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138          <li class="news-item" id="nwa-be-max-2026-09-15"><time class="news-item__date" datetime="2026-09-15">September 15, 2026</time><h2 class="news-item__title"><a href="#nwa-be-max-2026-09-15" title="Link to this update">NWA50BE MAX and NWA90BE MAX, coming soon</a></h2><p class="news-item__body">Two tri-band Wi-Fi 7 access points are now in the catalog: 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz, BE9300, one 2.5G port. NWA90BE MAX adds WPA-Enterprise and a captive portal. Both are marked "Coming soon" until they go on sale.</p></li>
139<li class="news-item" id="topology-redesign-2026-09-11"><time class="news-item__date" datetime="2026-09-11">September 11, 2026</time><h2 class="news-item__title"><a href="#topology-redesign-2026-09-11" title="Link to this update">The topology diagram redrawn</a></h2><p class="news-item__body">Links now run as right angles, the way a network diagram is normally drawn. The speed is labelled above each device as its uplink — 10G, 2.5G PoE. Each card shows the device photo, the full model name, a quantity badge and a line of specs: ports, Wi-Fi generation, transceiver reach. Transceivers, DAC cables and antennas from the project appear as a separate row at the bottom. Hovering a device dims the links that do not belong to it, and the PDF export carries the title and the legend inside the picture.</p></li>
140<li class="news-item" id="tz-download-2026-08"><time class="news-item__date" datetime="2026-08-17">August 17, 2026</time><h2 class="news-item__title"><a href="#tz-download-2026-08" title="Link to this update">A ready tender spec for any device in the catalog</a></h2><p class="news-item__body">"Download spec" — in the Device Selector cart, in the Project Builder and on a shared project — returns a finished tender specification: a sheet per model with the requirements and the quantity. The whole catalog is covered, transceivers and 4G/5G routers included.</p></li>
141<li class="news-item" id="smarter-search-2026-08"><time class="news-item__date" datetime="2026-08-12">August 12, 2026</time><h2 class="news-item__title"><a href="#smarter-search-2026-08" title="Link to this update">Search copes with an inexact query and with part numbers</a></h2><p class="news-item__body">Model search on the SMB Comparison page no longer needs the exact spelling. It copes with a vendor name in the query, with licence, region and hardware-revision suffixes, and with a whole tender line pasted in with its quantity — and it now searches by part number as well as by model.</p></li>
142<li class="news-item" id="cx3800-gs1915v2-2026-08"><time class="news-item__date" datetime="2026-08-02">August 2, 2026</time><h2 class="news-item__title"><a href="#cx3800-gs1915v2-2026-08" title="Link to this update">Two new switch series, coming soon</a></h2><p class="news-item__body">The CX3800 and GS1915 v2 series are now in the catalog, marked "Coming soon" until they go on sale. CX3800 brings 25G uplinks to the Project Builder — pick 25 Gbps in the Switching step and the access switches, core and SFP28 transceivers are selected to match.</p></li>
143<li class="news-item" id="tender-converter-2026-07"><time class="news-item__date" datetime="2026-07-20">July 20, 2026</time><h2 class="news-item__title"><a href="#tender-converter-2026-07" title="Link to this update">Tender BOM converter</a></h2><p class="news-item__body">Paste a whole tender list — competitor models or part numbers with quantities — and get similar Zyxel models for every line, with XLSX export and a one-click hand-off to the cart. Find it via the link under the search box on the SMB Comparison page.</p></li>
144<li class="news-item" id="share-links-2026-07"><time class="news-item__date" datetime="2026-07-17">July 17, 2026</time><h2 class="news-item__title"><a href="#share-links-2026-07" title="Link to this update">Share a project by link</a></h2><p class="news-item__body">Project Builder now has a Share button: send a read-only link with the BOM, totals and topology to a customer or colleague — they can view it, download the XLSX, or clone the project into their own Project Builder.</p></li>
145<li class="news-item" id="switch-catalog-2026-06"><time class="news-item__date" datetime="2026-06-02">June 2, 2026</time><h2 class="news-item__title"><a href="#switch-catalog-2026-06" title="Link to this update">Bigger competitor switch catalog</a></h2><p class="news-item__body">SMB Comparison now covers more Cisco, Huawei, Juniper, MikroTik, Ruijie and QTECH switch models.</p></li>
146<li class="news-item" id="algo-matching-2026-05"><time class="news-item__date" datetime="2026-05-26">May 26, 2026</time><h2 class="news-item__title"><a href="#algo-matching-2026-05" title="Link to this update">Smarter competitor matching</a></h2><p class="news-item__body">SMB Comparison picks the Zyxel equivalent algorithmically and shows up to three candidates, ranked by how closely they match, with a parameter-by-parameter table. Click the chips to tune which parameters are critical.</p></li>
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