Farallon

Farallon Communications, Inc. (later known as Netopia) was an early manufacturer of networking products and peripherals for the Macintosh and Newton platforms.

History
The company was founded in 1986 by Reese M. Jones as Farallon Computing and was headquartered in, California. It quickly became known for developing PhoneNET, which allowed early AppleTalk networks to be connected through ordinary telephone cables with jacks.



Products

 * AirDock
 * EtherMac
 * EtherWave
 * MacRecorder
 * PhoneNET
 * SoundEdit
 * Timbuktu

Renaming and acquisition
One of Farallon's successful product lines were its Netopia family of routers and services. In 1996, Farallon entered an agreement to acquire the Netopia trademark from a -based internet service provider and began operating as Netopia in the following year, with the original Farallon brand remaining as a division. By 1999, the company had relocated to. On January 23, 2001, announced that it was acquiring Netopia for $223 million in stock. Farallon began identifying itself as a division of Proxim, but the merger was called off on December 28, 2001. The cancellation was blamed on Intel's abandonment of Proxim's standard in favor of 802.11 Wi-Fi, causing Proxim to lose about 70% of its market value. Netopia was eventually acquired by Motorola in February 2007 for $208 million.