PROFILE JDSU
90 years and counting
JDSU has a proud history – and a keen eye on the future. Tim Gillett meets Russell Taws and Brandon Collings
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ast year marked a major milestone for JDSU as the company celebrated 90 years of history. Back in
1923, Herr Wandel & Herr Goltermann founded a company in Germany specialising in developing and manufacturing test sets for communications. Over time, a series of acquisitions (Wandel & Goltermann, Wavetek Wandel Goltermann, Acterna, and others), became the foundation for what JDSU calls its network and service enablement business segment. A global company across all the
world’s major telecoms markets, JDSU has a significant investment in Europe. Te company employs more than 1,000 people including more than 200 R&D engineers at sites including St. Etienne in France, Stuttgart in Germany, and Edinburgh and Reading in the UK. Despite having its headquarters in Milpitas, California, product
Brandon Collings, left, and Russell Taws
marketing director Russell Taws explains that JDSU’s network and service enablement fibre optic and optical transport groups are based in Europe. ‘We have a number of very close partnerships with our European clients in the services and equipment sectors.’
Mixed market adaptability He said: ‘Our key markets are in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) – broadband, mobile access, FTTX, as well as high-speed backhaul – and the pace of technology change has never been faster than today, being driven by huge growth in the number of connected devices in the network and need for increased capacity at a low cost. For example, there has been a 30 per cent increase in the deployment of 100G networks over the last 12 months, and 400G is just round the corner.’ He continued: ‘Within EMEA
JDSU’s offices near Stuttgart, Germany
we observe market models and telecom infrastructures that are completely different. Some markets have networks that are shared across operators (see recent Vodafone/Telefonica announcements for FTTH in
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Spain). Many operators have converged fibre-based wireless and wireline networks with the switch to 3G/4G LTE. We have to adapt our offering to make it more relevant to all of these different needs.’ ‘Each region has its own mix of
technologies and different levels of maturity and JDSU has adapted well to these “hybrid” networks. Te broadband market uses both copper and fibre in FTTC/FTTH type technologies. Te mobile market uses both RF and fibre in the front-haul with FTTA (fiber to the antenna) and DAS (distributed antenna systems) technologies. Data centres are moving fast to 40/100G and new MTP/MPO ribbon fibre connectors. Tis is pushing fibre deeper down the network. We estimate that more than 14 million optical connectors are manufactured every month to fulfil the worldwide demand.’
Collaborative development Brandon Collings, the CTO of JDSU’s communications and commercial optical products (CCOP) business segment, explained that his side of the
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