Zyxel Communications Corporation (/ˈzsɛl/ 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.

Zyxel Communications Corporation
Company typeWholly-owned subsidiaries
TWSE: 3704
ISINTW0003704003 Edit this on Wikidata
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded1989; 35 years ago (1989) in Hsinchu, Taiwan
FounderDr. Shun-I Chu
HeadquartersHsinchu 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)
Products5G 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)
ParentZyxel Group Corp.
Websitewww.zyxel.com/service-provider/

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

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ "Zyxel wins Taiwan top 20 global brands recognition". Dataquest. 2 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Company Overview". Zyxel. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
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