With a complete product portfolio for outdoor, indoor and portable devices, Zyxel helps you to deploy networks more flexibly and provides Gigabit class LTE to open more possibility for limitless applications. Wherever you go, Zyxel help you expanding your service horizons. Expand services without boundary. Jan 22, 2019 Without these twp steps, anyone who wants to can easily connect to your network. ZyXEL is a manufacturer of networking hardware. AP usually means 'access point' - a device that connects to a network.

Zyxel Communications Corp. (Chinese: 合勤科技; pinyin: Héqín Kējì; holding company: Unizyx (TWSE: 3704) is a manufacturer of networking devices. Headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Zyxel maintains branch offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. It has around 1,500 employees globally, with distributors in more than 70 countries, 35 branch offices worldwide, and products marketed in over 150 countries on five continents. Zyxel works with worldwide network equipment vendors, telecommunications companies, ISPs, and other small and medium-sized businesses. In addition to acting as an OEM for ISPs and System integrators, the company also sells Zyxel-branded products directly to businesses and consumers.

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Corporate history[edit]

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 is established at Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan in 1989.

1992 – 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^[1]

2017 – Keenetic has been separated into independent brand.

Origin of name[edit]

Zyxel is pronounced “zai-cell.”^[2]

Zyxel’s Chinese name, 合勤, is pronounced “Her-Chin” (Héqín) and means “cooperative and diligent.”^{[citation needed]}

See also[edit]

• ZyNOS, an operating system used for Zyxel networking devices

References[edit]

1. ^'Zyxel wins Taiwan top 20 global brands recognition'. Dataquest. 2 December 2016.
2. ^De Jong, David. 'ZyXEL Armor Z2 review: hard to beat on the higher frequencies' 7 February 2018. [1], archived 2019-08-29 from the original page: https://uk.hardware.info/reviews/7850/zyxel-armor-z2-review-hard-to-beat-on-the-higher-frequencies

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A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in firewalls, virtual private network gateways and access point controllers manufactured by Zyxel Communications Corp.

Detailed last month by security researchers at Dutch cybersecurity firm Eye Control, the vulnerability is believed to affect more than 100,000 devices manufactured by the company, according to a report Saturday on ZDNet. The vulnerability involves the devices having a hardcoded administrative-level backdoor account that can grant attackers root access to devices either with SSH or a web administration panel.

Given the hardcoded username and password, hackers can gain access to networks using Zyxel devices. “Someone could, for example, change firewall settings to allow or block certain traffic,” Eye Control researcher Niels Teusink states. “They could also intercept traffic or create VPN accounts to gain access to the network behind the device.”

The vulnerability is found in Zyxel’s ATP, USG, USG Flex, VPN series and NXC series devices.

While not a household name, Zyxel is a Taiwan-based company that manufactures networking devices primarily used by small to medium-sized businesses. The company actually has a surprisingly remarkable list of firsts: It was the first company in the world to design an analog/digital ISDN modem, the first with an ADSL2+ gateway and the first to offer a palm-sized portable personal firewall, among other achievements.

This isn’t the first time vulnerabilities have been found in Zyxel devices, however. A study from the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication in July named Zyxel along with AsusTek Computer Inc., Netgear Inc., D-Link Corp., Linksys, TP-Link Technologies Co. Ltd. and AVM Computersysteme Vertriebs GmbH as having a range of security issues.

Zyxel has addressed the vulnerability, formally called CVE-2020-29583, in an advisory and has issued a patch to fix the issue. In the advisory, the company noted that the hardcoded “zyfwp” user account was designed to deliver automatic firmware updates to connected access points through FTP.

Users of affected Zyxel devices are advised to install the applicable firmware updates for optimal protection.

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