AVM is a consumer

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company founded in 1986 in

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, Germany. The company produces communications, networking devices such as

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and

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products. It had sales of €580 million in 2020 with 840 employees. It is well known for its popular

FRITZ!Box Fritz!Box, stylised as FRITZ!Box, is a series of residential gateway devices produced by the German company AVM GmbH. In 2010 it was estimated the series had a market share of 68% of the digital subscriber line (DSL) consumer equipment in Germ ...

series.

Products

AVM is the most popular producer for consumer and home networking products in Germany. The company has a share of around 50 percent of the German market for routers for private users. It sells DSL and Cable routers, WLAN and other networking products: *

– Home networking for

, cable,

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and LTE. * FRITZ!Fon – HD telephony, Internet services and music for the FRITZ!Box. * FRITZ!WLAN – Range extender and USB WLAN sticks. *FRITZ!DECT – Smart home appliances * FRITZ!Powerline – FRITZ!Powerline expands home networking via the existing power supply. * FRITZ!Apps – Applications for smartphones for the FRITZ! range of products. * FRITZ!Card – Internal ISDN card for the PCI slot.

History

The company was founded in 1986 by four students: Johannes Nill, Peter Faxel, Ulrich Müller-Albring and Jörg-Detlef Gebert. AVM sold its first ISDN card in 1989 for 4.300 D-Mark (2.150 Euro) to larger businesses. The company's breakthrough came in 1995 with the introduction of the FRITZ!-brand and the FRITZ!Card, an ISDN card for PCs. The name Fritz was chosen "because a non-technical name has been sought which should indicate winking German workmanship and abroad." AVM's market share for ISDN cards grew continuously to a peak of over 80 percent in 2004. At

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2004 AVM introduced the first FRITZ!Box, a combination of DSL modem and router, later with Wi-Fi and integrated PBX. Published in 2007, the FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7270 was seen as innovative by supporting WLAN Draft-N (IEEE 802.11n) and containing a

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base station and a media server. According to market research firm IDC (2007), AVM had a market share in CPE-Equipment of 60 percent in Germany and 18 percent in Europe. In recent years, AVM is also engaging in the field of

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and smart home. The "AVM" in the company name is the acronym for "Audio Visual marketing" and refers to the company's beginnings as BTX service.

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