General Datacomm Industries Inc. (GNRD)

Description

General Datacomm Industries Inc., through its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets high-speed network access and transport equipment to provide audio, video, and data transmissions. It offers DSLware and universal xDSL access systems to extend the copper loop, SNMP-based network management systems, IP dynamic mini-routers, TDM over IP gateways, routers and switches, modem security products, remote control/backup products for railroad wayside devices, broadband ATM/MPLS/hybrid/WAN solutions, remote network maintenance products, transportation and wireless connection application products, and blade adapters. It engages in implementations for distributed control systems, and supervisory control and data acquisition networks; and connectivity and internetworking for the healthcare industry. It offers USDA RUS accepted products, including hybrid multiservice access solutions, IP transport and switching products, integrated access devices to consolidate bandwidth requirements, modems/AES encryption products for high speed remote access, and CSUs/DSUs for narrowband and broadband access. It develops and sells infrastructure solutions to carriers and service providers of various types, including RBOCs, PTTs, IXCs, ILECs, IOCs, ISPs, and CLECs; and provides network installation, maintenance plan, extended warranty, operations, enterprise security management, network outsourcing, factory direct repair, and factory direct customer training services. The company's products enable network access, bandwidth management, multiprotocol label switching, voice over IP, Ethernet, and power over Ethernet. It serves carriers and service providers, governments, business enterprises, and commercial end-users in North America, Latin America, and internationally through distributors and resellers in the United States, Canada, Chile, Vietnam, the Russian Federation, and Hong Kong. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Naugatuck, Connecticut.