Business Continuity
 Plan (BCP)

A plan intended to enable the continuation and early recovery of the core business in time of emergency, such as natural disasters, fire or terrorist attack.

Category 3

This category of IT and telecommunications equipment falls under the RoHS and WEEE Directives. Anritsu's network management products are included in this category.

Category 9

This category of monitoring and controlling equipment falls under the RoHS and WEEE Directives. Anritsu measuring instruments and checkweighers are included in this category. Category 9, however, is unrestricted by the RoHS Directive.

Chemical Recycling

Recycling of waste into chemicals and product material using a chemical method.

COSO ERM

Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission-Enterprise Risk Management: An internal control framework introduced in the year 2003 by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), a U.S. organization of certified public accountants, accounting scholars, board directors in charge of financial affairs and others.
ERM is the acronym for Enterprise Risk Management.

CS

Customer Satisfaction: Anritsu defines customer satisfaction as the condition when a customer finds higher-than-expected product and service quality and value of the kind provided for through Anritsu's philosophy.

CSR

Corporate Social Responsibility: Anritsu defines corporate social responsibility as the integration of social justice and environmental considerations into corporate operational processes and activities to fulfill the company's accountability to its stakeholders (such as shareholders, employees, customers, environment and community), thereby improving the company's economic, social and environmental performance.

Directory Service

An information environment where information on a network is managed in an integrated manner to facilitate search and browsing.

Environmental Load
Mass Balance

Environmental load comparative assessment using a table showing the volume and names of substances brought into a company and the volume and names of substances emitted from the company. This clearly presents the relationship between business activities and environmental load.

Environmental
Performance

The results of environment-improving activities by an organization based on its environment policy, objectives and targets, such as lower volume of waste generated, less use and management of chemical substances and attainment of goals.

Environmentally
Conscious Products

Anritsu defines environmentally conscious products as those that use the minimum necessary amount of valuable resources, are compact, lightweight and long-living, consume little power and do not harm human health when manufactured, used and disposed of.

Global Compact

A network of organizations supporting 10 principles on human rights, labor, environment and prevention of corruption. The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan advocated it at the World Economic Forum held in January 1999 and officially inaugurated at the U.N. Headquarters in New York in July 2000.

GRI

Global Reporting Initiative: An international non-governmental organization established in 1997. It creates and disseminates GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines as global standards for preparation of reports by organizations working to achieve a sustainable society.

Intelligent Solution
Creator

An "Intelligent Solution Creator" is a manufacturer that contributes to the progress of network society by creating, together with customers, superior solutions that increase customer value and cultivate new demand.

Internal Control

A mechanism set up and operated within a business, with an aim to (1) improve effectiveness and efficiency of business management, (2) ensure reliability of the company's financial reporting, and (3) encourage observance of laws related to business management.

Internship

A system giving students work experience at businesses for a certain period of time based on their majors and career plans.

IP-VPN

Internet Protocol-Virtual Private Network: A virtual private network (VPN) built using a wide-area Internet protocol communication network owned by a communication common carrier. VPN service allows a user to use a public line as if it was the user's dedicated line, at lower cost than introduction of an actual leased dedicated line requires.

ISMS Certification

Information Security Management System Certification: Examination and certification of proper management for information resources of organizations, such as companies, performed by a third party (such as BSI and JIPDEC), based on the standards provided by Japan Information Processing Development Corporation (JIPDEC). JIPDEC defines ISMS as the operation of an organization's management system by determining the necessary security level through the organization management's own risk assessment, formulating plans and distributing resources, as well as taking technical measures against individual problems.

ISO 14001

The international environmental management system standard set by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It was designed to minimize the impact of organizational activities on the environment.

Market-Driven

This characterizes market-led business driven by moves of the market. Anritsu understands this to include customer focus, or operating with customers in mind as the highest priority, and regards market-driven strategy as a key to realizing management vision.

Material Recycling

Recycling of waste into raw material.

Privacy Mark

A mark that can be applied to a business to certify proper management of personal information satisfying standards set by Japan Information Processing Development Corporation (JIPDEC).

Product Assessment

An advance assessment before design and development of products, conducted with consideration to environmental friendliness, with particular regard to energy saving, resource saving, recycling, safety and other environment-related characteristics.

Refurbish

Reconditioning or calibration of collected products for reuse.

Reuse

Use of products again.

RF Image Detection
Technology

Image processing technology to detect the shape of a buried object (for example, a land mine) by emitting radio-frequency (500MHz to 4GHz) electromagnetic waves from a measuring instrument and receiving the waves bounced back from the object.

RoHS Directive

Directive on Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment: European Union directive to limit use of specific hazardous substances in electric and electronic equipment.

Supply Chain

The flow of supply-side activities from procurement of raw material and components to delivery of products and services to end-users.

Thermal Recycling

Recovery of thermal energy from waste.

Ubiquitous Network
Society

Ubiquitous stems from a Latin word and means existing everywhere simultaneously. A ubiquitous network society allows us to exchange information through a network at any time, anywhere, by anybody.

WEEE Directive

Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment: European Union directive that obligates electric and electronic equipment manufacturers to collect and recycle products for waste reduction.

Zero Emission

Activities to eliminate waste emission by recycling waste emitted at businesses into raw material for manufacturing processes or other industries.