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.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.
===Products===
*AirDock
*EtherMac
*EtherWave
*MacRecorder
*PhoneNET
*SoundEdit
*Timbuktu
===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 -based internet service provider and began operating as Netopia in the following year, with the original Farallon brand remaining as a division.Netopia is now Netphoria, Inc.!, Netphora. Archived 1996-12-18. By 1999, the company had relocated to .Corporate Information, Farallon. Archived 1999-01-29. On January 23, 2001, announced that it was acquiring Netopia for $223 million in stock.Proxim acquires Netopia by Dennis Sellers, Macworld. 2001-01-23. Farallon began identifying itself as a division of Proxim,Corporate Background, Farallon. Archived 2001-06-20. 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.Proxim, Netopia call off merger, CNET. 2002-01-02. Netopia was eventually acquired by Motorola in February 2007 for $208 million.Motorola completes Netopia acquisition by Peter Cohen, Macworld, 2007-02-06.	
==References==
==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
* at Wikipedia
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