Osicom Announces Merger.Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. firm Osicom Technologies said it would merge its Network Access subsidiary with Sync Research, an Irvine maker of computer networking
Computer networking is the engineering discipline concerned with communication between computer systems or devices. gear. Osicom and Sync shareholders will each own 50 percent of the combined company, to be called Entrada Networks. The new operation will be based in Irvine. No layoffs were planned. Osicom's Network Access subsidiary makes high-speed access devices for local and wide-area networks Wide-area networks Communication networks that are regional, nationwide, or worldwide in geographic area, with a minimum distance typical of that between major metropolitan areas. Smaller networks include metropolitan and local-area networks. . Sync makes computer networking devices, giving the combined company a stronger position to compete in new markets. |
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