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was established in 1956 as a manufacturer of electric wire and cable for power distribution. The company, based in Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, was formed from Hitachi Densen Works, the Hitachi Works spin-off
Spin-off

A spin-off is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one, such as a television series based on a pre-existing one, or a new company formed from a university research group or business incubator....
 previously known as Densen Works of Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd.

is a multinational corporation specializing in high-technology and services headquartered in Marunouchi Itchome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies....


In the half-century following the creation of the company, Hitachi Cable has expanded its business operations to include the manufacture of rubber, copper and optical products.






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was established in 1956 as a manufacturer of electric wire and cable for power distribution. The company, based in Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, was formed from Hitachi Densen Works, the Hitachi Works spin-off
Spin-off

A spin-off is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one, such as a television series based on a pre-existing one, or a new company formed from a university research group or business incubator....
 previously known as Densen Works of Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd.

is a multinational corporation specializing in high-technology and services headquartered in Marunouchi Itchome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies....


In the half-century following the creation of the company, Hitachi Cable has expanded its business operations to include the manufacture of rubber, copper and optical products. Although the company still actively engages in the development of raw materials for wires and cables, it has incorporated the development of telecommunications equipment into its product line. To that end, the product line now includes antennas and coaxial cables
Coaxial cable

Coaxial cable is a cable consisting of an inner conductor, surrounded by a tubular insulating layer typically made from a flexible material with a high dielectric constant, all of which is then surrounded by another conductive layer , and then finally covered again with a thin insulating layer on the outside....
, compound semiconductors and various electronic components, including a terminal antenna for wireless communication. The company has also developed the WirelessIP5000, a wireless
Wireless

Wireless communication is the transfer of information over a distance without the use of electrical conductors or "wires". The distances involved may be short or long ....
 IP phone
IP Phone

An IP phone uses Voice over IP technologies allowing telephone calls to be made over an IP network such as the internet instead of the ordinary PSTN system....
 that supports the Session Initiation Protocol
Session Initiation Protocol

The Session Initiation Protocol is a Signalling protocol, widely used for setting up and tearing down multimedia communication sessions such as Internet telephony and video calls over the Internet....
 (SIP).

As a related push into the IT
Information technology

Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to data conv...
 arena, Hitachi Cable has developed the Apresia18020, Japan's first Terabit
Terabit

A terabit is a unit of information or computer storage, abbreviated Tbit .1 terabit = 1012 bits = 1,000,000,000,000 bits . 1 terabit is equal to 125 gigabytes or 122 gibibytes....
 network switch
Network switch

A network switch is a computer networking device that connects computer network Network segment.The term commonly refers to a Network bridge that processes and routes data at the Data link layer of the OSI model....
, which has a switching capacity of 1.8 Terabits per second. The company is also one of more than a score of companies that support the consortium
Consortium

A consortium is an Professional body of two or more individuals, companies, organizations or governments with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal....
 known as the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
10GEA

The 10GEA was an independent organization which aimed to further 10 Gigabit Ethernet development and market acceptance. Founded in February 2000 by a consortium of companies, the organization provided IEEE with technology demonstrations and specifications....
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