French computer network adapter manufacturer
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).
- 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.
- Bluetooths adapters (USB, PCMCIA).
- Bluetooths gateways (PSTN modems, ISDN).
- Internet appliances hardware (non-PC internet terminals). Brands : @max,[6] 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[7] in the 2000s (decade).
- Wireless access points, adapters, and connectivity products
- internet radio hardware (ove Wi-Fi) : the COM One Phoenix[8] and the Orange Liveradio.[9][10]