Telecom, China Telecom, Comcast, Deutsche Telecom, France Telecom, Telefonica, Telmex, TimeWarner, Verizon and many others. JDSU test and measurement customers also include many of the network equipment manufacturers served by our communications and commercial optical products group, including Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, Huawei, Fujitsu, Nortel, and Motorola.
Trends As content providers in the communications industry are developing new business models to expand their distribution capabilities, they are increasingly adopting on-line channels for rich broadband content such as music, gaming, video programming, and movies. Telecommunications service providers are, in turn, planning to increase their revenues and profitability by expanding the capabilities of their IP packet-based networks to increase their network capacity and to deliver sophisticated levels of quality of service required to meet the service requirements of the content providers and the consumers.
Telecommunications, cable television, satellite, and wireless service providers are competing with each other to offer content providers and consumers the ability to carry virtually any type of content via bundled services. With more applications and content available, potential benefits for service providers include increased average revenue per user (“ARPU”) and less customer turnover due to better service quality, thus increasing profitability and long-term competitive advantage. As a result, many providers are developing consolidated network architectures intended to enable a triple-play (integrated voice, data and video services) offering from a single provider rather than three separate services from three separate providers over three separate networks.
Additionally, the proliferation of new and higher bandwidth services, including video-based content such as news, movies, and gaming, is generating strong growth in demand for network capacity and bandwidth rates, which in turn drives demand for many types of networking, access and transport systems.
Increasing deployments of broadband access, the expansion of IP-based services, and the need to reduce deployment time and cost should result in demand for communications test and measurement instruments, systems, software, and services. These communications test and measurement solutions support the rapid deployment of new services, increase customer satisfaction by helping technicians complete installation and repair work quickly and correctly, and lower operating expenses by automating and improving network installation, maintenance, and management processes. Our broad portfolio of test and measurement solutions positions us well to benefit from these developments.
Strategy The JDSU Communications Test and Measurement business segment plans to improve profitability by providing communications test and management solutions that address the business challenges of network operators and communications equipment manufacturers. Its focus is to enable network operators to accelerate deployment of new services, improve service quality, reduce customer churn, and lower network operating expenses. Form 10-K
Competition JDSU competes against various companies, including Agilent, Anritsu, Exfo, Spirent, Sunrise, and VeEX. While JDSU faces multiple competitors for each of its product families, it continues to have one of the broadest portfolios of wireline products and solutions available in the communications test and measurement industry.
Offerings JDSU provides the industry’s most expansive set of communications-focused test and measurement solutions. This portfolio provides end-to-end test support across communications networks, including the core,
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