15 Facts About Linksys

Linksys is an American brand of data networking hardware products mainly sold to home users and small businesses.

Linksys products include WiFi routers, mesh WiFi systems, Wifi extenders, access points, network switches, and WiFi networking.

Linksys products are sold direct-to-consumer from its website, through online retailers and marketplaces, as well as off-the-shelf in consumer electronics and big-box retail stores.

Linksys received a major boost in 1995, when Microsoft released Windows 95 with built-in networking functions that expanded the market for its products.

Linksys established its first US retail channels with Fry's Electronics and Best Buy.

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In 2018, Belkin and its subsidiaries, including Linksys, were acquired by Foxconn, a Taiwanese multinational electronics firm and the largest provider of electronics manufacturing services, for $866 million.

Linksys initially sold connectors for PCs and printers before newer forms of connecting home and business networks through wired Ethernet and wireless technologies.

Linksys Aware was introduced in 2019 as a first-to-market home monitoring system that alerts users to movement in their home through the Velop Triband system.

In 2020, Linksys released Linksys Shield, a parental control subscription service for the Velop AC2200 Triband that allows users to manage or block online content.

Linksys released its first WiFi router in 2001 and has maintained early router releases for newer generations of WiFi.

In 2017, Linksys launched the Velop line, a multi-unit tri-band mesh router system that uses three WiFi radios.

In January 2022, Linksys launched Hydra Pro 6, a scaled-back version of the 6E model.

In 2020, Linksys debuted 5G mobile hotspots, modems, mesh gateways, and outdoor routers.

At CES 2021, Linksys announced a line of Velop mesh systems and routers that support WiFi 6E.

In 2018, Linksys released its cloud-based WiFi management for business-class access points, the Linksys Cloud Manager.