Zyxel Communications Corporation, a subsidiary of Unizyx Holding Corporation (), is a Taiwanese multinational broadband provider headquartered in the
Hsinchu Science Park
The Hsinchu Science Park (HSP; ) is an industrial park established by the government of Taiwan on 15 December 1980. It straddles Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County in Taiwan.
History
The idea of the establishment of the Hsinchu Science Park was ...
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. The company was founded in 1989 by Dr 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 flagship products ahead of the competition and were adopted by leading Nordic service providers.
Corporate history
*1988 – Zyxel founder, Dr. Shun-I Chu, starts the business in
Taoyuan County
Taoyuan County () is under the administration of Changde, Hunan, Hunan Province, China. The Yuan River, a tributary of the Yangtze, flows through Taoyuan. It covers an area of 4441 square kilometers, of which is arable land. It is from Zhangji ...
, 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
*2017 – Keenetic has been separated into an independent company for the SOHO and consumer markets
*2019 – Zyxel Networks spun off from Zyxel Communications Corp.
Origin of name
Zyxel is pronounced “zai-cell.”
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See also
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List of companies of Taiwan
Taiwan maintains a stable industrial economy as a result of economic growth and industrialization during the late 20th century, being dubbed as one of the Four Asian Tigers along with Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea. It is a member of both ...
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List of networking hardware vendors
Networking hardware typically refers to equipment facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, this includes routers, switches, access points, network interface cards and other related hardware. This is a list of notable vendors who pr ...
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ZyNOS ZyNOS is the proprietary operating system used on network devices made by Zyxel Communications. The name is a contraction of Zyxel and Network Operating System (NOS).
History
Zyxel first introduced ZyNOS in 1998.
Versions
Zyxel released ZyNOS ...
, an operating system used for Zyxel networking devices
References
External links
Official site
{{Commons category, ZyXEL
1989 establishments in Taiwan
Manufacturing companies based in Hsinchu
Electronics companies established in 1989
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Taiwanese brands