Zyxel
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| Company type | Wholly-owned subsidiaries |
|---|---|
| TWSE: 3704 | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1989 in Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| Founder | Dr. Shun-I Chu |
| Headquarters | Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Shun-I Chu (Founder, Chairman of Zyxel Group Corp.)
Gordon Yang (Chairman) Karsten Gewecke (President) Denise Lin (Chief Sustainability Officer) |
| Products | 5G NR/4G LTE Fixed Wireless Access CPE, DSL CPE, firewalls, VoIP telephones, modems, mesh networking equipment |
Number of employees | 651 (as of December 31, 2021) |
| Parent | Zyxel Group Corp. |
| Website | www |
Zyxel Communications Corporation (/ˈzaɪsɛl/ ZY-sel; Chinese: 合勤科技; pinyin: Héqín Kējì),[1] a subsidiary of Zyxel Group Corporation, is a Taiwanese multinational broadband provider headquartered in the Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. The company was founded in 1989 by Shun-I Chu, and has three research centers, four regional headquarters, and 35 branch offices.
The company has a portfolio of mobile and fixed-line broadband access products. In 2020, Zyxel Communications launched WiFi 6 and 5G products.
Corporate history[edit]
- 1988 – Zyxel founder, Dr. Shun-I Chu, starts the business in Taoyuan County, Taiwan in 1988. Dr. Chu rents an apartment in Taoyuan as a lab and starts to develop an analog modem in 1988
- 1989 – Headquarters established at Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan in 1989
- 1992 – Launches world's 1st Integrated voice/fax/modem
- 1995 – World's 1st Analog/digital ISDN modem
- 2004 – World's 1st ADSL2+ gateway
- 2005 – World's 1st palm-sized portable personal firewall
- 2009 – World's 1st Gigabit active fiber & Telco-grade IPv6 end to end solution
- 2010 – World's 1st Carbon footprint verification on the VDSL2 CPE product
- 2014 – World's 1st UMTS 802.11ac compatible small cell CPE
- 2016 – Garners 14th Consecutive Best Taiwan Global Brands Award[2]
- 2019 – Zyxel Networks spun off from Zyxel Communications Corp.[3]
See also[edit]
- List of companies of Taiwan
- List of networking hardware vendors
- ZyNOS, an operating system used for Zyxel networking devices
References[edit]
- ^ De Jong, David. 'ZyXEL Armor Z2 review: hard to beat on the higher frequencies' 7 February 2018. [1], archived 2018-08-29 from the original page: https://uk.hardware.info/reviews/7850/zyxel-armor-z2-review-hard-to-beat-on-the-higher-frequencies
- ^ "Zyxel wins Taiwan top 20 global brands recognition". Dataquest. 2 December 2016.
- ^ "Company Overview". Zyxel. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
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