Zyxel Explained

Zyxel Communications Corporation
Type:	Wholly-owned subsidiaries
Foundation:	in Hsinchu, Taiwan
Founder:	Dr. Shun-I Chu
Location:	Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Key People:	Shun-I Chu (Founder, Chairman of Zyxel Group Corp.)Gordon Yang (Chairman)Karsten Gewecke (President)Denise Lin (Chief Sustainability Officer)
Area Served:	Worldwide
Industry:	Telecommunications
Products:	5G NR/4G LTE Fixed Wireless Access CPE, DSL CPE, firewalls, VoIP telephones, modems, mesh networking equipment
Num Employees:	651 (as of December 31, 2021)
Parent:	Zyxel Group Corp.

Zyxel Communications Corporation (;),^[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

• 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]
• 2017 – Keenetic has been separated into an independent company for the SOHO and consumer markets.
• 2019 – Zyxel Networks spun off from Zyxel Communications Corp.^[3]

See also

• List of companies of Taiwan
• List of networking hardware vendors
• ZyNOS, an operating system used for Zyxel networking devices

External links

• Official site

Notes and References

1. De Jong, David. 'ZyXEL Armor Z2 review: hard to beat on the higher frequencies' 7 February 2018. http://web.archive.org/web/20180829110343/https://uk.hardware.info/reviews/7850/zyxel-armor-z2-review-hard-to-beat-on-the-higher-frequencies, 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
2. Zyxel wins Taiwan top 20 global brands recognition . . 2 December 2016.
3. Web site: Company Overview . 2022-03-17 . Zyxel . en.