Aplio was an

Internet appliance An Internet appliance is a consumer device whose main function is easy access to Internet services such as WWW or e-mail. The term was popularized in the 1990s, when it somewhat overlapped in meaning with an information appliance, Internet compu ...

maker located in

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. They were a French startup that was founded in 1996. They were acquired by

Net2Phone Net2phone provides VoIP and cloud computing-based telephony products and services. The company is a subsidiary of IDT Corporation. History Net2Phone was founded in 1990. On July 30, 1999, during the dot-com bubble, the company became a public com ...

in 2000. Their product Aplio/Phone is a device that allowed a standard telephone to communicate across the Internet. It was named Product of the Year by the ''

Internet Telephony Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The terms Internet ...

'' magazine. Version 2.0 was shipped in 1999. Aplio/Pro was an Internet telephony appliance with an embedded Linux kernel. It was named Product of the Year by ''Internet Telephony'' and ''Communications Services'' magazines.

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