DZS Inc. is a provider of fiber access and optical telecommunications networking and cloud software technology. The company was founded in 1999. It is headquartered in Plano. DZS is ISO 9001:2008 certified in the manufacture and service of telecommunications equipment.

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DZS Inc.

Company type	Public
Traded as	Nasdaq: DZSI Russell 2000 Index component
Industry	Communication Equipment
Founded	1999; 25 years ago (1999)
Headquarters	Plano, Texas
Key people	Charlie Vogt (CEO) Misty Kawecki (CFO)
Revenue	US$376 million (FY 2022)[1]
Operating income	US$3 million (FY 2022)[1]
Net income	US$4 million & US$0.15 per share (FY 2022)[1]
Number of employees	800
Website	dzsi.com investor.dzsi.com

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DZS was founded as Zhone Technologies in September 1999 by former executives of Ascend Communications Jeanette Symons, Mory Ejabat and Robert Dahl. In 2016 Zhone Technologies merged with DASAN Network Solutions to form DASAN Zhone Solutions Inc. (DZSI)^[2]

In August 2020, Charlie Vogt was named CEO and DASAN Zhone became DZS.^[3]

• TELUS Chooses DZS Cloud for Network Service Orchestration, Slice Management, Software Automation
• TalkTalk and DZS Team Up to Deliver the Right Customer Experience
• DZS and Korean Partner Make Leap to Multi-Gigabit Speeds

DZS has acquired the following companies since 2020:

• Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment, Inc. (ASSIA) ^[4]
• RIFT ^[5]
• Optelian^[6]

• Products

• Access Edge
• Subscriber Edge
• Optical Edge
• Cloud Edge
• Professional Services

• Rakuten Symphony
• TalkTalk
• KT formerly Korea Telecom
• Liberty Latin America
• Telus

• CloudCheck received the Light Reading Leading Lights award for delivering the most Outstanding Customer Experience by powering Liberty Latin America’s WiFi360 launch
• DZS Velocity V6 fiber access system received The Big Innovation 2023 Award
• DZS C1216RO Mobile xHaul solution at Rakuten Mobile received The Asian Telecom Best Infrastructure Initiative Award
• DZS Saber 4400 Optical EDGE transport solution, Velocity V6 and Software Defined Network Operating System (sdNOS) embedded software platform all received Lightwave Innovation Review honors
• DZS Cloud (Xtreme and CloudCheck) received the Cloud Computing Excellence Award