P-Com
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P-Com Corporation was a manufacturer of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radios in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The company banked on providing wireless local loop and bandwidth facilities to metropolitan and remote areas, using fixed antennae and Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology. At its peak, the company had operations at Campbell, California, Melbourne, Florida, the United Kingdom, and an active client presence in Argentina. The company stock had an IPO of $25 in the late 1990s: by the mid-2000s, this had become a penny stock, and several waves of layoffs decimated the workforce by that time. The company appears to have changed its name to Wave Wireless in 2005 and underwent a restructuring in July of 2006. Wave Wireless contracted with B&B Test Solutions to manufacture all of their SpeedLAN wireless products. In November, 2006, B&B Test Solutions acquired the AirPro Gold “carrier class” wireless product line from Wave Wireless. In August, 2007, B&B Test Solutions acquired all of the rights to the SpeedLAN product line from Wave Wireless, which appears to have ceased operations.
[edit] Trivia
The company could not settle on what the "P" stood for in the name. Since the company was formed in California, "Pacific" may have been a probable choice.
[edit] References (business)
- 1999 report of use of P-Com hardware by WinStar "since 1994"
- 2000 report of use of P-Com hardware in Argentina
- P-Com profile from ~2002
- Product announcement from 2004
- Pulsewan P-Com reseller services
- P-COM 155 OC-3 Radio
