Com One group

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

 * 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 hardware 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 hardware (ove Wi-Fi) : the COM One Phoenix and the Orange Liveradio.