Com One group

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COM One group
Type	Public
Founded	1987
Headquarters	Cestas, Gironde, France
Key people	Jacques Saubade, Pres.
Industry	Computer Networks
Products	Network hardware
Employees	100
Website	www.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).

[edit] History

1987 The company started building analog PSTN modems.

1990 company produces PCMCIA modems.

mid 1990: the company focus on multi function PCMCIA adapters (PSTN+GSM, then 3in1 PSTN+GSM+ISDN, then 4in1 PSTN+GSM+ISDN+Ethernet).

2000 group activities :

Mobile computing (high-speed telecom devices for wire & wireless : PSTN, ISDN, LAN, GSM, GPRS, ADSL).
Industrial modules
Video Security
Internet appliances (non-PC internet terminals)

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 the liveradio and the Phoenix Wi-Fi radio, both Wireless IP radio devices.