JDSU

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.jdsu.com
Employees: 4,000
Employee growth: (43.7%)

JDS Uniphase (JDSU) is drawn to the warming glow of optical networks. Its Communications Test and Measurement division makes instruments and test tools used in optical and data networks, DSL services, cable networks, and digital video broadcast equipment. Its Communications and Commercial Optical Communications unit produces optical transmission and transport products, lasers, and photovoltaic cells and receivers sold to makers of network and other equipment. Advanced Optical Technologies makes optical coating and holographic technologies to protect documents, transaction cards, and consumer electronics against counterfeiting. JDSU sells to the networking, communications, medical, aerospace, and defense markets.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending June, 2009:
Sales: $1,294.4M
One year growth: (15.4%)
Net income: ($866.4)M

Officers:
Chairman: Martin A. (Marty) Kaplan
President, CEO, and Director: Thomas H. (Tom) Waechter
EVP and CFO: David W. Vellequette

Competitors:
Agilent Technologies
Finisar
Spirent

Incorporated: 1999
NAIC: 334413 Semiconductors and Related Device Manufacturing;
SIC: 3674 Semiconductors & Related Devices; 3678 Electronic Connectors

JDS Uniphase Corporation is a high technology company that designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes a wide range of products for the growing fiberoptic communications market. The company's fiberoptic components and modules are used by system manufacturers worldwide to develop advanced optical networks for the telecommunications and cable television industries.

Fiberoptic systems work by turning digitized information into rapid-fire pulses of invisible infrared light generated by a laser beam. To increase bandwidth, researchers developed new systems that could split light into many more wavelengths, each carrying a separate stream of data. This technology, known as wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), is what JDS Uniphase specializes in. Riding the demand for more bandwidth that has been fueled by the growth of the Internet and electronic commerce, JDS Uniphase stock has been extremely popular with investors. For 1999 its stock rose 814 percent, then added another 77 percent by mid-March 2000.

JDS Fitel Inc. was formed in 1981 by Jozef Strauss and three coworkers at Bell-Northern Research Ltd., the now-defunct research arm of what became Nortel Networks Corporation, in Canada. As employees of Bell Northern, they were part of a team of physicists and engineers assigned to design components for Nortel's first generation of fiberoptic systems. Strauss and his coworkers decided to establish their own business making components for fiberoptic networks. They called it JDS, using the last-name initials of the cofounders Philip Garel-Jones, Gary Duck, William Sinclair, and Strauss.

By 1990 JDS Fitel had grown to 70 employees and $7 million a year in sales. Demand for fiberoptics, which had been predictably linear during the 1980s, would grow exponentially following the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990. By making it possible to combine text with graphics, which typically require more bandwidth, the Web stimulated demand for more bandwidth, or network capacity. With the addition of video and audio files, even more bandwidth was needed. Demand began to soar following the introduction of the first commercial Web browser in 1994, Netscape Navigator.

In March 1996 JDS Fitel completed its initial public offering (IPO) and raised C$93.6 million before underwriting expenses. Following the IPO the Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. of Japan retained a majority interest in JDS Fitel of about 55 percent. For fiscal 1996 ending May 31 JDS Fitel had C$74.8 million in revenues, up 21.5 percent from fiscal 1995, and net income of C$12.9 million compared to net income of C$10.4 million in fiscal 1995.

In February 1997 JDS Fitel entered into a strategic alliance with Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. (OCLI) to capitalize on the growing opportunities in the dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) business. Revenues rose substantially in fiscal 1997 to C$115 million, while net income more than doubled to C$8.3 million. In November 1997 the company raised net proceeds of C$118.4 million through a secondary public offering.

In May 1998 the company acquired a 68 percent interest in FITEL-Photomatrix (Canada) Inc. from The Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. for C$20.4 million. FITEL-Photomatrix designed and manufactured WDM and related products. Later in the year JDS Fitel acquired the remaining 32 percent of the company for C$13.6 million. For fiscal 1998 sales nearly doubled to C$227.2 million, while net income more than doubled to C$22.5 million.

In November 1998 JDS Fitel acquired the Akzo Nobel Photonics business unit from Netherlands-based Akzo Nobel N.V. Akzo Nobel Photonics was a world leader in waveguide technology for optical switching.

Uniphase Corporation became a public company in 1993. It manufactured red helium and blue argon gas lasers for printing, biomedical, and other applications. Its helium neon lasers were used in bar code readers. The company then developed a new automatic defect classification system for semiconductor wafers that it called Ultrapointe. During the semiconductor boom of 1994-96 Ultrapointe helped the company grow. The assets of the Ultrapointe business were sold to Tencor Instruments in December 1996.

In 1995 Uniphase acquired the United Technologies Photonics Division, which became the core of Uniphase Telecommunications Products (UTP). It made lithium niobate-based modulators that are used to convert electronic signals to optical. UTP also made optical transmission equipment. UTP grew so fast over the next two years that Uniphase became focused entirely on the communications market. In 1996 Uniphase bought a U.K. laser packaging company that formed the base of its operations there. For fiscal 1996 ending June 30, Uniphase reported sales of $69 million compared to $42.3 million in fiscal 1995. Net income for fiscal 1996 rose to $2.8 million from $735,000 in fiscal 1995.

In 1997 Uniphase acquired Australian-based Indx, a leader in fiberoptic reflection filters for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), and renamed it the Uniphase Fiber Components division. Indx was managed by Dr. Simon Poole, a co-inventor of the erbium-doped fiberoptic amplifier (EDFA).

In March 1997 Uniphase acquired the laser diode manufacturing unit of IBM, located in Zurich, Switzerland, and renamed it Uniphase Laser Enterprise AG. Uniphase moved its European laser research to Zurich and subsequently closed Uniphase Lasers Ltd. in Rugby, England. In March 1998 the company opened its European semiconductor laser fabrication plant in Zurich at a cost of about $20 million. In June 1998 Uniphase acquired Philips Optoelectronics B.V., the Netherlands-based laser operations of Philips Electronics N.V., and renamed it Uniphase Netherlands. These developments made Uniphase the dominant supplier of transmitter lasers used in fiberoptic networks for the telecommunications and cable television industries.

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, Uniphase reported net sales of $185.2 million, up from $107 million in fiscal 1997, and a net loss of $19.6 million compared to a net loss of $18.9 million in fiscal 1997. JDS Fitel had sales of C$227.2 million (US$162.2 million) and net income of C$47.6 million (US$34 million) in fiscal 1998. In November 1998 Uniphase acquired Broadband Communications Products, which became Uniphase Broadband Products, Inc.

In 1998 Jozef Straus approached Uniphase CEO Kevin Kalkhoven. Uniphase was a leading supplier of active fiber components, including lasers, to leading telecommunications equipment providers such as Nortel, Lucent Technologies, and Alcatel SA of France. JDS Fitel specialized in so-called passive components. Together, JDS and Uniphase would be able to supply customers with a full range of fiberoptic hardware. When the merger was announced in January 1999, it was valued at C$6.1 billion (US$4.7 billion).

On June 28, 1999, the stockholders of JDS Fitel Inc. and Uniphase Corporation approved the merger of the two companies to form JDS Uniphase Corporation. While they had little overlap in products, the two companies shared a tremendous overlap in customers. The merger created an independent supplier with a broader portfolio of components and modules for modern communications systems.

Kevin Kalkhoven became co-chairman and CEO, while Jozef Straus became co-chairman, president, and chief operating officer (COO). Shares of JDS Uniphase began trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol JDSU, while shares of JDS Uniphase Canada Ltd. began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol JDU. The two companies began combined operations starting July 1, 1999, the start of its new fiscal year.

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, the company reported pro forma combined sales of $587.9 million and net income of $124.9 million. Separately, Uniphase Corporation reported net sales of $282.8 million and a net loss of $171.1 million. The loss was due in part to a reevaluation of the cost of acquired research and development in connection with the Uniphase Netherlands acquisition. JDS Fitel, Inc. reported sales of C$456 million (US$305.7 million) and net income of C$99 million (US$66.4 million) for its fiscal year ending May 31, 1999.

In August 1999 JDS Uniphase raised $602.8 million through a public offering of more than nine million shares of common stock of JDS Uniphase and more than 500,000 exchangeable shares of JDS Uniphase Canada. The U.S. shares were priced at $82.625 a share. In September 1999 the company acquired AFC Technologies, a Quebec-based developer of optical amplifiers and broadband instruments. In October 1999 it acquired Ramar Corporation, a Massachusetts-based developer of lithium niobate-based integrated optical components. JDS Uniphase planned to integrate Ramar into its modulator business, which produced lithium niobate modulator components for the telecommunications industry.

In November 1999 JDS Uniphase announced a merger with Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. for about $2.8 billion in stock. The two companies had operated a successful joint venture since 1997. OCLI was a leading manufacturer of optical thin film coatings and components used to control and enhance light propagation to achieve specific effects. This technology, essential in the fiberoptic telecommunications industry and other important markets, was becoming increasingly important as the demand for bandwidth continued to drive system manufacturers to increase the number of wavelengths in their wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems. The merger would enable JDS Uniphase to expand its product lines, speed up product development, and obtain access to a key technology for building the optical telecommunications networks of the future. The merger was completed in February 2000, with OCLI continuing to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of JDS Uniphase.

At the same time JDS Uniphase completed its acquisition of EPITAXX, Inc., a New Jersey-based supplier of optical detectors and receivers for fiberoptic telecommunications and cable television networks, for approximately 2.2 million shares of common stock valued at $400 million.

In December 1999 the company completed its acquisition of SIFAM Ltd., a United Kingdom-based maker of fused component products that are used to split, combine, and filter light in optical fiber, for £60 million. Many of SIFAM's products were critical components in optical amplifiers.

Responding to high levels of demand for its fiberoptic products, JDS Uniphase announced plans at the end of 1999 to invest $125 million to expand its production capacity by adding 600,000 square feet and related capital equipment to its global operations. The largest single expansion would take place in Ottawa, Canada, where the company would begin construction of the third phase of its main campus facility, consisting of about 360,000 square feet of additional R & D, manufacturing, and office facilities. The remaining 240,000 square feet would be added to operations around the world in Sydney, Australia; Chalfont, Pennsylvania; Bloomfield, Connecticut; West Trenton, New Jersey; Melbourne, Florida; and Torquay, England. The expansions would bring the company's total square footage to more than 2.1 million square feet.

At the start of 2000 JDS Uniphase announced a merger with E-TEK Dynamics Inc. for $15 billion in stock. E-TEK had 2,450 employees and was headquartered in San Jose, California. It was a leader in the design and manufacture of high quality passive components and modules for fiberoptic systems, including wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs) that increased the capacity of new and existing fiberoptic networks. The company also made components such as isolators, couplers, and integrated optics that were important in enabling optical communications systems. Following the merger E-TEK would operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of JDS Uniphase.

JDS Uniphase announced it would introduce more than 30 new products at OFC 2000, a major fiberoptics show taking place in March 2000. It was the broadest array of new products introduced by JDS Uniphase to date and represented intense new product development activities. The new optical components and modules would serve a wide range of applications in the telecommunications and cable television industries, including optical transmission, amplification, dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), switching and network control, data communications, and optical instrumentation.

The acquisitions continued in 2000 as the company announced an agreement to acquire Cronos Integrated Microsystems, Inc., a North Carolina-based provider of optical MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) devices to the telecommunications industry, for $750 million in stock. MEMS technology was expected to play a key role in future generations of optical components. Before the year was out, the company was expected to command a workforce in excess of 12,000, a phenomenal increase, considering it listed fewer than 100 just a decade earlier.

Principal Subsidiaries

E-TEK Dynamics Inc.; Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc.; Uniphase Laser Enterprise AG (Switzerland); Uniphase Broadband Products, Inc.; Uniphase Netherlands.

Principal Operating Units

Active Products Group; Transmission and Test Group; Laser Subsystems Group.

Principal Competitors

Corning Inc.; Fujitsu America Inc.; Lucent Technologies Inc.

Further Reading

Austen, Ian, 'Supplier to the Stars,' Canadian Business, May 29, 1998, p. 81.

Donlon, J.P., 'Photon Man,' Chief Executive (U.S.), May 1999, p. 30.

Gilder, George, 'Paradigm Party,' Forbes, August 24, 1998, p. S95.

Laver, Ross, 'An Empire Built on Light,' Maclean's, March 27, 2000, p. 46.

Slocum, Kevin C., 'The Making of a Powerhouse,' Electronic News (1991), April 3, 2000, p. 48.

'Uniphase Corp.,' CDA-Investnet Insiders' Chronicle, May 16, 1994, p. 16.

'Uniphase Selling Ultrapointe Business to Tencor,' Electronic News (1991), December 16, 1996, p. 32.

— David P. Bianco

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JDSU

Type	Public (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU)
Founded	Merger of JDS Fitel and Uniphase Corporation in 1999
Headquarters	Milpitas, California, United States
Number of locations	80 offices, serving customers in more than 160 countries
Key people	Thomas H. Waechter, President & CEO David Vellequette, Chief Financial Officer
Industry	Optical products and broadband communications
Products	Communications test and measurement equipment; optical communications components, modules, and subsystems. Lasers used for biotechnology, semiconductor manufacturing, and materials processing. Thin film coatings, components, and assemblies used to manage light for displays, instrumentation, office automation, and aerospace/defense. Optical solutions for brand protection and document authentication; and decorative coatings for brand enhancement and differentiation
Net income	▲$1.4 Billion USD (FY2008)
Employees	~7,000 (2008)
Website	www.jdsu.com

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) is a company that designs and manufactures products for optical communications products, communications test and measurement equipment, lasers, optical solutions for authentication and decorative applications, and other custom optics. It is headquartered in Milpitas, California, USA. It was formerly known as JDS Uniphase, prior to a rebranding of its corporate image on September 14, 2005. The legal entity is now called JDS Uniphase Corporation, whereas elsewhere the company always refers to itself as JDSU.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Shareholder litigation 1.2 Acquisitions 2 Litigation references 3 References 4 External links

History

JDSU was formed by the 1999 merger between two fiber-optic companies, JDS Fitel of Canada and Uniphase Corporation in the US, and became known as JDS Uniphase subsequent to the merger. In 1981, JDS Fitel was founded by Jozef Straus, Philip Garel-Jones, Gary Duck, and Bill Sinclair. The "JDS" is short for Jones, Duck and Sinclair. JDS Uniphase had two corporate headquarters, one at 3000 Merivale Road, Ottawa and the other in San Jose, California. Three other major fiber companies merged with JDS Uniphase during the telecom boom: OCLI based in Santa Rosa, California, and E-TEK Dynamics and SDL, both based in San Jose, California. With the downturn in the telecom business that started in 2000, JDSU moved its headquarters first to San Jose, California, and then in 2006 to nearby Milpitas.

JDS Uniphase stock was a high-flyer tech stock investor favorite. Its stock price doubled three times and three stock splits of 2:1 occurred roughly every 90 days during the last half of 1999 through early 2000, making millionaires of many employees who were stock option holders, and further enabling JDS Uniphase to go on an acquisition and merger binge. After the telecom downturn, JDS Uniphase announced in late July 2001 the largest (up to then) write-down of goodwill and business losses in business history: $45 billion. Employment soon dropped as part of the Global Realignment Program from nearly 29,000 to approximately 5,300, many of its factories and facilities were closed around the world, and the stock price dropped from $153 per share to less than $2 per share. Especially hard-hit were the R&D activities and researcher jobs related to producing new OC-768 (40 Gbit/s) and OC-192 (10 Gbit/s) products, which were largely terminated in light of the shift in market interest to continuing with legacy OC-48 (2.5 Gbit/s) data rate products.

The logo of the former JDS Uniphase was an open multi-colored box, intended to evoke a feeling of thinking "outside the box" among employees. The logo of the new re-branded JDSU represents the cycle of innovation that begins and ends with the customer.

On September 23, 2005, JDSU announced a reverse stock split one-to-eight to one-to-ten.[1] On December 2, 2005 JDSU stock holders authorized the reverse stock split after its 2005 annual meeting.

Epitaxx was absorbed by JDS Uniphase in the 1990s; Alka Swanson was the general manager of this branch of the corporation.

As of July 2009, JDSU stock trades just over $5 (split adjusted $0.67), a far cry from its all time high of $153. Analysts like Jim Cramer laud the stock, citing the new interests that telecommunications companies now have in optical fiber telephone and Internet services. Verizon FiOS is an example of a fiber optic service that may benefit JDSU in the future.

Shareholder litigation

After the 2001 crash of the telecommunications industry, the state of Connecticut filed a lawsuit against the company and four key executives, claiming that they had, and hid from company shareholders, advance knowledge of the company's impending downturn. Unlike most similar lawsuits, which are dismissed or settled before trial, Connecticut's lawsuit went to trial in October, 2007. JDSU was acquitted of all charges in November, 2007.^[1]

Acquisitions

2009 Acquisitions

Finisar's Network Tools division In July 2009, JDSU acquired the assets of Finisar's Network Tools division, a leading provider of storage area network (SAN) protocol test tools, software, and services (Xgig, Bus Doctor, Medusa Labs). This division is now the Storage Network Test group (SNT) within JDSU's Communication Test and Measurement division and is based in California.

2008 Acquisitions

American Bank Note Holographics, Inc. In February 2008, JDSU purchased ABNH, a company that originated, produced, and marketed holograms for security applications, and supplied optical security devices for the transaction card market. It is part of the JDSU Advanced Optical Technologies business.

Westover Scientific, Inc. In January 2008, JDSU purchased Westover Scientific’s Fiber Optic Division, adding fiber optic inspection and cleaning solutions to JDSU’s existing fiber field and lab and production test portfolio in its communications test and measurement segment.

2007 Acquisitions

Innocor Ltd. In May 2007, JDSU purchased Innocor, a Canadian provider of broadband test solutions for network equipment manufacturers, established in 1995. Innocor designs, manufactures and markets broadband test solutions that address multiprotocol and bit error rate testing from 10Mbps to 43Gbps. Innocor offered a wide range of broadband test solutions, one of the most successful being the Testpoint family.

The merger strengthened JDSU’s position in the North American lab and production markets and helped grow the company’s business in the Europe-Middle East-Africa and Asia and Pacific regions. Innocor was included in JDSU’s communications test and measurement segment.

Picolight, Inc. In May 2007, JDSU acquired Picolight, a designer and manufacturer of optical pluggable transceivers. Picolight was added to the JDSU optical communications segment.

Casabyte, Inc. In January 2007, JDSU acquired Casabyte, a provider of monitoring solutions for mobile network operations. Casabyte was included in the JDSU Communications Test and Measurement business.

2006 Acquisitions

Test-Um, Inc. In May 2006, JDSU purchased Test-Um, a provider of portable test, talk and trace products for datacom and communications networks. Test-Um is a manufacturer of low-cost instruments used in the field to troubleshoot, test, map and certify networks. Test-Um is included in the JDSU Communications test and measurement segment.

Agility Communications, Inc. In November 2005, JDSU completed the acquisition of Agility Communications, Inc., a provider of widely tunable laser solutions for optical networks. The acquisition established JDSU as an optical network provider. Agility was included in the JDSU optical communications segment.

2005 Acquisitions

Acterna, Inc. In August 2005, JDSU completed the acquisition of Acterna, Inc., a provider of broadband and optical test and measurement solutions for telecommunications, cable service providers, and network equipment manufacturers, including many of the largest 100 telecommunications, cable services providers, and system manufacturers worldwide. The combined companies’ products and services support the deployment of IP-based data, voice, and video services over optical long haul, metro, fiber-to-the-home, DSL, and cable networks. The addition of Acterna led to the creation of the JDSU Communications test and measurement business.

Photonic Power Systems, Inc. In May 2005, JDSU acquired Photonic Power Systems, a provider of photonic power for the delivery of power over fiber. Photonic power is a power delivery system whereby light from a laser source travels over fiber to its destination where it is then is changed to electricity using a photovoltaic power converter. The acquisition provided a solution to remote powering for many commercial applications, including medical, wireless communications, electrical power, industrial sensor, and aerospace applications.

Lightwave Electronics Corporation In April 2005, JDSU completed the acquisition of Lightwave Electronics Corporation, a provider of solid-state lasers for commercial markets such as materials processing, semiconductor fabrication, and biotechnology. With the acquisition of Lightwave, JDSU added solid-state lasers that range from low-to-high powers and ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths to its high power single emitter laser diodes, fiber lasers, argon ion, and helium neon lasers.

Other significant acquisitions E2O Communications, Inc. In May 2004, JDSU acquired E2O Communications, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of optical transceivers to support Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 1X-4X Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel, ESCON, ATM and SONET.

LA Label In January 2003, JDSU completed the acquisition of LA Label, a producer of pressure-sensitive labels, including custom labels, tags, and tickets to distributors and the printing trade. This acquisition allowed JDSU SecureShift pigment technology to be integrated into labels and packaging that protect brand-name consumer goods from counterfeiting.

OptronX—Optical Transceiver/Transponder Business In September 2002, JDSU acquired OptronX's business of microprocessor-based transceiver designs. The acquisition added uncooled 10 Gbit/s short reach (SR) and very short reach (VSR) transponders to the JDSU transmission module portfolio, which also includes other reaches for telecommunications, a XENPAK module for data communications for 10 Gbit/s data-rate applications, as well as modules for applications at other data rates.

Scion Photonics, Inc. In April 2002, JDSU acquired Scion Photonics, Inc., a provider of photonic solutions based on planar lightwave circuit manufacturing using 200 mm wafers, advanced packaging, and automated fiber interfacing capabilities. The addition of Scion’s experience in semiconductor manufacturing, specifically chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and optical materials technology, allowed JDSU to deliver silica-based waveguide devices.

IBM Optical Transceiver Business In January 2002, JDSU acquired the IBM Optical Transceiver business (formerly the IBM Transport Business Line), a provider of optical products supporting host-to-host and high-speed interconnects within a system. IBM's optical data communications products included small form factor (SFF) transceivers and Gigabit Interface Converters (GBIC) for storage area networks (SAN) and local area networks (LAN) using optical Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet protocols. The acquisition allowed JDSU to design and develop standards-compliant 1 through 10 gigabit data communications transceivers. The patented latch designs are especially useable for the hot pluggability needed to achieve maximum network up-time or higher manufacturing yields.

SDL, Inc. In February 2001, JDSU completed the acquisition of SDL, Inc. a maker of products that power the transmission of data, voice, and Internet information over fiber optic networks for telecommunications, data transmission, dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), and cable television applications. These products allowed customers to meet the bandwidth needs of increasing Internet, data, video, and voice traffic by expanding their fiber optic communications networks more quickly and efficiently than was possible using conventional electronic and optical technologies.

E-TEK Dynamics, Inc. In June 2000, JDSU acquired E-TEK Dynamics, Inc., a producer of wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs) designed to increase the bandwidth capacity of fiber optic networks. E-TEK also produced components such as isolators, couplers and integrated optics used in optical communications systems, terrestrial and submarine long-haul fiber optic networks, and short-haul networks, such as metro and cable.

Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. In February 2000, JDSU completed the acquisition of Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc., a manufacturer of optical thin film coatings and components used to control and enhance light propagation to achieve specific effects, such as reflection, refraction, absorption, and wavelength separation. This functionality is essential in the fiber optic telecommunications industry and other important markets. As the demand for bandwidth continues to the drive the need of system manufacturers to increase the number of wavelengths in their wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems, optical thin film coating technology is increasingly important.

Oprel Technologies Inc. In December 1999, JDSU acquired Oprel Technologies, whose product line included erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA) for fiber optic networks, as well as test equipment for optoelectronic devices. Oprel also developed packaging for devices, including DFB laser diodes, high-temperature and high-power laser diodes, and semiconductor optical amplifiers.

EPITAXX, Inc. In November 1999, JDSU acquired EPITAXX, Inc., whose products includes long wavelength detectors and receivers used for dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) and SONET/SDH transmission, optical network monitoring for terrestrial and undersea networks, test and measurement, and fiber optic analog CATV.

IOT GmbH In 1999, JDSU acquired IOT Integrated Optical Technology GmbH, a company located in Waghaeusel Germany. The company products are PLC waveguide splitter modules based on ion exchange in glass, and PLC DWDM modules leveraging silica on silicon substrates.

Litigation references

1. Dan Levine. "JDS Uniphase Scores a Win in Securities Case," Law.com, November 28, 2007

2. Kevin M. Lacroix. “Defense Verdict in JDSU Securities Trial,” The D&O Diary, November 27, 2007

3. Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, November 2007

References

1. ^ Chris O'Brien (October 21, 2007). "JDS collapse headed for court". San Jose Mercury News. 

External links

• JDSU
• JDSU JDS Uniphase Message Board Active community of JDSU investors and watchers.
• USA Today article about best and worst stocks of the George W. Bush presidency (JDSU last)

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