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<p>DECserver is a discontinued family of asynchronous <a href="/facts/Console_server/62B9shGQ">console server</a>, <a href="/facts/Terminal_server/62B9shGQ">terminal server</a>, and <a href="/facts/Print_server/4gr2wCYq">print server</a> products introduced by <a href="/facts/Digital_Equipment_Corporation/ztxs6keA">Digital Equipment Corporation</a> (DEC). The DECserver brand later became used for a class of UNIX-variant application and file server products based upon the <a href="/facts/MIPS_architecture/efV4KgK4">MIPS</a> processor. It was a highly successful series of products for DEC; in February 1998, in anticipation of its acquisition by <a href="/facts/Compaq/6LuhWTE7">Compaq</a>, the company sold its Network Products Business to <a href="/facts/Cabletron/puXxLMTu">Cabletron</a>, which then spun out as its own company, Digital Networks (later known as Vnetek Communications), in September 2000. </p>