Fujitsu celebrates 75 Years of innovation: 1935-2010

Company Brief

New Delhi, October 13, 2010

Fujitsu celebrates its 75th anniversary this year - a milestone few other global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies have reached. Fujitsu, the world's third-largest IT services provider has been a fundamental part of some of the IT and telecommunication industry's most notable breakthroughs and innovations - from the early days of telephone switching in the 1930s, the mainframe and parallel computing generation of the 1970s, the development and deployment of SONET networking in the 1980s, to more recent inventions such as palm vein (biometric) authentication, packet optical networking, and the world's first 3D Desktop PC.

Today, Fujitsu employs approximately 170,000 people worldwide, is present in 70 countries, reports revenues of ¥4.6 trillion ($50 billion) in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2010, and ranks #138 in Fortune's Global 500 list. To date, Fujitsu has filed for more than 94,000 patents and placed 11th on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's list of the Top 50 patent recipients of 2009. Fujitsu builds on this legacy for its clients - delivering end-to-end technology solutions, ranging from cloud computing and managed services to consulting and application integration and connection-oriented Ethernet, as well as telecommunications, server, storage, software, and mobile platform offerings.

Landmarks in Fujitsu History: Communications, Environmental Responsibility, Innovative Solutions.

The company's roots go back to 1923, rebuilding the telecommunications infrastructure in Japan after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 destroyed much of the public infrastructure in the Tokyo metropolitan region. In 1935, Fuji Tsushinki Manufacturing Corporation, which later became Fujitsu Limited, was founded as an offshoot of the communications division of Fuji Electric Co, Ltd.

The Fujitsu commitment to environmental responsibility began with designing its 1937 headquarters to be one of the world's first park-style business campuses. In 1972, the company established environmental control sections for all of its manufacturing plants. In 2007, Fujitsu was the first Silicon Valley company to install hydrogen fuel cell power. In April 2010, Greenpeace ranked Fujitsu #5 in its Cool IT Leaderboard, citing Fujitsu as "the first company to set a credible goal for the overall amount of carbon savings provided to its customers." Fujitsu is one of the few companies in the world to have an environmental vision that extends to the year 2100.

Key Fujitsu Innovations

1932 - Step-by-Step telephone switching machine

1945 - Fuji-type Model-3 telephone

1954 - FACOM 100 mainframe computer, Japan's first indigenous commercial office computer

1973 - World's first Single Channel Per Carrier (SCPC) satellite communications system - data line between the U.S. and Spain

1989 - Color plasma displays

1989 - First digital loop carrier and OC-3 (155.52 Mbps) SONET multiplexer

1992 - First OC-48 (2.488 Gbps) SONET multiplexer

2001 - World's first mobile computer offering built-in 64 Kbps wireless data transmission

2003 - Palm vein biometric authentication

2007 - First Packet Optical Networking Platform

2010 - World's first 3D Desktop PC

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