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Media Inquires:
Steven Kenney
skenney@hcm.hitachi.com
603-669-4347, ext. 229
Hitachi Cable Manchester will soon release Independently tested 10G cable
Manchester, NH June , 2005 – Hitachi
Cable Manchester will soon finish independent lab testing
on their new high performance 10
Gigabit, unshielded, twisted-pair (UTP) cable. The cable,
designed for 10 Gigabit Ethernet transmission speeds, is being
independently tested to the current 10 gigabit proposed standard,
IEEE 802.3an, and is scheduled to be released in the next few
weeks. The cable will utilize a unique, patent pending dual-jacket
construction that guarantees 10Gb/s performance and permits easy
installation and termination. The cable will be built at Hitachi’s
state-of-the-art 300,000 square-foot facility located in Manchester,
NH.
Steven Kenney, Marketing Manager for Hitachi Cable states that
the approach to releasing new products may differ from their competitors.
"Only when we have proven that our new 10 Gigabit cable exceeds
the proposed 10Gb/s standards will we make the product available.
Our cable will provide 10 Gigabit Ethernet to beyond 100 meters
and will also perform as designed independent of a specific connectivity
partner. As a cable manufacturer,
we want to give our customers the freedom to choose the connectivity
manufacturer that they want and not, necessarily, change to accommodate
a specific solutions' requirements."
The new cable has been designed and built in response to the
growing demand for high-performance communication cable. Recent
industry news indicated that network managers are more likely
to embrace a high-performance cable, such as Hitachi
Cable’s 10 Gigabit cable, than ever before. As the demand
for Category 5e
wanes and Category 6 installs steadily grow, the leap to cable
designed for 10 Gigabit Ethernet is a relatively small one. Industry
news also indicated that, in fact, over 15% of network managers
would install 10 Gigabit Ethernet copper cabling today.
Driving the need for higher-performance communication cabling
is the ever-growing need for bandwidth. High bandwidth needs in
industries such as financial, medical and scientific research,
require a cable infrastructure that can accommodate bandwidth
hungry applications such as streaming video, file transfer, medical
imaging and high-resolution graphics and images. Hitachi
Cable’s 10 Gigabit cable was designed for that purpose.
To learn more about other Hitachi Cable
products, visit the company website at http://www.hcm.hitachi.com. |
