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Type
  
Public

Key people
  
Jacques Saubade, Pres.

Website
  
www.com-one.biz

Founded
  
1987

Industry
  
Computer Networks

Products
  
Network hardware

Headquarters
  
Cestas

Number of employees
  
100

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).

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History

  • 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 :

  • Mobile computing (high-speed data transmission devices for wire & wireless : PSTN, ISDN, LAN (Ethernet), GSM, GPRS, ADSL).
  • Industrial modules (same as below)
  • Video Security
  • Internet appliances hardware (non-PC internet terminals. Brand: atMax, @max)

    • 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
  • 2003: Video security department sold to the company Atral
  • 2005: COM One group closed. The brand was bought by Baracoda company to focus it on Bluetooth end user products.
  • 2007: Com One launched hardwares to listen internet radios over Wi-Fi.
  • 2008: the web sites (www.com1.fr and com-one.biz) are closed and the brand seems off.

    • Products, brands

  • Bluetooths adapters (USB, PCMCIA).
  • Bluetooths gateways (PSTN modems, ISDN).
  • Internet appliances hardware (non-PC internet terminals). Brands : @max, Neomax.
  • ISDNs adapters (Serial, USB, PCMCIA).
  • Local area network interface cards (PCMCIA).
  • Modems PSTN (Serial, USB, PCMCIA).
  • Video security : Viewcom products range, remote video surveillance products with digital video recorder. Used for example by the web site Viewsurf.com in the 2000s (decade).
  • Wireless access points, adapters, and connectivity products
  • internet radio hardwares (ove Wi-Fi) : the COM One Phoenix and the Orange Liveradio ยท .

    • References

    Com One group Wikipedia
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