Netgear
| NETGEAR, Inc.
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| legal form | Public company (USA) |
| ISIN | US64111Q1040 |
| founding | January 8, 1996 |
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San Jose United States
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| management | Patrick CS Lo |
| Number of employees | 1008 (2018) |
| sales | $ 1.41 billion (2017) |
| Branch | electronics |
| Website | www.netgear.com |
Netgear ( English network equipment ) is a company based in Silicon Valley that designs and sells devices for data networks .
Netgear was founded as a subsidiary of Bay Networks for the purpose of expanding into the Small Office, Home Office division . In 1998 Nortel bought the parent company and left Netgear to the participating investment funds in February 2002 , followed by Netgear's IPO in 2003 . At the end of that year, Netgear had around 200 employees and sales of around $ 300 million.
Netgear distributes its products through a variety of commercial channels worldwide, including traditional retailers, online retailers, wholesalers and network operators. The company's shares have been listed and traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol NTGR since 2003 .
Products
Netgear's first products were Ethernet and ISDN . At the turn of the century, in addition to Ethernet, broadband internet access and WLAN became the essential technology for Netgear.
Netgear competes in the private user segment with Apple , Belkin , AVM , Devolo , Roku and Western Digital , and in the business segment with Buffalo , Dell , D-Link , Cisco , Huawei , QNAP , Seagate , Synology and Western Digital. As equipment suppliers for network operators, manufacturers such as D-Link, Motorola , Pace , Sagem , ZTE , ZyXEL and Huawei are competitors of Netgear.
Router and modem router
For different areas of application Netgear offers routers for internet connection, for the German market special ones with DSL modem for connections with VDSL and ADSL2 + . These have the additional identifier B in their name and are compatible according to Annex B and z. T. also Annex J . In 2013, Netgear offers WLAN products based on the IEEE 802.11 standard with speeds of up to 1300 Mbit / s. In 2012, Netgear offered the world's first router with 802.11AC technology.
Powerline
In addition to wireless connections, Netgear is also a manufacturer of powerline adapters. These use DLAN technology based on the widespread home plug standard with 500 Mbit / s gross transfer rate. According to IEEE 1901, the standard guarantees interoperability with other manufacturers such as Devolo or AVM .
Espionage allegations
In January 2014, heise Security discovered that a backdoor is built into Netgears routers and routers from other US router manufacturers that allows both the Internet service provider and third parties to read and manipulate all of the router's configuration data via the Internet, including among other things also the passwords for the administrator access of the router, the WLAN , the DSL access, proxy server and DynDNS services as well as passwords and certificates for VPNs . Accordingly, this data can be read out and manipulated by an undocumented service that is integrated into the router software. In addition, it is possible to redirect and fully monitor all of the router's data traffic. In response to this, Netgear released a security update on April 7, 2014 that supposedly closes the backdoor. The reverse engineer Eloi Vanderbeken found in an analysis, however, that the backdoor is still there and Netgear did not close it with the alleged security update, but only better hidden it and even expanded it. From the latter, Vanderbeken as well as heise Security and other security researchers conclude that the backdoor from Netgear and the other router manufacturers was not installed accidentally, but on purpose.
In retrospect, it became known that individual users in the Netgear support forum had pointed to signs of the backdoor since 2003, but Netgear completely ignored the requests. Based on some of the intelligence documents published by Edward Snowden as part of the espionage affair in 2013 , security researchers assume that the hidden backdoor was intentionally built in by Netgear and other router manufacturers in order to allow the security authorities full monitoring and full access to the routers at all times.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Form 10-K Annual Report . Netgear. March 5, 2004. Archived from the original on July 22, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
- ↑ a b Exhibit. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Netgear, Inc. Revenue per Employee (NTGR), Sales per Employee, current and historic results, rankings and more, Quarterly Fundamentals - CSIMarket. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Bay Networks' Netgear Line ties in SoHo Users . United States Department of Defense . July 8, 1996. Retrieved on June 28, 2014. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Netgear: A Hot IPO That Leaves Me Cold . In: Businessweek . May 11, 2003. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
- ↑ Jürgen Schmidt: Mysterious router backdoor: Many thousands of routers in Germany have a back door. heise.de, January 10, 2014, accessed on April 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Fabian Scherschel: Netgear closes the back door in the DGN1000 modem router. heise.de, April 7, 2014, accessed on April 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Ronald Eikenberg: Netgear update: Router backdoor just hidden? heise.de, April 22, 2014, accessed on April 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Eloi Vanderbeken: Another backdoor in my router: when Christmas is NOT enough! , April 18, 2014, accessed April 22, 2014.
- ↑ User "olivierh": Request from a user regarding the gap in the official Netgear support forum. (No longer available online.) Netgear-forum.com, December 27, 2003, archived from the original on April 24, 2014 ; Retrieved April 23, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Benedikt Fuest: Router companies repaired data leakage only to appear. welt.de, April 21, 2014, accessed April 23, 2014 .
