Proxim Wireless Corporation (NASDAQ

NASDAQ

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: PRXM), is a San Jose, California

San Jose, California

San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

-based company that builds scalable broadband wireless networking systems for communities, enterprises, governments, and service providers. It claims to offer WLAN

Wireless LAN

A wireless local area network links two or more devices using some wireless distribution method , and usually providing a connection through an access point to the wider internet. This gives users the mobility to move around within a local coverage area and still be connected to the network...

, mesh, point-to-multipoint and point-to-point products through a global channel network. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Terabeam, Inc.

Terabeam

Terabeam was a formerly Kirkland, Washington-based company that designed and manufactured free-space optical transceivers for Internet access in city downtowns. Through a series of acquisitions and reverse acquisitions in 2004, the company headquarters moved to San Jose, California and Terabeam...

Corporate history

Proxim was founded in 1984, initially headquartered in Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley located in the San Francisco Bay Area...

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Proxim was a founding member of the Wireless LAN Interoperability Forum

Wireless LAN Interoperability Forum

The Wireless LAN Interoperability Forum was an non-profit industry organization founded in 1996 to promote and certify wireless LAN products meeting the OpenAir and IEEE 802.11 standards. It disbanded in 2001...

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Proxim was also a core member of the HomeRadioFrequency Working Group (HomeRF

HomeRF

HomeRF was a wireless networking specification for home devices to be connected to each other. It was developed in 1998 by the HomeRF Working Group, a consortium of mobile wireless companies that included Proxim Wireless, Siemens, Motorola, Philips and more than 100 other companies...

), formed in 1997. The group disbanded at the end of 2002.