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Product

Zyxel unified security firewall appliance series for small and mid-sized businesses, including the 50AX/100AX Wi-Fi models. It is available as a hardware appliance. It is recorded as supporting application control, central management console, deep packet inspection and high availability. Its record also notes intrusion prevention (ips), ssl/tls inspection, stateful inspection and vpn gateway. The stated market is small and medium business.

Current Version
5.45
Market
SMB
Licence
Paid
Price
Paid · price unknown
Record Created
2026-09-19
Last Updated
2026-10-28

Vendor

Zyxel is a Taiwanese networking manufacturer founded in Hsinchu in 1989, best known for the modems, routers and switches it sells to homes, small businesses and internet providers. Its security products sit at the small and mid-size end of the market, where the buyer wants one appliance rather than a security programme. The USG FLEX series is the main firewall line, with the USG FLEX H series as the current hardware generation, and the ATP series above it adding sandboxing and threat intelligence subscriptions. Both are managed through Zyxel's Nebula cloud platform, which is how its resellers administer many small sites at once. It competes on price and simplicity rather than on depth, and like other appliance makers here it is not assessed by the malware laboratories. Vendor page →

Website
zyxel.com
Country
Taiwan
Headquarters
Hsinchu, Taiwan
Year Established
1989
Customers
1M business customers
Users
20M users
Revenue
≈ $784.2M (2025)

Platforms

Hardware Appliancenative

Target Market

SMB primary

Capabilities

Stateful Inspectionkeynative
Intrusion Prevention (IPS)keynative
Intrusion Detection (IDS)Not known
SSL/TLS Inspectionkeynative
VPN Gatewaykeynative
SD-WANNot known
Application Controlkeynative
High Availabilitypartial
Deep Packet Inspectionnative
Central Management Consolenative

2 of 10 not yet known — not recorded, which is not the same as not supported.

Specifications

Firewall TypeNetwork (NGFW / UTM)

4 other specifications for this category not yet known.

Pricing

PlanLicencePriced perBilledPrice
SummaryOne-off purchasenot statedperpetual licenceNot known

Versions

  • 5.45platform not recordedreleased 2026-10-19

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

Not tested This product does not appear in any test run CSI holds. That is not a low score.

Certifications

Not known

Change History

This record was created 2026-09-19. Everything below is what has changed since.

  • 2026-10-28New versionNew version: 5.45evidence
  • 2026-10-13New versionNew version: 5.43evidence
  • 2026-10-08Capability addedHigh Availability: limitedevidence
  • 2026-10-08Capability addedCentral Management Console: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-08Capability addedSSL/TLS Inspection: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedDeep Packet Inspection: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedApplication Control: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedVPN Gateway: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedIntrusion Prevention (IPS): built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedStateful Inspection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-20Pricing plan addedPrice: one-off purchaseevidence
  • 2026-09-20Platform addedRuns on Hardware Applianceevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product createdNew product, listed in Network Firewallevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product updatedSold to: SMBevidence

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