Accton Technology Corporation () is a Taiwanese company in the electronics industry that primarily engages in the development and manufacture of networking and communication solutions, as an

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(OEM) or

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(ODM) partner. Accton has manufacturing plants in both

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(

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) and

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) and a total workforce of more than 5200 employees worldwide.

History

Accton was founded on February 9, 1988. Accton filled its IPO in November 1995.

Acquisitions

1999 – Emitcom
2000 – Minority stake in

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modem division from

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(with NatSteel from

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)
2010 – Mototech
2015 – SMC Networks

Joint ventures

2002 – Accton and SVA Group China – formed SVA Accton
2003 – Accton and Philips – formed Arcadyan Technology
2011 – Accton and Alvarion – formed AWB

Exits

2004 – ADMTek Inc to

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for €80 million
2006 – 69% of Arcadyan Technology to Compal for US$30 million

Services

OEM of networking gear

ODM of networking gear

Design and Development
Supply Chain
Manufacturing

Finance

During the year 2009, Accton obtained approximately 69% and 14% of its total revenue from switches and WLAN products, respectively. During the year 2017, Accton obtained approximately 68% and 12% out of its total revenue from network switches and network appliances. Network access came third with 9%, followed by 5% in

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networking and 1% of the revenue coming from Broadband networking gear. Total sales for 2018 increased 18.23 percent annually to NT$43.09 billion (over USD$1.3 billion) with

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, and

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weighing in.

Corporate Affairs

Management

Accton's key management personnel consists of: * Fai-Long Kuo (

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) * Edgar Masri (

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and President) * Ji-Shang Yu (Senior Vice President of Manufacturing) * Michael K.T. Lee (Senior Vice President of R&D) * Meen-Ron Lin (

Chief Financial Officer The chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization that is assigned the primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and fina ...

) * Melody Chiang (Senior Vice President of Product Development & Management) * Jackal Lee (Senior Vice President of Product Supply & Demand) * Phillip Wang (Vice President) * Hin-Soon Liew (Vice President)

Board of Directors

Accton's board consists of the following directors: * Fai-Long Kuo (Chairman at Accton, former Executive Vice President at Accton) * Meen-Ron Lin (Director at Accton, former Manager at Capital Securities Corporation) * Heng-Yi Tu (Director at Accton, Chairman of Wan Yuan Textiles, Chung Tai Transportation, and Ting Sing Co, Director of Ve Wong Corporation, SECOM, South China Insurance, and The Ambassador Hotel) * Kuo-Hsiu Huang (Director at Accton, President of Accton Technology China) *

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(Independent Director at Accton, Chairman of TrendForce Corporation, director of United Microelectronics Corporation, and

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Telecommunications) * Chih-Ping Chang (Independent Director at Accton, CEO of

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Anti-Drug Educational Foundation and former director of the anti-money laundering division at Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau) * Shuh Chen (Independent Director at Accton, Chairman of Central Investment Holding Corporation and former Chairman of Taipei Exchange and Administrative Deputy Minister of Ministry of Finance) * Shiou-Ling Lin (Independent Director at Accton, Director of Cathay Financial Holdings Co., Executive Director of Tong Lung Metals Co., Director of ETurboTouch, and of Counsel of Lee and Li Attorneys-at-Law) *

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(Independent Director at Accton, supreme consultant of the

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oration and former Minister of the Interior, Secretary-General of

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, Deputy Mayor of

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City, Administrative Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications, and Deputy Mayor of Taipei County)

Products

* CheetaHub Classic 2040, 1

10BASE2 10BASE2 (also known as cheapernet, thin Ethernet, thinnet, and thinwire) is a variant of Ethernet that uses thin coaxial cable terminated with BNC connectors to build a local area network. During the mid to late 1980s this was the domin ...

/ BNC, 8-port 10BASET, 1990s * CheetaHub Classic 2041, 1

/ BNC, 1-port AUI, 16-port 10BASET, 1990s * CheetahSwitch Workgroup-3002A,

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* CheetahSwitch Workgroup-3008A,

* CheetahSwitch Workgroup-3016A,

* EtherHub 5st 5-port 10BASET, 1990s * EtherHub 8Mini: 1

/ BNC, 8-port 10BASET, 1990s * EtherHub 8e: 1

/ BNC, 1-port Attachment_Unit_Interface, 8-port 10BASET, 1990s * EtherHub 8s: 1

/ BNC, 8-port 10BASET, 1990s * EtherHub 12R: 1

/ BNC, 1-port Attachment_Unit_Interface, 12-port 10BASET, 1990s * EtherHub 12S: 1

/ BNC, 1-port Attachment_Unit_Interface, 12-port 10BASET, 1990s * EtherHub 16: 1

/ BNC, 16-port 10BASET, 1990s * EtherHub-16i: 16-port 10BASET, 1990s * EtherHub 16S: 1

/ BNC, 16-port 10BASET, 1990s * EtherHub 24s: 1

/ BNC, 24-port 10BASET, 1990s * EtherCoax-98X (EN1668C) * EtherCombo-98X (EN1668) * EtherPair-16 (EN1658-P) * EtherPair-98X (EN1668T) * EtherCoax-16 (EN1642) * EtherCoax-16 (EN1652) * EtherCoax-16 (EN1662) * EtherCombo-16 (EN1640) * EtherCombo-16 (EN1650) * EtherCombo-16 (EN1660) * EtherDuo-16 (EN1657-P) * EtherPair-16 (EN1661) * EtherPair16-16T * EtherPair-NE2 (EN1622) * Fast EtherHub 12se: 12 -port

, 1990s * Fast Ethercard

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, 1990s * EN1660-005

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10BASET

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, 1990s * EN1660-005

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/ AUI

, 1990s * EN1207B-TX PCI

, 1990s * EN1207D-TX PCI

, 1990s * MR3202A

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* Venus 5-port

, 1990s

Recognition

2018 – Outstanding Work Environment in Gender Equality from the

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Bureau
2018 – National Quality Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Presented by President

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)

CSIRO patent issues

The Australian

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(CSIRO) holds the patent to a component of the

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standard. This component is also part of other protocols marketed under the

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trademark. The IEEE requested from the CSIRO a Letter of Assurance that no lawsuits would be filed for anyone implementing the standard. In September 2007, CSIRO responded that they would not be able to comply with this request since

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was involved. In April 2009, it was revealed that CSIRO reached a settlement with 14 companies including Accton plus other major technology companies —

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, Asus,

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, Netgear,

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, SMC Networks,

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