U.S. Robotics, Inc.
123 W. Washington, Chicago, IL (1984)
8100 N. McCormick Boulevard, Skokie, IL 60076-2920 (1989)

USR - Division of Unicom Global
1300 E. Woodfield Road, Suite 506, Schaumburg, IL 60713-5446 (2018)

Wikipedia:
U.S. Robotics Corporation, often called USR, is a company that produces USRobotics computer modems and related products.

During the 1990s it became a major consumer brand with its Sportster line.

It is one of the few companies left in the modem market today, and now employs about 125 people worldwide.

U.S. Robotics ist ein Unternehmen der IT/TK-Branche, das 1976 in den Vereinigten Staaten gegründet wurde. Der Hauptsitz des Unternehmens befindet sich in Schaumburg, Illinois.

U.S. Robotics war ein Wegbereiter auf dem Gebiet der Entwicklung und Herstellung von Modems.

Heute ist das Unternehmen weiterhin ein Anbieter von Netzwerkprodukten. Neben Modems werden Produkte für den Bereich DSL/Breitband, WLAN und für die Vernetzung von Privatanwendern und kleinen Unternehmen hergestellt.

Wikipedia:
USR was founded in 1976 in Chicago, Illinois (and later moved to Skokie, Illinois), by a group of entrepreneurs, including Casey Cowell, who served as CEO for most of the company's history, and Paul Collard who designed modems into the mid-1980s.

USR was one of many companies to offer dial-up modems for personal computers. Prior to the development of standards such as the V.32 family of protocols, USR introduced its own HST (High-Speed Transfer) protocol in 1986, which operated at 9600 bit/s (bits per second). In 1989 HST was expanded to 14.4 kbit/s, 16.8 kbit/s in 1992, and finally to 21 kbit/s and 24 kbit/s.

With the reduced usage of analog or voiceband modems in North America in the early 21st century, USR began branching out into new markets. The company purchased Palm, Inc. for its PalmPilot PDA, but was itself purchased by 3Com soon after. 3Com spun off USR again in 2000, keeping Palm and returning USR to the now much smaller modem market. After 2004 the company is formally known as USR.

Commoditization

After acquiring Palm, Inc., in 1995, USR merged with 3Com Corporation in June 1997. It was then recreated as a spin-off of 3Com in June 2000, assuming 3Com's entire client modem business except for the Palm-related portion, which itself had been spun off with Palm three months earlier. Other portions of the original USR remained part of 3Com as the CommWorks Corporation. USR then quickly built up its device portfolio, including not only traditional dial-up modems, but also wired- and wireless-networking components.

USR was acquired by private equity firm Platinum Equity for an undisclosed amount of cash in 2005, believed to be between US$30 million and US$50 million.

By 2010 the company was focused only on the traditional modem business.

In 2013, USR was acquired by UNICOM Global.

1976 Gründung von U.S. Robotics.

1995 U.S. Robotics kauft die Firma Palm. Inc. Hersteller der Handheld-Serie Palm.

1997 wird U.S. Robotics wiederum vom Unternehmen 3Com aufgekauft.

2000 U.S. Robotics wird wieder selbständig, ebenfalls die Palm-Abteilung.

2005 U.S. Robotics wird von Platinum Equity aufgekauft.

2013 U.S. Robotics wird von UNICOM Systems übernommen.