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.
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.

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.