Bay Networks

Bay Networks, Inc.
Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: BAY (1996-1998) ; Nasdaq: BNET (1994-1996);
Industry	Telecommunications
Predecessor	Wellfleet Communications; SynOptics;
Founded	July 1994
Fate	Acquired by Northern Telecom
Successor	Nortel Networks
Headquarters	Billerica, Massachusetts, US; Santa Clara, California, US;
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Paul Severino; Andy Ludwick; Dave House;
Products	Router Products Technology, Network Management, Remote Access Servers, Internet/Intranet CPE & Applications, Data Over Cable Products, Digital Signal Processing Technology
Members	Dave House, Ex-CEO
Website	web.archive.org/web/19961029222519/http://www.baynetworks.com

Bay Networks, Inc., was a network hardware vendor formed through the merger of Santa Clara, California, based SynOptics Communications and Billerica, Massachusetts based Wellfleet Communications on July 6, 1994. SynOptics was an important early innovator of Ethernet products, having developed a pre-standard twisted pair 10Mbit/s Ethernet product and a modular Ethernet hub product that dominated the enterprise networking market. Wellfleet was an important competitor to Cisco Systems in the router market, ultimately commanding up to a 20% market share of the network router business worldwide. The combined company was renamed Bay Networks as a nod to the legacy that SynOptics was based in the San Francisco area and Wellfleet was based in the Boston area, two cities well known for their bays.

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