In 2004, Alaxala Networks Corp. was originally established, as the merger between
Hitachi and
NEC networking hardware divisions. The name of
Alaxala was derived from "ALL Access for eXpert and Latent Association", and more that "Ala" in
Latin 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
fabless company, designing the products, mostly ordering to manufacture them to Hitachi enterprise servers division factory in
Hadano,
Kanagawa,
Japan. The company offers
networking hardware products,
network router and
network switch etc. Alaxala products are sold and installed mostly in
Japanese domestic market and for enterprises, but we can find several products at some
online shopping,
Amazon.com etc.. The business type and scope is same as
Allied Telesis, 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,
Itochu Techno-Solutions, Net One Systems, and Alaxala has contributed to offer the various networking hardware products to major communication companies in Japan, such as
NTT,
KDDI,
Softbank, and others. On August 24, 2012, Alaxala was known that
Tokyo Stock Exchange (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
Cisco,
Oracle, and others. On the 11th of March, 2021, Fortinet purchased a 75% stake in Alaxala ==See also==