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Product Design & Distribution
D-Link has largely contributed to what the world perceives
networking to be, both in business and in the home. It is
sometimes easy to overlook how quickly the Internet and
computer networking have changed the way we do business
and how we communicate.
For over 21 years, D-Link has taken the initiative in providing this
technology, and making it accessible to businesses of any size, as
well as consumers all over the world.
All along this journey, D-Link engineers have been the innovators.
Founder Ken Kao once said, “D-Link’s core competency is in
Ethernet networking, and the Company drives innovation and
development by producing a wide range of powerful, high-end
wired and wireless networking solutions for home and businesses
at the enterprise, workgroup, and departmental processing levels.”
This means that D-Link does more than sell competing products
to those of other enterprise-class switch manufacturers: the
Company continues to pioneer the industry. D-Link’s xStack line,
for example, includes world-class, fully-managed switches
available at a fraction of the cost of its competitors, backed by
D-Link’s renowned reliability. D-Link engineers apply the same
innovative drive to business-class WLAN, storage and security
products for medium and large enterprise.
D-Link's consumer products are known all over the world.
Industry leading design and functionality, again supported by
D-Link reliability, both create and serve a growing demand for
networking at home and in the small office. With a foundation
built upon the best-reviewed Wireless N routers in the industry,
the digital home includes innovative network storage, Internet
cameras, media players and IP telephony.
From fully-managed switches for enterprises to award-winning
802.11n routers for the home and SOHO, D-Link fuels and fills a
global demand to work, communicate and recreate, by taking full
advantage of the benefits of broadband. And because D-Link
owns most of its supply chain, its products are feature-rich and
competitively priced.
Producing goods for a global marketplace, D-Link expands each
year to establish an ever-increasing number of localized business
units. Being operated as a global brand, customers view D-Link
products as being promoted and distributed by people they
know, whether they are in South Africa, Brazil, the Czech Republic,
or any of the 127 offices around the world.
This means that there is coordinated teamwork to produce
cutting-edge products distributed to every corner of the world.
Local teams communicate their local needs that D-Link
headquarters fills from its own state-of-the-art manufacturing
facilities within timeframes that its competitors cannot match.
D-Link’s motto is “Building Networks for People.” It is a way of
doing business that is proven one customer at a time.