# P-Com

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thumb|right|Corporate logo
thumb|right|Tel-Link 23 Indoor Unit installed in a 19-inch rack

'''P-Com Corporation''' was a [manufacturer](/source/manufacturer) of [point-to-point](/source/Point-to-point_(telecommunications)) and [point-to-multipoint](/source/point-to-multipoint) radios in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The company banked on providing [wireless local loop](/source/wireless_local_loop) and bandwidth facilities to [metropolitan](/source/metropolitan_area) and remote areas, using fixed [antennas](/source/Antenna_(radio)) and [Asynchronous Transfer Mode](/source/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode) technology. At its peak, the company had operations at [Campbell, California](/source/Campbell%2C_California), [Melbourne, Florida](/source/Melbourne%2C_Florida), the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom), and an active client presence in [Argentina](/source/Argentina). The company stock had an [IPO](/source/initial_public_offering) of $25 in the late 1990s: by the mid-2000s, this had become a [penny stock](/source/penny_stock), and several waves of layoffs decimated the workforce by that time.

P-Com acquired the wireless division of Cylink Corporation in early 1998, rebranding as P-Com Wireless Access Group, and incorporating the M100 and M400 products of its earlier acquisition ACS.

A number of UK staff, including senior management and engineers left P-Com in 2002 to set up rival Fresnel Microwave Systems. Fresnel was later purchased by Centerpoint Corporation.

Faced with fierce competition to its millimeter-wave point-to-point products, the company re-focused itself on the license-free product line and the expertise it had acquired from Cylink in 1998. Rival Wave Wireless of Sarasota FL was purchased in 2005, and P-Com restructured and rebranded itself Wave Wireless in 2005.

Wave Wireless contracted with B&B Test Solutions to manufacture all of their SpeedLAN wireless products.  In November, 2006, B&B Test Solutions acquired the AirPro Gold “carrier class” wireless product line from Wave Wireless. In August, 2007, B&B Test Solutions acquired all of the rights to the SpeedLAN product line from Wave Wireless, which appears to have ceased operations.

In October 2009, B&B Test Solutions/Wave Wireless were acquired by Mountain Optech, who have then changed their name to Mountain Secure Systems.

== Trivia ==
The "P" stood for "Personal" in the name. The company was formed in California (fact: 7/09).

== References==
'''Business'''
*[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HDN/is_1999_Jan_7/ai_53543734 1999 report of use of P-Com hardware by WinStar "since 1994"]
*[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_April_26/ai_61689822 2000 report of use of P-Com hardware in Argentina]
*[http://www.business.com/directory/media_and_entertainment/television/equipment_and_supplies/p-com_inc/profile/ P-Com profile from ~2002]
*[http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/apr/1033822.htm Product announcement from 2004]
*[http://www.pulsewan.com/wireless/pcom/index_pcom.htm Pulsewan P-Com reseller services]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080803182801/http://www.launch3telecom.com/tel155oc-3.html P-COM 155 OC-3 Radio]

'''Amateur radio'''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070622204528/http://www.nr6ca.org/pcommtech.html Amateur Radio use of P-Com hardware in Nevada]
*[http://www.ham-radio.com/sbms/24GHz/ 24 GHz SSB Conversion of the P-Com Tel-Link 23 GHz ODU]

'''Footnotes'''
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Category:Networking companies of the United States
Category:Defunct computer companies of the United States
Category:Defunct computer hardware companies
Category:Defunct networking companies
Category:Networking hardware companies

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