SynOptics

SynOptics Communications, Inc.
legal form	Corporation
founding	1985
resolution	1994
Reason for dissolution	fusion
Seat	Santa Clara (California)
management	Andrew K. Ludwick
Number of employees	approx. 1,200
Branch	network technology
	Status: 1994

SynOptics was a manufacturer of hubs that raised Ethernet over twisted pair cables to the level of the later 10BASE-T standard in order to slow down the advance of the token ring and sealed the withdrawal of coaxial cables from local area networks .

The company, whose name stands for Synoptics , emerged as a spin-off from Xerox , where Ethernet was originally invented as a bus for coaxial cables. In Xerox PARC engineer Ronald Schmidt was set to also Ethernet using fiber-optic cables allow. For this variant, he switched to the star topology and finally integrated the IBM cabling system of twisted pair cables for token ring to facilitate distribution.

However, Xerox stuck to the statement from AT&T that computer networks were only worth 10,000 connections and up and shied away from entering the market. AT&T created the later StarLAN around 1984 , which was Ethernet over twisted pair cables with a star topology, but with a maximum of 1 Mbit / s already too slow at that time. Xerox referred Schmidt to the possibility of self-employment and let him go with the patents and administrative clerk Andrew Ludwick.

In June 1985 the two founded their own company and towards the end of the year brought LattisNet onto the market as the first product : Ethernet with hubs for fiber optic cables , the IBM Cabling System, and 10 Mbit / s. In 1987 SynOptics expanded this to include cables without shielding in AT & T's Premises Distribution System . The SynOptics share price rose by around 50% every year.

In the summer of 1994, SynOptics merged with Wellfleet Communications to form Bay Networks . Ethernet via the mix of fiber optics and twisted pair cables with and without shielding introduced by SynOptics remained state of the art .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Wellfleet, SynOptics to Join Forces . In: Los Angeles Times . July 6, 1994. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Urs von Burg: The Triumph of Ethernet - Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN Standard . Stanford University Press , 2001, ISBN 0-8047-4094-1 , pp. 24, 170 ff . ( Excerpt online from Google [accessed on February 16, 2014]).
↑ ^a ^b The Ties That Bind Computers Also Can Liberate Companies . In: Los Angeles Times . July 11, 1993. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
↑ User lauds SynOptic system . In: Network World . Volume 4, No. 31 . International Data Group , August 3, 1987, p. 2 ( books.google.de [accessed on February 16, 2014]).

[LA_Times_94-1] Wellfleet, SynOptics to Join Forces . In: Los Angeles Times . July 6, 1994. Retrieved February 16, 2014.

[Stanford-2] Urs von Burg: The Triumph of Ethernet - Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN Standard . Stanford University Press , 2001, ISBN 0-8047-4094-1 , pp. 24, 170 ff . ( Excerpt online from Google [accessed on February 16, 2014]).

[LA_Times_93-3] The Ties That Bind Computers Also Can Liberate Companies . In: Los Angeles Times . July 11, 1993. Retrieved February 16, 2014.

[4] User lauds SynOptic system . In: Network World . Volume 4, No. 31 . International Data Group , August 3, 1987, p. 2 ( books.google.de [accessed on February 16, 2014]).