Zyxel Communications Corp. is a Chinese public company with headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The company was founded in 1999. It is a producer of networking devices, like routers, switches, modems, firewalls, mesh networking equipment. Today Zyxel has 35 branch offices in Asia, Europe and North America, distributors of its products in more than 70 countries and about 1500 employees and all over the world. Its year turnover by 2008 has reached the level of 479 million US dollars.