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{{Short description|German consumer electronics company}}
{{primary sources|date=February 2009}}
{{more citations needed|date=September 2024}}
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| name = AVM
| logo = AVM.svg
| type = Private
| industry = consumer and home networking
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| foundation = {{start date and age|1986}}
| founder = Johannes Nill, <br>Peter Faxel, <br>{{nobr|Ulrich Müller-Albring,}}<br> Jörg-Detlef Gebert
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| location_city = Berlin
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| area_served = Germany<br>Europe<br>Worldwide
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| products = DSL, Cable and VoIP broadband modems, routers, VoIP phone
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| revenue = [[Euro]] 620 Million (2022)
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| num_employees = 840 (2020)
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| location_country = Germany
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| homepage = {{URL|https://www.avm.de}}
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'''AVM''' is a consumer [[electronics]] company founded in 1986 in [[Berlin]], Germany. The company produces communications, networking devices such as [[Digital subscriber line|DSL]], [[Integrated Services Digital Network|ISDN]], [[Wireless]] and [[Voice over Internet Protocol|VoIP]] products. It had sales of €620 million in 2022 with 880 employees achieving an estimated profit between €80 and €90 million.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About AVM|url=https://en.avm.de/about-avm/who-we-are/|access-date=2023-09-16|website=AVM International|language=en}}</ref>  It is well known for its popular [[Fritz!Box|FRITZ!Box]] series.
==Products==
[[File:Fritzbox Fon WLAN 7390 vorne.jpg|thumb|AVM FRITZ!Box 7390 from 2009]]
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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=WLAN-Frust? Mit dieser Hardware tunen Sie ihr Netz|url=https://www.stern.de/digital/wlan-aufbohren-mit-netgear--fritzbox--google-wifi-8459664.html|access-date=2020-10-27|website=stern.de|language=de}}</ref> It sells DSL and Cable routers, WLAN and other networking products:
* [[FRITZ!Box]] – Home networking for [[Digital subscriber line|DSL]], cable, [[FTTH]] and [[LTE (telecommunication)|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 abroad." AVM's market share for ISDN cards grew continuously to a peak of over 80 percent in 2004.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Flohr |first=Udo |date=2006-12-03 |title=Hardware-Hersteller AVM: Die drei erfolgreichen Vier |language=de |work=Der Spiegel |url=https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/hardware-hersteller-avm-die-drei-erfolgreichen-vier-a-451640.html |access-date=2023-05-23 |issn=2195-1349}}</ref>
At [[CeBIT]] 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 [[DECT]] base station and a media server.
According to market research firm IDC (2007), AVM had a market share in [[Customer-premises equipment|CPE-Equipment]] of 60 percent in Germany and 18 percent in Europe.
In recent years, AVM is also engaging in the field of [[home automation]] and smart home.
The "AVM" in the company name is the acronym for "Audio Visual marketing" and refers to the company's beginnings as [[Bildschirmtext|BTX]] service.
== See also ==
{{Portal|Companies}}
* [[List of VOIP companies]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
{{Commons category|AVM GmbH}}
* {{Official website}}
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