Netopia
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Netopia is a company, headquartered in Emeryville
, California
, that produces a variety of broadband products including modems, routers, gateways, and Wi-Fi devices. The company also produces the NBBS (Netopia Broadband Server Software), as well as the Timbuktu
remote administration software. The company was originally founded as Farallon Computing and changed its name to Netopia in 1998. Farallon Computing originated PhoneNet
, which was an implementation of AppleTalk
over plain telephone lines.
Netopia was acquired by Motorola
in the first quarter of 2007.
ISPs known to use Netopia modems include:
Emeryville, California
Emeryville is a small city located in Alameda County, California, in the United States. It is located in a corridor between the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, extending to the shore of San Francisco Bay. Its proximity to San Francisco, the Bay Bridge, the University of California, Berkeley, and...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, that produces a variety of broadband products including modems, routers, gateways, and Wi-Fi devices. The company also produces the NBBS (Netopia Broadband Server Software), as well as the Timbuktu
Timbuktu (software)
Timbuktu is a remote control software product developed by WOS Datasystems. Remote control software allows a user to control another computer across the local network or the Internet, viewing its screen and using its keyboard and mouse as if he or she were sitting in front of it...
remote administration software. The company was originally founded as Farallon Computing and changed its name to Netopia in 1998. Farallon Computing originated PhoneNet
PhoneNet
PhoneNet was an implementation of the AppleTalk networking physical layer created by Farallon Computing . Instead of using expensive shielded twisted pair wiring as in Apple's LocalTalk implementation, PhoneNet uses standard four-conductor telephone patch cords and modular connectors, and is...
, which was an implementation of AppleTalk
AppleTalk
AppleTalk is a proprietary suite of protocols developed by Apple Inc. for networking computers. It was included in the original Macintosh released in 1984, but is now unsupported as of the release of Mac OS X v10.6 in 2009 in favor of TCP/IP networking...
over plain telephone lines.
Netopia was acquired by Motorola
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
in the first quarter of 2007.
ISPs known to use Netopia modems include:
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