Zyxel

{{Short description|Taiwanese manufacturer of networking hardware}}

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{{Infobox company

| name = Zyxel Communications Corporation

| logo =

| type = Wholly-owned subsidiaries

| traded_as = {{TSE|3704}}

| foundation = {{Start date and age|1989}} 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.

| homepage = {{URL|https://www.zyxel.com/service-provider/}}

}}Zyxel Communications Corporation ({{IPAc-en|'|z|aɪ|s|ɛ|l}} {{Respell|ZY|sel}}; {{Lang-zh|c=合勤科技|p=Héqín Kējì}}),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 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.

In 2025, Zyxel announced that they would not release patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities under active attack in its products that—while officially in end-of-life status—were still in use and still available for purchase on Amazon.{{cite web |last1=Page |first1=Carly |title=Router maker Zyxel tells customers to replace vulnerable hardware exploited by hackers |url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/router-maker-zyxel-tells-customers-to-replace-vulnerable-hardware-exploited-by-hackers/ |website=TechCrunch |access-date=5 February 2025}}

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{{cite magazine |title=Zyxel wins Taiwan top 20 global brands recognition |url=http://www.dqindia.com/zyxel-wins-taiwan-top-20-global-brands-recognition/ |magazine=Dataquest |date=2 December 2016}}
  • 2017Keenetic has been separated into an independent company for the SOHO and consumer markets.
  • 2019Zyxel Networks spun off from Zyxel Communications Corp.{{Cite web |title=Company Overview |url=https://www.zyxel.com/about_zyxel/company_overview.shtml |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=Zyxel |language=en}}

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