AVM is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 electronics

Electronics

Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

 company founded in 1986 in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, that produces DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

Digital subscriber line is a family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. DSL originally stood for digital subscriber loop. In telecommunications marketing, the term DSL is widely understood to mean Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ,...

, ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network

Integrated Services Digital Network is a set of communications standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the traditional circuits of the public switched telephone network...

, Wireless

Wireless

Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...

 and VoIP products. It had sales of € 240 million in 2006 with 460 employees. It is the producer of the popular FRITZ!Box

FRITZ!Box

FRITZ!Box is a series of residential gateway devices from the German company AVM GmbH.-Functionality:There are several FRITZ!Box models available, but the most popular are the ones that combine DSL and SIP VoIP...

 series.

Products (Selection)

AVM is quite popular in Germany, but also has a few International products available. Currently AVM is offering the following products which are partly international available:

ISDN Cards

AVM A1-Card	passive ISDN card – the ancestor of the AVM FRITZ!Card
AVM FRITZ!Card	passive ISDN card
AVM B1-Card	active ISDN card (1 line, 2 channels)
AVM C2-Card	active ISDN card (2 lines, 4 channels)
AVM C4-Card	active ISDN card (4 lines, 8 channels)
AVM T1-Controller	active S2M controller (1 line, 30 channels)

DSL-Cards

FRITZ!Card DSL

combination of DSL- and ISDN-Card, by now available as second generation and also available in an external version (USB) and pure DSL-card

DSL Router

All FRITZ!Box devices come with an integrated carrier Modem for DSL, VDSL, ADSL, Cable or LTE with the exception of the FRITZ!Box Fon ATA, which has no integrated modem.

The different versions also offer various additional optional features as an USB port with storage and printer support, Wireless Access Point, Ethernet Switch and a VoIP, analogue and ISDN capable telephone system including a VoIP server, answering machine and connection to an existing ISDN or analogue phone line.

FRITZ!Box	DSL modem and router (PC connection via LAN or USB)
FRITZ!Box WLAN	DSL modem and router (PC connection via LAN and WLAN)
FRITZ!Box Fon	DSL modem and router (LAN) with telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines
FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN	DSL modem and router (LAN and WLAN) with telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines
FRITZ!Box Fon ATA	router (LAN) with telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines – the box, as the only FRITZ!Box, has to be connected to the internet via an external DSL or cable mode,
FRITZ!Box Fon international Version	DSL modem, router (LAN and WLAN) with telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines, supports the outside Germany more popular DSL standard Annex A Plain old telephone service Plain old telephone service is the voice-grade telephone service that remains the basic form of residential and small business service connection to the telephone network in many parts of the world....  on analogue phone networks.
FRITZ!Box VDSL	VDSL modem, router (LAN and WLAN) as well as a telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines
FRITZ!Box Cable	cable modem (Euro-Docsis-3-Norm), router (LAN and WLAN) as well as a telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines
FRITZ!Box LTE	LTE modem, router (LAN and WLAN) as well as a telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines

WLAN Products

FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick	WLAN USB stick for PCs
FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick N 2.4	WLAN USB stick for WLAN N up to 150 Mbit/s
FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick N	WLAN USB stick for WLAN N up to 300 Mbit/s
FRITZ!WLAN Repeater N/G	WLAN repeater for WLAN a/b/g and N up to 300 Mbit/s

System requirements:
500 MHz PC with Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP/XP64 or Linux

Other ISDN/DSL/networking products

FRITZ!-Software-Packet, included with several FRITZ!-Cards	several programs which support and extend the ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network Integrated Services Digital Network is a set of communications standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the traditional circuits of the public switched telephone network...  features of Fritz!-Card, e.g. a file transfer software (FRITZ!Data) or an ISDN monitoring tool (ISDNWatch)
KEN!ISDN / KEN!DSL / KEN!4 (ISDN and DSL functionality)	Web-Proxy Proxy server In computer networks, a proxy server is a server that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource available from a different server... - and E-Mail-Server with router, organizer and firewall Firewall (computing) A firewall is a device or set of devices designed to permit or deny network transmissions based upon a set of rules and is frequently used to protect networks from unauthorized access while permitting legitimate communications to pass....  features for small business and private customers.
AVM Access Server / NetWays/ISDN / Network Distributed ISDN	a VPN Virtual private network A virtual private network is a network that uses primarily public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide remote offices or traveling users access to a central organizational network....  server with corresponding client software (NetWays/ISDN, the „ISDN“ is of an historical nature, as it also works without ISDN), which can optionally integrate with Ken!.
VoIP Gateway 5188	a device with integrated router which integrates VoIP lines into existing ISDN telephone systems.
FRITZ! Media	Set-Top-Box for Video-on-Demand Video on demand Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand... -Systems over the internet for TV, also known as mediacenter
FRITZ! Mini	WLAN telephone, features: RSS-reader, E-Mail reader, MP3 and podcast streaming, can also be used as a remote for the FRITZ! Media. due to the high power consumption and resulting short battery runtime these product has been replaced by a new line of DECT devices
1&1 NetXXL powered by FRITZ!	special at T-ISDN XXL (as well as 1&1) targeted ISDN-Connector as OEM for two German telephone companies
BlueFRITZ!	ISDN phone system with Bluetooth-Access-Point.
FRITZ!Fon MT-C/MT-D/MT-F	DECT phones, features: RSS-reader, E-Mails reader, MP3 and podcast streaming.

External links

• AVM