A cable wherein even when there is a substantial volume of cable identifying
information
for identifying the cable, all of that cable identifying information can be simply
and speedily written-in. This cable has a cable core, an integrated member with
a chain of RFIDs including a plurality of RFID elements arranged at suitable intervals
along a longitudinal direction of the cable core, to and from which cable identifying
information can be written-in and read-out by transmission of electromagnetic energy,
and a transmission coaxial cable for collectively writing-in cable identifying
information to all of the RFID elements.