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Research & Development
Focus on Research and Development.
The company is committed to research and development to ensure that it will continue
to provide the most cost-effective networking solutions available, so that more
users can access the benefits of today's technology.
D-Link's research and development concentrates on three segments: SoHo/workgroup,
departmental, and consumer/home networking. This entails solving bottlenecks
within LANs, between LANs and WANs and to the Internet. The final aim is to provide
high speed at low prices, to improve the price/performance ratio, which is the
most important factor in D-Link's success.
The communications and networking industry is known
for its sudden changes and ongoing innovation, which
presses companies to improve constantly. First, there
was the need and urgency to create a fast, inexpensive
bridge between PCs and the network. Then came the need
to create a link from mobile and home users to office
networks and the Internet. Today, voice, data and video
are being integrated in the same network, changing traditional
telecommunications and networking technologies.
D-Link has concentrated on these challenges, adapting
its research and development to the sudden changes in
the industry. It has focused on new technologies such
as Gigabit, IP telephony, broadband access, wireless
and Internet applications and has continued to concentrate
on reducing the costs of products such as Nics and switches,
creating better designs at more competitive prices. This
strategy requires an excellent long-term organisation
of research and development efforts.
D-Link has Research and Development (R&D) centres
located in Hsinchu and Hsi-chih in Taiwan, Irvine in
California, Chengdu in China and Goa in India. The Chinese
and Indian teams focus on software engineering and product
testing. The Taiwanese team concentrates on mid-range
hardware/firmware and the American team develops technology-driven
high-end products.
The company has entered into several technological
alliances to develop new technologies. D-Link joined
the industry-wide Fast Ethernet Alliance in August 1995
and the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance in 1998. In 1999, D-Link
developed advanced technologies for broadband access,
voice-data convergence, high-speed backbones and web-related
application software by means of technical alliances
with Clarent and Marconi and the establishment of the
Infotech Center.
Today, D-Link is an active participant in the key organisations
that are shaping the networking industry, including IEEE,
SNMP, PCMCIA, PCI and ATM. D-Link's Research and Development
teams shape innovation and help technology to evolve,
securing the Company at the fore of technological advancement. |
