Zyxel

Zyxel Communications Corporation, 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.

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.