As of July 15, 2003, Com21 Inc. has voluntarily filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. Com21, Inc. went out of business. Com21, Inc. supplies system solutions for the broadband access market worldwide. Its products enable domestic and international cable operators to provide high-speed Internet access and telephony applications to a variety of subscriber markets, including residential, corporate telecommuters, and small businesses. The company provides headend equipment, subscriber cable modems, and network management software, all designed to support Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Data Over Cable System Interface Specification (DOCSIS), and Euro-DOCSIS industry standards. The ATM headend equipment controls the flow of data communications between cable modems and an external network, such as the Internet or a corporate network. Cable modems send and receive data over coaxial cable. Network management software facilitates provisioning, fault isolation, network configuration, field inventory, auto-discovery, and performance for the headend equipment. The DOCSIS cable modem termination systems equipment controls the flow of data communications between DOCSIS cable modems and an external network, such as the Internet or a corporate network. In the North American market, Com21 primarily sells directly to cable operators. Internationally, it sells primarily to systems integrators, who in turn sell to cable operators. The company’s competitors include Motorola, Scientific-Atlanta, Toshiba America, Thomson, Samsung Electronics, Terayon Communication Systems, and Cisco Systems. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Milpitas, California.