Corporate Profile for Xircom Inc., dated Sept. 27, 1996.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Co., Prodigy, Comtex and many others. -0- Published Date: Sept. 27, 1996 Company Name: Xircom Inc.
Address: 2300 Corporate Center Drive
Thousand Oaks, Calif. 93120
Main Telephone Number: 805/376-9300 Chief Executive Officer: Dirk Gates Investor Relations Contact: Kristi Cushing Business number: 805/376-4968 Public Relations Contact: Daphne Page Business number: 805/376-6929 URL Address: http://www.xircom.com Trading Symbol: XIRC Industry: Computer networks Company description: Founded in 1988, Xircom is the leading manufacturer of PC Card communications products for connecting mobile and remote portable computer users to corporate networks, the Internet and other on-line services from a wide variety of locations. Since its first product introduction, Xircom has rapidly expanded its innovative solutions through clever integration of standards-based technologies. These efforts produced the first PC Card LAN adapter Same as network adapter. , the first PC Card combining LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. access and modem functionality, and the first integration of full-duplex PC Card. Additionally, Xircom is the first major vendor to ship, in volume, adapters that connect portable PCs to Fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. networks. Xircom has shipped more than 2.5 million adapters for portable PCs. Today, the company offers a broad range of adapters that work with Ethernet and Token Ring topologies, different cabling methods, and software drivers supporting 50 network operating systems and communications protocols. Xircom posted sales of more than $10 million in its second year of operation. The company completed its initial public offering in March 1992; its stock is publicly traded on the NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on under the symbol XIRC. The company reported revenues of $127 million for its fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1995. Revenues for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1996, are estimated at $195 million. CONTACT: Xircom Inc. |
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