Netopia, Inc., formerly Farallon Computing, Inc., was an American computer networking company that produced a wide variety of products including bridges, repeaters and switches, and in their later Netopia incarnation, modems, routers, gateways, and Wi-Fi devices. The company also produced the NBBS (Netopia Broadband Server Software) and, as Farallon, Timbuktu remote administration software, as well as the MacRecorder, the first audio capture and manipulation products for the Macintosh (later sold to Macromedia). Farallon originated several notable technologies, including: Netopia acquired multiple companies in the home networking space including Cayman and DoBox, Inc. DoBox, Inc., founded by Nicole Toomey Davis, Bradley Davis and Matt Smith, was acquired in 2002 for its award-winning DoBox Family Firewall and Home Server Gateway.

History

Farallon Computing was founded in 1986 in Berkeley. It subsequently moved its headquarters to Emeryville, California, and later still changed its name to Netopia in 1998. Netopia was acquired by Motorola in the first quarter of 2007. ISPs known to use Netopia modems include: In the Philippines, Netopia was created in 1996 by Digital Paradise. In 2019, declining internet cafes business ended Netopia when IP E-Games Ventures divest from the former.