Stock Report: JDS Uniphase Corp. (JDSU) Report Updated: Nov 16, 2009  |  Print This Page

JDS Uniphase Corporation provides communications test and measurement solutions, and optical products to telecommunications service providers, cable operators, and network equipment manufacturers. The company’s Communications Test and Measurement segment provides test tools, platforms, and services for optical transport networks, DSL services, data networks, cable networks, digital video broadcast, and fiber characterization services; and instruments, service assurance systems, and services for communications network operators and equipment manufacturers that deliver and/or operate broadband/IP networks deploying triple- and quad-play services. This segment serves communications service providers, communications equipment manufacturers, government organizations, and corporate customers. Its Communications and Commercial Optical Products segment offers transmission products consisting of optical transceivers and transponders, and supporting components, such as modulators and source lasers, including vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; and transport products comprising amplifiers and reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers and supporting components, such as pump lasers, passive devices, and array waveguides. This segment serves optical communications, laser, and photovoltaic markets. The company’s Advanced Optical Technologies segment offers multilayer product security technologies for protection against diversion, brand erosion, and lost revenue due to counterfeiting; and optical thin-film coatings for various applications in night-vision goggles, satellite solar covers, medical instrumentation, optical communications components, fax machines, computer-driven projectors, and event lighting for government and aerospace, biomedical, telecommunications, office automation, and other markets. It also offers color solutions for product finishes and decorative packaging. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.