Zyxel Communications Corporation
TypeWholly-owned subsidiaries
TWSE: 3704
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded1989 (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.
Websitezyxel.com
ZyXEL Prestige 600 series DSL modem.

Zyxel Communications Corporation, a subsidiary of Zyxel Group Corporation (TWSE: 3704), 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[1]
  • 2019Zyxel Networks spun off from Zyxel Communications Corp.[2]

Origin of name

Zyxel is pronounced “zai-cell.”[3]

Zyxel’s Chinese name, 合勤, is pronounced “Huh-Cheen” (Héqín) and means “cooperative and diligent.

See also

References

  1. "Zyxel wins Taiwan top 20 global brands recognition". Dataquest. 2 December 2016.
  2. "Company Overview". Zyxel. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  3. De Jong, David. 'ZyXEL Armor Z2 review: hard to beat on the higher frequencies' 7 February 2018. , archived 2019-08-29 from the original page: https://uk.hardware.info/reviews/7850/zyxel-armor-z2-review-hard-to-beat-on-the-higher-frequencies
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