SynOptics

SynOptics Communications, Inc.
Company typePublic
Nasdaq: SNPX
IndustryNetworking equipment
Founded1985
DefunctOctober 1994
FateMerged with Wellfleet Communications
SuccessorBay Networks
HeadquartersSanta Clara, California, US
Key people
Andrew K. Ludwick, Founder and CEO

SynOptics Communications, Inc., was a Santa Clara, California-based early computer network equipment vendor from 1985 until 1994. SynOptics popularized the concept of the modular Ethernet hub and high-speed Ethernet networking over copper twisted-pair and fiber optic cables.[1]

  1. ^ "Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on SynOptics Communications, Inc". Reference for business web site. Advameg, Inc. Retrieved June 11, 2011.