2Wireとは 意味・読み方・使い方

2Wire, Inc., is a Broadband Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) manufacturer that provides telecommunications companies with hardware, software, service platforms, and remote CPE management systems. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, in the Silicon Valley. As of July 2010, the company employs approximately 1,600 employees globally, including 550 in R&D, sales and administration, 450 in customer care and 600 agency employees in five U.S. offices and an additional nine offices around the world. The 2Wire HomePortal residential gateways are distributed by broadband service providers such as AT&T in the United States, Bell in Canada, Telmex in Mexico, BT Group in the United Kingdom, Telstra in Australia and SingTel in Singapore. In July 2010, Pace plc of the United Kingdom agreed to buy 2Wire for $475m (£307m).