, commonly known as its brand Alaxala, is a Japanese company headquartered in

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, that offers

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products.

Overview

Originally, in 2004, Alaxala Networks Corp. was established, as the merger between

Hitachi () is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is the parent company of the Hitachi Group (''Hitachi Gurūpu'') and had formed part of the Ni ...

and

NEC is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC. It prov ...

networking hardware divisions. The name of Alaxala was derived from "ALL Access for eXpert and Latent Association", and more that "Ala" in

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means "Wing", and "X" means "networking eXchange", so the company intended the two "Ala" (Hitachi and NEC) connected and collaborated by "X" tightly. The company is basically

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company, designing the products, mostly ordering to manufacture them to Hitachi enterprise servers division factory in

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. The company offers

products,

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and

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etc. Alaxala products are sold and installed mostly in

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and for enterprises, but we can find several products at some

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etc.. The business type and scope is same as

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, that is also the company in Japan. And they are collaborated for producing networking hardware sold in both brands. Alaxala official agencies are Hitachi, NEC,

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, Net One Systems, and Alaxala has contributed to offer the various networking hardware products to major communication companies in Japan, such as NTT,

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and

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etc.. On August 24, 2012, Alaxala was known that

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(TSE) announced that TSE core system outage happened due to the software bugs on Alaxala networking hardware. Alaxala also sponsors IT professional certifications for Alaxala products, like

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and

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etc..

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