Mergers and Acquisitions

JDSU merger and acquisition activities are summarized below.

Finisar Network Tools Business
July 16, 2009—Finisar Network Tools is the world’s leading provider of storage area network (SAN) protocol test tools, software and services. The Network Tools portfolio focuses on the SAN analysis and data generation and load testing segments, specializing in a wide range of storage protocols, such as Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, 10GigE, iSCSI, SAS and SATA. With this acquisition, JDSU expands its lab test market and creates new growth opportunities from the combined test expertise of JDSU and the Network Tools business. The transaction establishes JDSU as the leading provider of storage network test solutions and creates new opportunities to deliver innovation and enhanced services to our lab and manufacturing customers.

Circadiant Systems, Inc.
November 18, 2008—Circadiant is the industry’s recognized leader in SFP+, 10 GigE and other stressed signal test solutions. With this acquisition, JDSU expands it’s product portfolio for the lab and production test market by capitalizing on a number of key assets, including Circadiant’s successful Hydra and OST product platforms, established test expertise and close customer relationships with leading network equipment manufacturers, optical module vendors and semiconductor companies. JDSU’s extensive optical transport product development capabilities and global distribution channels will now be available to extend the technology leadership established by Circadiant and broaden the availability of its industry-leading SFP+, 10GigE and other stressed signal test solutions.

American Bank Note Holographics, Inc.
February 13, 2008—ABNH is a market leader in the production and marketing of holograms for security applications and the leading supplier of optical security devices for the transaction card market. With this acquisition, JDSU builds upon its leadership position in security solutions for brand protection and expands it's offering to include security solutions for transaction card-based commerce. It also fortifies JDSU's leadership position as a fully integrated overt and covert security solutions provider for product authentication and brand protection.

Picolight, Inc.
May 29, 2007—Picolight is a leading designer and manufacturer of optical pluggable transceivers. With the addition of Picolight's high-growth pluggable optics technology, JDSU strengthens its ability to address the fast-growing market for optical interconnect applications in the datacenter, enterprise, storage area and metro networking markets. The addition of Picolight's 850 nanometer (nm) and 1310 nm VCSEL-based transceiver products to JDSU's current data communications product portfolio brings innovative technology with the performance, reliability and manufacturability needed to address a wide range of markets.

Innocor
May 10, 2007—Innocor is a leading provider of broadband test solutions for network equipment manufacturers.  With this acquisition, JDSU expands its product portfolio for the lab and production test market by capitalizing on a number of key assets, including Innocor's successful TestPoint product family, Innocor's established verification and production test expertise and innovation; the close customer relationships Innocor has with leading network equipment manufacturers worldwide; JDSU's strong product development capabilities; and JDSU's global direct sales organization and other distribution channels.

Casabyte Inc.
January 23, 2007—Casabyte is a leading provider of service quality monitoring solutions for mobile network operators. Casabyte addresses the rapidly growing need for quality of service (QoS) test solutions as network operators deliver bandwidth-intensive multimedia content over converged fixed-mobile networks. With this acquisition, JDSU builds on the leadership position it has gained in the service assurance market for fixed telecommunications and cable networks and services.

Test-Um Inc.
May 4, 2006—Test-Um Inc. is an industry-leading provider of home networking test instruments for the FTTx and digital cable markets. With this acquisition, JDSU creates new sales channels for Test-Um's home networking product portfolio and JDSU's existing set of field test instruments for broadband access networks. The rapid adoption of IP-based voice, data and video services makes it a strategic imperative that telecommunications and cable network operators deploy broadband triple-play test solutions that extend from the core network into the home.  Test-Um and its 30 employees add to JDSU's triple-play test expertise and product portfolio, bringing an extensive set of home-wiring test instruments for the verification, installation and maintenance of Category 3, Category 5 and coaxial cables used in home and small office networks for the delivery of VoIP, IPTV and other services.

Agility Communications, Inc.
November 30, 2005—Agility Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of widely tunable laser solutions for the optical network. With this acquisition, JDSU continues its commitment to investing in innovative technologies in potentially high growth markets.  Adding Agility's tunable laser solutions further expands JDSU's portfolio for the agile network. Tunable lasers simplify the deployment of high-speed, metro, and long-haul networks and enable next-generation services. JDSU's agile network portfolio includes products such as EDFAs, ROADMs, wavelength blockers, and optical channel monitors.

Acterna, Inc.
August 3, 2005—Acterna is a leader in broadband and optical test & management (T&M) solutions for service providers and network equipment vendors worldwide. With this acquisition, JDSU becomes the leading provider of optical communications sub-systems and broadband T&M systems. Its combined portfolio of products and services will enhance the deployment of Internet Protocol (IP)-based data, voice and video services over optical long haul, metro, fiber-to-the-home, DSL and cable networks. With sales and distribution in more than 160 countries, JDSU will serve an expanded customer base that includes the largest 100 telecommunications and cable services providers, and system manufacturers worldwide.

Photonic Power Systems, Inc.
May 26, 2005—Photonic Power Systems is a pioneering provider of photonic power for the delivery of power over fiber. Photonic power is an inventive power delivery system whereby light from a laser source travels over fiber to its destination where it is then is changed to electricity usinga highly efficientphotovoltaic power converter. The acquisition represents an innovative system solution to remote powering for many commercial applications including medical, wireless communications, electrical power, industrial sensor, and aerospace applications.

Lightwave Electronics Corporation
April 29, 2005—Lightwave Electronics Corporation is a leading provider of solid-state lasers for commercial markets including materials processing, semiconductor fabrication, and biotech. By acquiring Lightwave, JDSU expands its product line and broadens its customer base in growing laser markets. Now, in addition to high power single emitter laser diodes, fiber lasers, argon ion, and helium neon lasers, JDSU provides an expanded range of solid-state lasers that include low to high powers and ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths.