Zyxel

Zyxel Communications Corporation (/ˈzaɪsɛl/ 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 type	Wholly-owned subsidiaries
Traded as	TWSE: 3704
ISIN	TW0003704003
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1989; 36 years ago (1989) in Hsinchu, Taiwan
Founder	Dr. Shun-I Chu
Headquarters	Hsinchu 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)
Products	5G 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)
Parent	Zyxel Group Corp.
Website	www.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.

In 2025, Zyxel announced that they 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.^[2]

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^[3]
• 2017 – Keenetic has been separated into an independent company for the SOHO and consumer markets.
• 2019 – Zyxel Networks spun off from Zyxel Communications Corp.^[4]

See also

• List of companies of Taiwan
• List of networking hardware vendors
• ZyNOS, an operating system used for Zyxel networking devices