SynOptics
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SynOptics Communications was a Santa Clara, California-based early Ethernet vendor.
In the early 1990s, SynOptics produced a series of innovative products including early 10BASE-2 hubs, pre-standard 10BaseT (LattisNet), and 100BaseT products. They merged with Billerica, Massachusetts based Wellfleet Communications on July 6, 1994 in a US$1.16 Billion dollar deal to form Bay Networks which itself was acquired by Nortel in 1998.
Their headquarters at the time of the merger with Welfleet was in the pair of buildings at the Northeast corner of the intersection of Great America Parkway and Mission College Blvd in Santa Clara.
