) are closed and the brand seems off.

Products, brands

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References

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  1. ^ "Telecom Design homepage". telecom-design.com.
  2. ^ "Atral homepage". atral.fr.
  3. ^ "Com One ne répond plus".
  4. ^ "La marque Com One va faire son come back".
  5. ^ "Baracoda and Com One Name Christophe Dissaux Executive Vice President for North America".
  6. ^ @max Terminal review. Archived 23 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine 2001
  7. ^ "Viewsurf homepage". viewsurf.com.
  8. ^ gadgetsCommentinShareCom One Phoenix WiFi/IP Radio Review. 2007
  9. ^ Orange LiveRadio Review Archived 24 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine 2008
  10. ^ "Liveradio Orange UK". Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
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