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About ZyXEL

Helping People Realize the Full Potential of Networking Technology

As one of the world's leading broadband access solutions vendors, ZyXEL will help you efficiently and safely take advantage of all that the Internet has to offer. Our Internet access solutions accelerate information exchange to create the most effective network environment for you.

ZyXEL at a Glance

Worldwide Headquarters: ZyXEL Communications Corporation (Taiwan)
Foundation Date: August 16, 1989
Chairman & President: Dr. Shun-I Chu
Vice Chairman: Dr. Yuh-Long Chen
Paid in Capital: 3.7Billion NT Dollars (Approximately 112 Million US Dollars)
Publicly listed company in Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE: 2391)
Major Product Lines: DSL Customer Premise Equipment (CPE), IP DSLAMs, Switches, Internet Security Gateways, Wireless LAN Equipment, Routers, ISDN Terminal Adapters, Analog Modems
Worldwide Employees: 1800

Our Mission

To create Internet access solutions that accelerate information exchange and improve effectiveness of people and organizations.

As one of the world's leading broadband access solutions vendors, ZyXEL is dedicated to ensuring that you can efficiently and safely take advantage of all that the Internet has to offer. Our mission is to understand all your needs, and then create the most effective network environment for you.

Our Promise

ZyXEL's promise to its customers is to help them realize the full potential of networking technology, making it easy to take advantage of exciting new Internet applications made possible by broadband access--such as e-commerce, online entertainment, and distance learning. In order to unleash networking power for its customers, ZyXEL offers innovative broadband access solutions.

Due to the extraordinarily fast pace of technology advances in the networking field, innovation is the key to fulfilling this promise. Fortunately, a spirit of innovation is at the very heart of ZyXEL's corporate culture, and the strongest driving force behind its ability to emerge as one of the world's leaders in broadband access solutions.

Moreover, ZyXEL has the experience and expertise to provide customers with complete solutions. Drawing on its many years of developing for the networking market--from modems in its early years to today's broadband access solutions, from personal networking devices to central office equipment--ZyXEL has the technical capabilities and comprehensive product lineup require to help customers to quickly and easily implement robust broadband services.

Our Background

Founded in 1989 as a modem developer, ZyXEL has evolved in response to changes in the rapidly changing networking industry.  Our main product lines have shifted from modems, ISDN terminal adapters, and routers for individuals and small businesses to a comprehensive range of networking solutions for a more broadly defined customer base, including larger enterprises and service providers.

Core Competence, Key to Success

ZyXEL products utilize the most advanced iterations of IP technology. This, along with superior product quality, has enabled us to become a key player in the global broadband access equipment market, offering a wide array of proprietary technologies that have won acclaim from all quarters. ZyXEL is one of the world's few vendors able to integrate WAN, LAN, DSL, firewall, wireless LAN networking, and routing technologies in its product offerings.

Not only are we able to provide a highly diverse range of products and integrated solutions, we can also provide customized products to meet the specific needs of customers.

One Direction, All the Solutions

Innovation is a core value in ZyXEL's corporate culture, and is reflected in the products it creates. To maintain our technology advantage, ZyXEL devotes an average of 6% of revenues to its R&D efforts, with R&D staff accounting for more than a quarter of our total workforce. These capabilities have enabled us to create a comprehensive lineup of access multiplexers, customer premise equipment, switches, wireless LAN equipment, and firewall solutions.

In addition, our innovation extends to the design of integrated solutions, which take advantage of superior understanding of the broadband market and of particular customer concerns. ZyXEL provides a product lineup unmatched in breadth, depth, and time-to-market. Examples of innovative solutions include a combination of DSL, firewall, and wireless technologies for SOHO and small business Internet access environments, as well as integrated IP DSLAM equipment, switches, and routers for the complex networking environments found on campuses and in hotels.

Global Vision, Local Touch

While maintaining its expansive vision of enhancing communications between individuals and organizations through networking technology, ZyXEL is equally devoted to providing its customers service with a local touch. ZyXEL believes that providing customers with high quality, high value-added products and services tuned to their particular needs is the way to create the greatest benefit for them.

ZyXEL's customer-centric approach finds its roots in the company's corporate culture and extends to every facet of its operations--product development, manufacturing, sales, and after-sales service. Through its worldwide offices, ZyXEL is able to understand and fulfill the varying localized requirements of its customers. This ability to operate on a global scale while maintaining sensitivity to local needs is a key reason to work closely with leading telcos and service providers as a long-term partner.

Powered by Innovation, Geared for Growth

ZyXEL is devoted to providing its customers service with a local touch by offering high-quality, high-value-added products and services tuned to their particular needs. This customer-centric approach has its roots in the company's corporate culture and extends to every facet of its operations: product development, manufacturing, sales, and after-sales service. Through its worldwide offices, ZyXEL is able to understand and fulfill the varying localized requirements of its customers. This ability to operate on a global scale while maintaining sensitivity to local needs is a key to working closely with leading telcos and service providers as a long-term partner.

Milestones

2005 World's first 802.11g wireless Gigabit router to support WPA2 and WMM - P-364W
2005 World's first palm-sized portable personal firewall - ZyWALL P1
2005 World's first 3-layer security scheme for SMB network
2004 World's first ADSL2+ gateway with Anti-Virus - Prestige 662HW
2004 World's first ATM-based DMT VDSL gateway to support Triple Play - Prestige 861
2003 World's first ADSL security gateway with 802.11g WLAN and ISDN dial backup
2002 Released Taiwan's first IP DSLAM supporting ADSL, G.SHDSL, VDSL services
2000 Launched Taiwan's first ADSL IP DSLAM
1999 Established branch office in Germany, as well as in Norway, Sweden
1999 Entered the broadband technology field, developing the world's first PPPoE ADSL router
1999 Shares listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange
1998 Introduced world's first SOHO sharing router with NAT support
1998 Established subsidiary in Denmark
1996 Established US subsidiary
1996 Router successfully developed and launched to the market
1996 Debuted world's first SOHO router with PPP/MP support
1996 Introduced Taiwan's first ISDN router
1995 Successfully developed and brought to market V.34 modem, ISDN terminal adapter
1995 Launched world's first analog/digital ISDN modem
1992 Developed world's first integrated voice/fax/modem
1991 Successfully developed modem module and launched V.32bis modem
1990 Successfully developed Asia's first modem data pump
1989 Founded in Taiwan's Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park