was established in 1956 as a manufacturer of electric wire and cable for power distribution. The company, based in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
,
Japan, was formed from Hitachi Densen Works, the
Hitachi Works
() is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is the parent company of the Hitachi Group (''Hitachi Gurūpu'') and had formed part of the Nissan ''zaibatsu'' and later DKB Group and Fuyo Gr ...
spin-off previously known as Densen Works.
In the half-century following the creation of the company Hitachi Cables have expanded its business operations to include the manufacture of rubber
copper cable 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, compound
semiconductors and various electronic components, including a terminal antenna for wireless communication. The company has also developed the WirelessIP5000, a
wireless
Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer. The most ...
IP phone
A VoIP phone or IP phone uses voice over IP technologies for placing and transmitting telephone calls over an IP network, such as the Internet. This is in contrast to a standard phone which uses the traditional public switched telephone network ...
that supports the
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
As a related push into the
IT arena, has developed the Apresia18020, Japan's first
Terabit
The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented a ...
network switch
A network switch (also called switching hub, bridging hub, and, by the IEEE, MAC bridge) is networking hardware that connects devices on a computer network by using packet switching to receive and forward data to the destination device.
A netw ...
, 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 known as the
10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance, along with other top wire & cable Manufacturers like
Belden,
General Cable
General Cable is an American multinational cable manufacturing company based in Highland Heights, Kentucky, with sales offices and manufacturing facilities in several countries. General Cable manufactures and distributes copper, aluminum, and o ...
, and 1X Technologies.
Manchester
Hitachi Cable Manchester, Inc. (HCM) is a manufacturer of premises telecommunications, optical fiber and electronics cables headquartered in
Manchester, New Hampshire
Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous city in New Hampshire. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 115,644.
Manchester is, along with Nashua, one of two seats of New Ha ...
, and part of the Hitachi Cable division.
Products
*Copper premises cable: Category 6A UTP, Category 6A F/UTP, Category 6 UTP, Category 5e UTP, Category 5e and 6 outdoor, Category 6 GoldLAN hybrid, Category 5e GoldLAN hybrid, Category 5e power sum multi pair, Category 3 power sum multi pair, composite, ScTP, under carpet, and UTP cable.
*Fiber optic cable: Indoor interconnect, indoor multi-unit, indoor single-unit, indoor loose tube no-gel, indoor/outdoor central tube, indoor/outdoor loose tube, indoor/outdoor tight buffered multimode/singlemode, outside plant armored, and outside plant loose tube fiber optic cable.
*Electronic round cable: Coaxial, general purpose 24AWG, HDMI, IEEE 1284, IEEE 1394, Infiniband, probe, SCSI, Serial ATA, USB, and VGA electronic round cable.
*Electronic ribbon cable: Multicolor planar, microzip planar, PVC ribbonized MCX, SCSI micro quick twist, shielded, and wide pitch planar ribbon cable.
References
External links
Hitachi (Global)Hitachi (Japan)North America Portal
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Manufacturing companies established in 1956
Wire and cable manufacturers
Japanese companies established in 1956