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Netopia

Logo: Netopia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

American computer networking company

Farallon Computing, Inc., later Netopia, Inc., was an American computer networking company that produced a wide variety of products including bridges, repeaters and switches, and in its later Netopia incarnation, modems, routers, gateways, and Wi-Fi devices. The company also produced the NBBS (Netopia Broadband Server Software) and, as Farallon, Timbuktu remote administration software, as well as the MacRecorder, the first audio capture and manipulation products for the Macintosh (later sold to Macromedia).2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1986Founded1
  • Industrycomputer networking1
  • HeadquartersBerkeley1

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Farallon Computing, Inc., later Netopia, Inc., was an American computer networking company that produced a wide variety of products including bridges, repeaters and switches, and in its later Netopia incarnation, modems, routers, gateways, and Wi-Fi devices. The company also produced the NBBS (Netopia Broadband Server Software) and, as Farallon, Timbuktu remote administration software, as well as the MacRecorder, the first audio capture and manipulation products for the Macintosh (later sold to Macromedia).2

Corporate structure

Netopia is part of a group headed by Motorola. 11 entities, 6 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Timeline

  1. 2007Acquired Acquired by Motorola1
  2. 1986Founded Founded1

Sources

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