In August 2015, JDSU split into two different companies – Viavi Solutions and Lumentum Holdings.

[3] Uniphase was started in 1979 in a San Jose, California garage, and made lasers for chip makers and scanners.

[4] In 1981, JDS Optics was founded in Ottawa, Ontario by Philip Garel-Jones, Gary Duck, Jozef Straus, and Bill Sinclair.

[10] In 2003, CEO Straus retired, and the company moved its headquarters to San Jose, California, to consolidate its business.

After a downturn in the telecom industry as part of the dot com bubble, JDS Uniphase announced in late July 2001 the largest (up to then) write-down of goodwill.