[2] Viavi Solutions' history dates back to 1979 when Uniphase was started in a San Jose, California garage, as a manufacturer of lasers for chip makers and scanners.

[11] Also in March 2016, the company announced MicroNIR near infrared spectrometer tools that allow quality control managers to inspect organic materials in the field.

[16] The company produces compact optical network field testers under the brand name T-BERD in the US, and MTS in Europe.

[citation needed] The wireless NE group includes CellAdvisor, a portable tester for testing radio frequency (RF) signals over fiber.

[19] The group also produces the Xgig 1000, a lab-based tester for iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols used with Storage Area Networks.

[21] xSIGHT is a customer service tool for mobile operators, for scaling and monitoring wireless technologies such as 4G.

[26] The group also supports anti-counterfeiting efforts by producing hard to copy labels for pharmaceutical and consumer-electronics products.

[16] The group also manufactures MicroNIR Spectrometers that are used in the field for real-time, non-destructive chemical and physical analysis of materials and monitoring of processes.

[16] The company makes optical coatings for space programs, such as the filter assembly NASA used in the OVIRS instrument for the OSIRIS-REx Mission which was sent to study a near-Earth asteroid, Bennu.