Melco Holdings Inc. is a family business founded by Makoto Maki in 1975 and is located in Japan.

[2] Buffalo Technology (USA) is the North American subsidiary of the group and is based in Austin, Texas.

January 1999 – First Wireless Router December 2002 – First Draft-11g Wi-Fi Products Shipped November 2003 – First NAS Appliance January 2005 – First RAID NAS Appliance April 2006 – First Draft-11n Wi-Fi Products Shipped November 2009 – First USB 3.0 Storage January 2012 – First Draft-11ac Wi-Fi Solution Demonstrated at CES May 2012 – First Draft-11ac Wi-Fi products shipped [3][4] June 2012 – First Thunderbolt + USB 3.0 Hybrid Device May 2013 – First DDR Memory Buffer DAS Drive [5] In late 2006, the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) won a lawsuit against Buffalo Inc. under which it would receive a royalty for every WLAN product worldwide.

[7] In June 2007, the federal court in Texas granted an injunction to prevent any more wireless products from shipping until a license agreement had been reached.

In this connection Buffalo is hopeful that it will shortly be permitted to, once again, sell IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g compliant products in the United States.