Zyxel Communications Corporation ( ; ),De Jong, David. 'ZyXEL Armor Z2 review: hard to beat on the higher frequencies' 7 February 2018. , 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 it 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.
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 2017 – Keenetic has been separated into an independent company for the SOHO and consumer markets. 2019 – Zyxel Networks spun off from Zyxel Communications Corp.
See also List of companies of Taiwan List of networking hardware vendors ZyNOS, an operating system used for Zyxel networking devices
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