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 Alameda, California. It quickly became known for developing PhoneNET, which allowed early AppleTalk networks to be connected through ordinary telephone cables with RJ-11 jacks.[1][2][3]
Dual and single-port PhoneNET transceivers
Products[]
Renaming and acquisition[]
One of Farallon's successful product lines were its Netopia family of ISDN routers and services. In 1996, Farallon entered an agreement to acquire the Netopia trademark from a Wisconsin-based internet service provider and began operating as Netopia in the following year, with the original Farallon brand remaining as a division.[4] By 1999, the company had relocated to San Leandro, California.[5] On January 23, 2001, Proxim Wireless announced that it was acquiring Netopia for $223 million in stock.[6] Farallon began identifying itself as a division of Proxim,[7] but the merger was called off on December 28, 2001. The cancellation was blamed on Intel's abandonment of Proxim's HomeRF standard in favor of 802.11 Wi-Fi, causing Proxim to lose about 70% of its market value.[8] Netopia was eventually acquired by Motorola in February 2007 for $208 million.[9]
References[]
- ↑ Corporate Information, Farallon. Archived 1998-12-01.
- ↑ Reese Jones, LinkedIn. Accessed 2021-06-04.
- ↑ AppleTalk, LocalTalk, and PhoneNet by Adam Rosen, Low End Mac. 2014-04-26.
- ↑ Netopia is now Netphoria, Inc.!, Netphora. Archived 1996-12-18.
- ↑ Corporate Information, Farallon. Archived 1999-01-29.
- ↑ Proxim acquires Netopia by Dennis Sellers, Macworld. 2001-01-23.
- ↑ Corporate Background, Farallon. Archived 2001-06-20.
- ↑ Proxim, Netopia call off merger, CNET. 2002-01-02.
- ↑ Motorola completes Netopia acquisition by Peter Cohen, Macworld, 2007-02-06.
External links[]
- Farallon official website (archived 2001-07-02, 1997-12-10)
- Farallon Networking Cards Downloads at Proxim
- Farallon Communications Inc at Bloomberg
- Farallon Computing by Douglas Menuez at Stanford University Libraries
- Farallon Computing at the Higher Intellect Vintage Computing Wiki
- Netopia at Wikipedia
