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

[3] In 1988, spouses Janie and Victor Tsao founded DEW International, later renamed Linksys, in the garage of their Irvine, California home.

[5] In 1992, the Tsaos began running Linksys full time and moved the company and its growing staff to a formal office.

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

[9] In July 2008, Cisco acquired Seattle-based Pure Networks, a vendor of home networking-management software.

[21] On September 24, 2021, Fortinet invested an additional $85 million in cash for shares of Series A Preferred Stock of Linksys.

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

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

[36][37] At CES 2021, Linksys announced a line of Velop mesh systems and routers that support Wi-Fi 6E.

Fortinet’s security stack runs on the device, blocking malware, ransomware, and filtering content.