AVM GmbH

AVM GmbH
Type Private
Founded 1986
Headquarters Berlin
Revenue Euro 280 Mi.
Employees 460 (2006)
Website http://www.avm.de

AVM is a German electronics company founded in 1986 in Berlin, that produces DSL, ISDN, Wireless and VoIP products. It had sales of € 240 million in 2006 with 460 employees. It is the producer of the popular FRITZ!Box series.

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Products (Selection)

AVM is quite popular in Germany, but also has a few International products available. Currently AVM is offering the following products which are partly international available:

ISDN Cards

AVM A1-Card passive ISDN card – the ancestor of the AVM FRITZ!Card
AVM FRITZ!Card passive ISDN card
AVM B1-Card active ISDN card (1 line, 2 channels)
AVM C2-Card active ISDN card (2 lines, 4 channels)
AVM C4-Card active ISDN card (4 lines, 8 channels)
AVM T1-Controller active S2M controller (1 line, 30 channels)

DSL-Cards

FRITZ!Card DSL combination of DSL- and ISDN-Card, by now available as second generation and also available in an external version (USB) and pure DSL-card

DSL Router

All FRITZ!Box devices come with an integrated carrier Modem for DSL, VDSL, ADSL, Cable or LTE with the exception of the FRITZ!Box Fon ATA, which has no integrated modem.

The different versions also offer various additional optional features as an USB port with storage and printer support, Wireless Access Point, Ethernet Switch and a VoIP, analogue and ISDN capable telephone system including a VoIP server, answering machine and connection to an existing ISDN or analogue phone line.

FRITZ!Box DSL modem and router (PC connection via LAN or USB)
FRITZ!Box WLAN DSL modem and router (PC connection via LAN and WLAN)
FRITZ!Box Fon DSL modem and router (LAN) with telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines
FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN DSL modem and router (LAN and WLAN) with telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines
FRITZ!Box Fon ATA router (LAN) with telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines – the box, as the only FRITZ!Box, has to be connected to the internet via an external DSL or cable mode,
FRITZ!Box Fon
international Version
DSL modem, router (LAN and WLAN) with telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines, supports the outside Germany more popular DSL standard Annex A on analogue phone networks.
FRITZ!Box VDSL VDSL modem, router (LAN and WLAN) as well as a telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines
FRITZ!Box Cable cable modem (Euro-Docsis-3-Norm), router (LAN and WLAN) as well as a telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines
FRITZ!Box LTE LTE modem, router (LAN and WLAN) as well as a telephone system for VoIP and traditional phone lines

WLAN Products

FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick WLAN USB stick for PCs
FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick N 2.4 WLAN USB stick for WLAN N up to 150 Mbit/s
FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick N WLAN USB stick for WLAN N up to 300 Mbit/s
FRITZ!WLAN Repeater N/G WLAN repeater for WLAN a/b/g and N up to 300 Mbit/s

System requirements: 500 MHz PC with Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP/XP64 or Linux

Other ISDN/DSL/networking products

FRITZ!-Software-Packet, included with several FRITZ!-Cards several programs which support and extend the ISDN features of Fritz!-Card, e.g. a file transfer software (FRITZ!Data) or an ISDN monitoring tool (ISDNWatch)
KEN!ISDN / KEN!DSL / KEN!4 (ISDN and DSL functionality) Web-Proxy- and E-Mail-Server with router, organizer and firewall features for small business and private customers.
AVM Access Server / NetWays/ISDN / Network Distributed ISDN a VPN server with corresponding client software (NetWays/ISDN, the „ISDN“ is of an historical nature, as it also works without ISDN), which can optionally integrate with Ken!.
VoIP Gateway 5188 a device with integrated router which integrates VoIP lines into existing ISDN telephone systems.
FRITZ! Media Set-Top-Box for Video-on-Demand-Systems over the internet for TV, also known as mediacenter
FRITZ! Mini WLAN telephone, features: RSS-reader, E-Mail reader, MP3 and podcast streaming, can also be used as a remote for the FRITZ! Media. due to the high power consumption and resulting short battery runtime these product has been replaced by a new line of DECT devices
1&1 NetXXL powered by FRITZ! special at T-ISDN XXL (as well as 1&1) targeted ISDN-Connector as OEM for two German telephone companies
BlueFRITZ! ISDN phone system with Bluetooth-Access-Point.
FRITZ!Fon MT-C/MT-D/MT-F DECT phones, features: RSS-reader, E-Mails reader, MP3 and podcast streaming.

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