For more than three decades, USRobotics has helped millions of people connect to the Internet with powerful, innovative products. The company continues to expand its category leadership by transforming the latest technologies into reliable and easy-to-use high-performance products for homes, home offices, and small- and medium-sized businesses. We are dedicated to keeping people connected worldwide – to information, entertainment, and each other.
Founded in classic tech start-up fashion in an Illinois garage in 1976, USRobotics is named after “the greatest company in the known galaxy” – U.S. Robot and Mechanical Men – from the science fiction novel I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. Founders Casey Cowell, Steve Muka, and Paul Collard began work on their first modem designs in that garage and eventually produced the USR310, USR330, and the Phone Link 300 – acoustic couplers that transmitted analog signals at 300 baud, a painfully slow transmit speed. From these entrepreneurial beginnings, the company quickly emerged as the world’s leader in dial-up modem technology and has been at the forefront of that technology for three decades. Today, the USRobotics brand is one of the most recognized product lines in the network access category.
Without losing its focus on the analog modems that made the company a household name, USRobotics is rapidly expanding its category leadership by offering high-speed, broadband modems; wired and wireless networking solutions; and storage devices; and a complete line of Voice over the Internet accessories to the growing home, small office/home office, and small- to medium-sized business markets.
