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Profile of devolo AG

Company profile

devolo AG was founded in 2002 as a management buy-out of ELSA AG and today is the leading European company in the inhouse powerline market.

The chief product of devolo AG is dLAN® (direct Local Area Network). dLAN® enables data transmission over household power lines and thus enables easy set-up of a network for Internet, audio transmission or IPTV (TV over the Internet). This innovative technology is excellently suited for use in private households as well as in properties used for business.

dLAN® can use not only household power lines, but also signal cables for transmitting data. So you can easily set up networks that use the existing infrastructure without the need to lay new lines.

devolo AG currently employs about 70 people at its location in Aachen, Germany. devolo operates internationally over a broad agent network in Austria, Switzerland, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Benelux, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.

Company history of devolo AG

2007	devolo develops dLAN TV sat, the first adapter for satellite TV transmission over household electrical wiring
2006	devolo presents HomePlug AV products with 200 Mbps transfer rates: dLAN® 200 AV as a new generation of consumer inhouse powerline devices
2006	devolo begins to offer dLAN solutions for the B2B market
2005	MicroLink® dLAN® Highspeed Ethernet is the first HomePlug adapter anywhere with transfer rates up to 85 Mbps over household electrical wiring
2004	MicroLink® dLAN® Audio is the first HomePlug adapter anywhere for the transmission of music data over electrical wiring
2003	Entry into HomePlug technology, market roll-out of the MicroLink® dLAN® product series Market leader on the German market for analogue modems Market leader on the German market for HomePlug products First HomePlug WLAN combination product in Germany
2002	devolo AG is founded as a management buy-out of ELSA AG

PCW Recommended

dLAN 200 AV Wireless G wins Recommended Award!
Issue 3202 Date 01/02/09

What Laptop � Gold

dLAN Wireless extender Kit scoops Gold!
Issue 117 – 1st December, 2008

PCW Recommended

dLAN 200 AVeasy wins Recommended Award!
Issue 3112 - 8th October, 2008

dLAN Wireless extender wins the Editor's Choice Award

Issue N° and date: 124 - 31/03/2008

dLAN 200 AV wins Personal Computer World

PCW - October 2007

PCW – October 2007 Edition

dLAN 200 AV wins Active Home BUY IT! award

dLAN 200 AVdesk wins PC Pro Recommended AWARD

dLAN 200 AVdesk wins Computer Shopper Best Buy Award

Issue 228 - Feb 2007

Issue 228
Feb 2007

dLAN 200 AVdesk wins Computer Buyer Recommended Award

Issue 01/2007

Jan 2007

dLAN 200 AV wins gadgetcentre.com

Issue: 04/30/2007
gadgetcentre.com

dLAN 200 AV Starter Kit wins Pocket-lint HOT PRODUCT AWARD

5 March 2007

dLAN 200 AVdesk wins PCRetail Recommended Award

dLAN Highspeed wins Gold Award

May 2006

23.03.2009

devolo presents B2B product line at London IPTV World Forum

devolo AG presents its complete product portfolio at the IPTV World Forum
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16.03.2009

devolo is first powerline networking manufacturer to provide comprehensive Windows 7 support

The innovative v20 program pack contains, in addition to numerous functional improvements
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02.02.2009

devolo at CeBIT 2009: Featuring professional HomePlug solutions for performance optimisation and WLAN integration

devolo AG of Aachen, Germany, is introducing two dLAN innovations for professional users at CeBIT 2009: the dLAN 200 AVpro WP and the dLAN 200 AVpro host wireless N
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02.02.2009

devolo at CeBIT 2009: The largest product launch in the history of the company, with a new line-up of HomePlug entertainment products

With the new dLAN Entertainment product family, devolo is featuring numerous HomePlug innovations for the audio and video branch.
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26.01.2009

In-Stat study: devolo confirmed as global market leader in HomePlug technology

The US marketing research institute In-Stat confirmed again in a recent study that devolo is the global market leader in HomePlug technology.
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