Zyxel News

NewNet successfully test 40Meg bonded ADSL for launch in May 2008

ZyXEL UK — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Hot on the heels of NewNet’s 24Meg ADSL service in August 2007 with their expansion into Local Loop Unbundled (LLU) exchanges, a new super fast service has been successfully tested.

The new super fast ADSL has been designed to use two telephone lines to provide a seamless Internet service with downloads up to 40Meg.

The service bonds the lines together and uses a special router designed by ZyXEL Communications that was shipped to NewNet for the first trials in this country.

Lee Marsden, ZyXEL Communications Sales Director said: "ZyXEL is delighted to be working in partnership with NewNet, assisting their product development and helping them to open up new ADSL services on their LLU enabled exchanges."

Following the successful testing of the service the launch will take place in May this year.

Peter Coates-Buglear, CEO, NewNet plc commented: “This service will be unique in it's capability for 'plug and play' bonded service, no other units we looked at were this easy to use. We are pleased that several months of hard work and liaison with ZyXEL and other suppliers has resulted in a new service that we will roll out on our LLU enabled exchanges. The 40Meg service is yet another example of NewNet pushing the boundaries and setting new standards for service delivery.”

ZyXEL signs Somerfield

ZyXEL UK — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

29 April 2008: ZyXEL Communications UK Ltd (ZyXEL) today announces it has signed a deal with grocery retailer Somerfield.

The deal will see ZyXEL, through its partner Wincor Nixdorf, providing switch upgrades for over 700 Somerfield stores. This equates to a new ES-3148 48-port Ethernet managed switch in every Somerfield EPoS enabled Store in the UK.

Steve Lloyd, VAR Sales Manager at ZyXEL comments on the deal, “The need for reliable and secure networking solutions in retail is particularly key to the sector’s business for EPOS systems, stock control and managing information. This win demonstrates ZyXEL’s continuing momentum in the UK’s network access industry and our ability to deliver reliable and proven technologies that get businesses connected.”

For information about ZyXEL’s end-to-end communication solutions please visit: http://www.zyxel.co.uk/web/index2.php

About Somerfield

Somerfield, which aims to be Britain's favourite local grocery shop, operates from c. 900 stores (including 149 forecourts) across the UK and employs 42,000 colleagues.
Somerfield was taken private in December 2005 and is owned by a consortium consisting of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP, Barclays Capital, the Tchenguiz Family Trust, Kaupthing Bank and Management.
In the year to 30 April 2007, Somerfield had sales of £4.4 billion and EBITDA of £227 million.
There are plans to open 250 new smaller stores over the next three years, which should deliver over £500 million of sales in 2010.

Once again, ZyXEL Wins Reddot Design Award

ZyXEL UK — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Hsinchu, Taiwan, April 16, 2008-- ZyXEL Communications (TSE: 2391), the world's leading broadband access solutions provider, once again won the 2008 German Reddot Design Award with its Omni-directional Antenna and Dual-band Wireless N Gigabit Router, following its VoIP series win last year.

Founded over 50 years ago by Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, the most prestigious design association in Germany, the Reddot Award has become one of the highly celebrated international industrial awards. In 2008, 3203 entries from 51 countries were meticulously inspected and evaluated from innovation, functionality, aesthetics, marketability, ergonomics and ecological compatibility by internationally recognized experts. The competitive success of ZyXEL designs amidst the impressive competition reaffirms the ability of the com! pany to turn technology products into masterpieces.

"ZyXEL is honored to become a winner of the award for two consecutive years," said Mr. Konica Lee, Assistant Manager of ZyXEL's Creative Design Department. "In the future, ZyXEL will not only keep developing better products for customers, but also keep working on innovations that closely fuse technology, style and quality."

To ZyXEL, recognition from the Reddot Award is another boost to the ANT1106 Omni-directional Antenna, winner of Taiwan's National Gold Award of Product Design in 2007. More than just a bold move away from traditional designs, the simplistic three-piece antenna also provides coverage without annoying dead spots; the polished, streamlined exterior emphasizes its refinements derived from a high-tech root. The magnetic attachment between the antenna and the base offers convenient assembly, as well as a flexible desktop or wall-mount installation to meet different location needs. The unit ! is capable of extending wireless signal coverage by 174% for 2.4GHz Wi Fi routers, access points and PCI to improve connectivity and data throughput.

The other award-winning product, Dual-band Wireless N Gigabit Router, is a wireless router featuring MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) technology that empowers astounding performance to satisfy the networking and multimedia demands of home users today. To elaborate on its technological advantages, ZyXEL's industrial design team gave the router a bright white housing and transparent display panel with elegance and taste, along with LED signal lights and a touch panel that gives users an impression of stylish future homes.

USG's Help SMBs Reduce The Cost Of Threat Management

ZyXEL UK — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Bracknell – April 07 2008: ZyXEL Communications Ltd. UK (ZyXEL) today releases its Unified Security Gateway (USG) products, the USG300 and USG1000. The new products provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with the next generation of Unified Threat Management (UTM) technology that delivers enterprise-level advanced security at a fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO).

UK SMBs are undergoing significant changes. The range of security threats they face is increasing as a result of a rise in the use of hosted applications, a growth in VoIP adoption and employee use of Web 2.0 services such as Facebook and Instant Messenger. Government legislation encouraging remote working has also increased the number of Internet ‘break-outs’ – unless properly secured these break-outs provide opportunities for hackers, and unauthorised network access.

The USG range enhances ZyXEL’s existing range of security products. It has been designed for the larger mid-size enterprises and enables them to manage a security policy across multiple ‘branch’ offices and a considerable number of remote workers via a single device. In addition to simplifying threat management the USG hardware also removes the need for individual firewalls to be located at each individual ‘break-out’ – dramatically reducing capital cost and TCO and increasing ease of scalability.

ZyXEL’s new USG technology helps SMBs fight all of these potential threats with functionality like embedded hardware encryption, and robust hybrid VPN support, SSL or L2TP for the securing connections. They also have inbuilt WAN failover support to guarantee the resilience of the business to branch infrastructure.

ZyXEL’s ZyWall and UTM devices remain a cost effective solution for smaller SMBs looking to protect their corporate network. Lee Marsden, sales director at ZyXEL explains, “UK SMBs are facing new and increasingly virulent security threats, on an almost daily basis. Often they struggle to effectively combat these threats because of technology or budget. “ZyXEL’s new USG devices simplify the task of protecting an entire SMB’s, increasingly distributed, network, while reducing the total cost of ownership and reducing the number of devices deployed.”

Analyst quote “Employees are now working from a variety of locations and business can no longer rely on the protection of a firewall alone. ZyXEL’s new USG range enable larger SMBs to configure security to meet their individual demands and enable them to focus on their growth, with the piece of mind that their network is protected against web-based threats.”

ZyXEL’s USG products are fully certified ICSA SPI Firewalls and IPSec VPN devices enabling SMBs to establish secure communication tunnels between multiple locations, such as remote branch offices, business partner sites, and even unreliable hotel hotspots. Communication channels are securely encrypted so that information leakage and data theft can be mitigated while transmitting confidential information over insecure networks such as the Internet.

ZyXEL Offers Gamers Unreal Opportunity at i33

ZyXEL UK — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Bracknell, 12th March 2008: ZyXEL, sponsors of professional gaming outfit Team Dignitas, is offering gamers the opportunity to play the professionals during i33 (Newbury, March 21/22nd). The player who manages to achieve the most ‘kills’ against one of the Dignitas professionals in Unreal Tournament 3 (UT3) on each day will be rewarded with a pair of ZyXEL PowerLine HomePlug adapters, that will help turn players’ home electrical circuits into a high speed broadband network, with access points in any room.

Sarah Guy, Director of Communications at ZyXEL UK, explains, “We are giving game players attending i33 the opportunity to test their skills against some of the best in the industry. Players GaRpY and Zaccubus will be on the ZyXEL stand for two hours each day inviting gamers to challenge them in Unreal Tournament 3.

“The player that achieves the most ‘kills’ against one of the professionals will be rewarded with the latest “must have” gadget for serious players – a set of ZyXEL PowerLine HomePlug adapters. These are the same devices that are being used by some Team Dignitas members to create a 200Mbps connection between their PC and their broadband access point using their home electrical wiring circuits.”

Michael O’Dell, Team Dignitas Managing Director says, “We’ve recently joined forces with ZyXEL and some of our players have been using their PowerLine HomePlug-enabled routers in the build up to i33. This technology is a must for all serious gamers – providing 200 Mbps connectivity without the reliability challenges of wireless and the need to feed a dedicated cable from the broadband access point to the gaming pc.”

Team Dignitas members will be on stand throughout the day – gamers should listen out for announcements by the event organisers for their chance to ‘kill’ the pros.

Related sites:

Team Dignitas

More info about i33

Microscope Aces Vendor of the Year 2008 - Vote ZyXEL Now!

ZyXEL UK — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Our nomination is recognition from partners in our commitment, to ensure our ZyPartner programme and channel structure, delivers value and margin opportunities to our partners. Our partners are instrumental to our success and by focusing on key vertical and horizontal propositions and products we have managed to engineer our channel to provide growth opportunities and provide unique selling points that create long-term partnerships.

“In the past we’ve worked with other vendors who didn’t necessarily listen to our business needs and therefore could not deliver the right support. It’s refreshing to find a vendor like ZyXEL, who listens to us and works with us to help deliver the best services we can.” Anas Mawla, Managing Director at Gaia Technologies.

ZyXEL has invested significant time and money into strengthening its channel presence throughout 2007 and has listened to partners’ suggestions to deliver new opportunities. With innovative products, UK based technical support, pre-sales training and marketing, ZyXEL is able to provide long-term commitment and huge growth opportunities in a short period of time. This is the reason why ZyXEL believes it should win Vendor of the Year. We would like to thank our partners for their continued support and ask them to continue to support us by voting for us. Justin Kuo, Managing Director, ZyXEL Communications.

Vote for ZyXEL now on the Microscope website

ZyXEL Support Team Gain Valuable Feedback

ZyXEL UK — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

ZyXEL constantly endeavours to provide the best service for all our customers. One aspect to achieve this is to improve customer experience when calling the UK based Technical Support Desk.

During February all customers, who recently had experience with our Support Desk, were asked to complete an online survey so we could gain valuable feedback that could be used to improve our service.

We would like to thank all those that took part in the survey. All completed surveys were entered into a prize draw for a chance to win a ZyXEL DMA-1000 Digital Media Streamer.

We are pleased to announce the winner of the prize draw for February is:

Mr Reid, Dover.

ZyXEL UK Customer Support Team

ZyXEL answers Call of Duty for Gamers: strikes first UK sponsorship deal with professional ...

ZyXEL UK — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Bracknell, 3rd March 2008: ZyXEL Communications UK Ltd (ZyXEL) today announces its sponsorship of professional gaming team, Team Dignitas – becoming the first networking vendor to partner with a UK-based gaming team.

The deal is the first of its kind by a UK networking manufacturer and places ZyXEL alongside Intel and Dell as key players in the fast-growing networked games marketplace.

The sponsorship will see ZyXEL provide hybrid wireless and PowerLine HomePlug-enabled routers and PowerLine HomePlug adapters to key players to improve their gaming experience and skills. Team Dignitas has been at the forefront of the world’s professional gaming community since it was set-up five years ago.

ZyXEL’s sponsorship will allow the UK’s top gamers to benefit from technologies designed with them specifically in mind – as part of the agreement Team Dignitas players will provide testing and product development consultancy for ZyXEL. Michael O’ Dell, Managing Director at Team Dignitas explains, “Working with a cool company that understands the gaming community and the technology we need is key to us. A reliable high-speed network is a critical part of all gamers’ armoury – and from our initial tests ZyXEL’s have out performed anything else currently available to the UK gaming community.

“Team members have already seen the benefits of ZyXEL equipment of PowerLine compared to wireless which will help our players have a better gaming experience as they train for some of the most prestigious on-line gaming events. We expect to see the benefit of this at tournaments over the next couple of months.

“We are looking forward to developing our relationship with ZyXEL and are pleased to have them as part of our team.”

Sarah Guy, Marketing Director at ZyXEL Communications UK explains, “We are delighted to be the only networking hardware vendor to sponsor Team Dignitas. We know that as LAN-based and online gaming grows, so technology will play an increasing part in the quality of the gaming experience.

“Our PowerLine technology offers the best of both worlds – PowerLine HomePlug wired connectivity for reducing lag and drop out that many gamers experience with current wireless technology, with a wireless connection for surfing and mobility.”

About Team Dignitas

Team Dignitas Limited was formed in 2003 with the aim to become one of the best professional gaming teams in the world.

We strive to maintain high standards in our gaming teams through the dedication of our players and staff. We wish to attend major esports events worldwide so that our players will be able to show off their skills to the world.

Visit Team Dignitas Website

Information on ZyXEL gaming & digital home products

ZyXEL Launches the Complete IP Network Solution for SMEs at CeBIT 08

ZyXEL UK — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Hsinchu, Taiwan, February 26, 2008 -- ZyXEL Communications Inc., the world’s leading end-to- end network solution provider, will showcase its complete portfolio of IP unified communications solutions for the Small to Medium size enterprise sector at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany - March 4th-9th.

“With the market’s most comprehensive portfolio of applications, ZyXEL enables small to medium businesses to take full advantage of the benefits of a unified IP communications network,” said Dr. Yuh-Long Chen, ZyXEL’s President. “Whether the business is changing its working practices - with new home-working schemes or opening up its network to customers and partners - ZyXEL will deliver the complete solution while eliminating cost and achieving clear productivity benefits for the organisation.”

Gigabit Security as Standard

With internal and external attacks on the increase, SMEs need an ultra high performance, deep packet inspection security platform to ensure truly secure and integrated networks. ZyXEL has built the market’s most comprehensive unified security portfolio. Its award winning ZyWALL Gigabit Ethernet Unified Security Gateway delivers cost effective and easy to manage security, streamlining the management and maintenance process to reduce operational cost while combating the growing threat from identity fraudsters, malicious viruses, worms, Trojans and disgruntled employees. Significantly, the ZyWALL USG 2000, a deep packet inspection security platform - incorporating firewall, IDP, content filtering anti-virus, anti-spam and VPN (Virtual Private Network) in a box, offers secure connections between headquarters, branch offices and other third parties, whether on a fixed or wireless connection.

Wi-Fi Control & Performance

Today’s network applications demand converged Wi-Fi voice, data and video services. Lacking the resources of larger enterprises, SMEs need a cost effective, easy to deploy wireless network solution, requiring low levels of support and maintenance while supporting the highest level of security and Quality of Service (QoS). To address this market, ZyXEL offers a choice of business WLAN architectures - Smart AP (Access Point) and WLAN Controller System - reducing the financial and resource burden on the IT team by eliminating complexity within the network, while creating a more streamlined and efficient wireless access management system.

Designed specifically for the SME market’s need for a manageable WLAN solution, ZyXEL provides a hybrid stand-alone AP (NWA-3160), capable of transferring to a centralised management structure at no extra cost. Benefiting from straight forward deployment and management, ZyXEL’s Hybrid AP helps SMEs leverage their existing infrastructure investment while delivering the flexibility to grow Access Points - and gain more wireless access channels on demand. ZyXEL’s Wi-Fi portfolio matches performance and security, and delivers the resilience demanded by today’s businesses who increasingly rely on wireless networks to offers staff the convenience and flexibility to ‘connect anywhere’ within their organizations.

Cost Effective Collaboration through VoIP

The drive to eliminate cost, improve end-user experience and streamline communications management, coupled with the developments in collaborative working practices, has driven demand for a more simplified and flexible unified communications infrastructure. ZyXEL’s IP PBX solution addresses this requirement, delivering a host of functions including call forwarding, desktop dial-in and crucially, the cost savings of a converged voice and data network.

Utilizing its highly intuitive Click-to-Talk call centre application, ZyXEL eliminates the bottlenecks and ensures significantly improved communication with customers, providing the catalyst for excellent customer service, increasing loyalty and revenue. In addition, ZyXEL’s IP-PBX web-based management system ensures rapid deployment and ease of maintenance – further reducing the burden on SME IT teams.

The Complete Gigabit Ethernet Solution

Delivering high speed connectivity for today’s cost conscious businesses, ZyXEL’s family of Ethernet switches range from the Chassis (module) switch, right through to 10 Gigabit network solution – providing the high availability businesses demand with minimal capital investment and maximum levels of scalability and performance. To complete the range, ZyXEL also offers cost competitive L3 (Layer3) switches and web managed L2 (Layer2) switches to enable enterprise grade, high-performance routing and connectivity to multiple LANs.

Come and meet ZyXEL at CeBIT – Hall 13, Booth C72.

ZyXEL Win Four Year Contract To Supply Carrier Ethernet Switches to Chunghwa Telecom

ZyXEL UK — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Hsinchu, Taiwan, February 26, 2008 -ZyXEL Communications today announced that it has won another tender from Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan’s largest incumbent telecom operator, for Carrier Ethernet switch deployment. For this large scale tender, ZyXEL will supply Chunghwa Telecom for its NGN (Next Generation Access Network) construction for Multimedia on Demand service deployment.

To meet the deployment needs of the NGN project, Chunghwa Telecom plans to invest 1.8 billion US dollars on this project and 6 billion US dollars for the whole network deployment in the next six years. According to the terms of the contract, ZyXEL will provide Chunghwa Telecom with Carrier Ethernet switches to deploy and build its FTTB (fiber-to-the-building). This supports the companies aims to form an integrated broadband service platform to offer residents, communities, and businesses with high-speed Internet access and Multimedia on Demand. Already long-term partners, Chunghwa Telecom has issued high praises for ZyXEL’s switches, which boast excellent reliability and performance. ZyXEL Ethernet switches have been earmarked by Chunghwa Telecom for four years.

“It’s been a source of encouragement and an honor for us to win the Chunghwa Telecom Gigabit Ethernet Switch tender again,” said Dr. Yuh-Long Chen, ZyXEL’s President. “ZyXEL has invested heavily in the development of central office equipment, especially carrier Ethernet equipment to fulfill different network topology demands from service providers. Given our considerable experience in the global market, we are confident in our capability to provide Chunghwa Telecom with top-quality products and technology again.”

Designed for Telco/ISP businesses, ZyXEL’s comprehensive central equipment include corporate product lines, Carrier Ethernet, WiMAX, xDSL and PON network solutions, meeting the highest Telco environment standards for IP multicasting, carrier-class Qaulity of Service, network security and system stability. ZyXEL equipment offers a mark of differentiation from the market for even the most demanding of customers. ZyXEL’s new “Metro series” Ethernet switches are particularly designed for Telco/ISP to deploy carrier class Quality of Service, scalability, reliability and service management.