Accton Technology Corporation


Accton Technology Corporation is a Taiwanese company in the electronics industry that primarily engages in the development and manufacture of networking and communication solutions, as an original equipment manufacturer or original design manufacturer partner.
Accton has manufacturing plants in both Taiwan and China and a total workforce of more than 5200 employees worldwide.

History

Accton was founded on February 9, 1988. Accton filled its IPO in November 1995.

Acquisitions

1999 – Emitcom

2000 – Minority stake in U.S. Robotics modem division from 3Com

2010 – Mototech

2015 – SMC Networks

Joint ventures

2002 – Accton and SVA Group China – formed SVA Accton

2003 – Accton and Philips – formed Arcadyan Technology

2011 – Accton and Alvarion – formed AWB

Exits

2004 – ADMTek Inc to Infineon for €80 million

2006 – 69% of Arcadyan Technology to Compal for US$30 million

Services

OEM of networking gear

ODM of networking gear

Design and Development

Supply Chain

Manufacturing

Finance

During the year 2009, Accton obtained approximately 69% and 14% of its total revenue from switches and WLAN products, respectively.
During the year 2017, Accton obtained approximately 68% and 12% out of its total revenue from network switches and network appliances. Network access came third with 9%, followed by 5% in Wireless networking and 1% of the revenue coming from Broadband networking gear.
Total sales for 2018 increased 18.23 percent annually to NT$43.09 billion with Facebook, Amazon, and HP Inc weighing in.
YearRevenue
Net income
Total Assets
Price per Share
2008633123688.41
20095642142815.01
20107423143419.70
20118422845813.75
20128682843616.15
20137241843315.75
20147312145316.00
20157923748031.95
20169406056050.90
2017116682600106.00
201813799471698.60
20191790159900168.00

Corporate Affairs

Management

Accton's key management personnel consists of:
Accton's board consists of the following directors:
2018 – Outstanding Work Environment in Gender Equality from the Hsinchu Science Park Bureau

2018 – National Quality Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs

CSIRO patent issues

The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation holds the patent to a component of the IEEE 802.11n standard. This component is also part of other protocols marketed under the Wi-Fi trademark. The IEEE requested from the CSIRO a Letter of Assurance that no lawsuits would be filed for anyone implementing the standard. In September 2007, CSIRO responded that they would not be able to comply with this request since litigation was involved.
In April 2009, it was revealed that CSIRO reached a settlement with 14 companies including Accton plus other major technology companies —Hewlett-Packard, Asus, Intel, Dell, Toshiba, Netgear, D-Link, Belkin, SMC Networks, 3Com, Buffalo Technology, Microsoft, and Nintendo — on the condition that CSIRO did not broadcast the resolution.