VIAVI Solutions

#2115

Rank

$9.44B

Marketcap

United States

Country

Leadership team

Mr. Oleg Khaykin (Pres, CEO & Director)

Mr. Hendrikus P. C. Derksen (Exec. VP & CFO)

Mr. Paul McNab (Exec. VP and Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer)

Products/ Services

Computer, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Mobile, Software, Telecommunications

Number of Employees

1,000 - 20,000

Headquarters

Milpitas, California, United States

Established

1923

Company Registration

SEC CIK number: 0000912093

Net Income

100M - 500M

Revenue

Above - 1B

Traded as

VIAV

Social Media

URL

https://www.viavisolutions.com

Overview

Location

Recognition and Award

References

Summary

Viavi Solutions Inc. provides network test, monitoring, and assurance solutions for communications service providers, enterprises, network equipment manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, government, and avionics customers in the Americas, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates through three segments: Network Enablement (NE), Service Enablement (SE), and Optical Security and Performance Products (OSP). The NE segment offers testing solutions that access the network to perform build-out and maintenance tasks. Its solutions include instruments, software, and services to design, build, activate, certify, troubleshoot, and optimize networks; and test and measurement instrumentation for communication and safety. It also offers support and professional services, such as repair, calibration, software support, and technical assistance for the products; and system integration projects, including project management, installation, and implementation, as well as product and technology training, and consulting services. The SE segment provides embedded systems and enterprise performance management solutions for communication service providers, enterprises, and cloud operators with visibility into network, service, and application data. Its solutions include instruments, microprobes, and software, which monitor, collect, and analyze network data to reveal the actual customer experience and to identify opportunities for new revenue streams and network optimization. The OSP segment offers optical products for anti-counterfeiting, consumer and industrial, government, automotive, and industrial markets. The company was formerly known as JDS Uniphase Corporation. Viavi Solutions Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.

History

As JDSU

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. Through mergers and acquisitions, the company eventually became known as JDS Uniphase, or simply JDSU. In August 2015, JDSU split into two new independent companies: Viavi Solutions and Lumentum Holdings, which was JDSU's former Communications and Commercial Optical products division.

Post-JDSU

In August 2015, after the JDSU split, former CEO Tom Waechter stepped down and Viavi Solutions appointed Richard Belluzzo as interim president and CEO.In September 2015, the company announced the release of GigaStor Software Edition, software designed to capture packet data from software-defined networking platforms, for purposes of performance and forensic analysis.In February 2016, Belluzzo became Chairman and Oleg Khaykin became president and CEO. The same month, the company announced that Frontier Communications had selected Viavi's Ethernet Assurance Solution for help with network performance management, troubleshooting and service level agreement management. Also in February 2016, Viavi Solutions added functionality to its CellAdvisor Base Station Analyzer to allow baseband testing during tower installation, in order to reduce the number of tower climbs and improve safety. The company also announced the GEOson network automation and management tool for 4G and 5G network testing, developed with technology from earlier acquisitions of networking companies Reverb Networks and Arieso.In March 2016, the company announced it had added a fully DOCSIS 3.1 -compliant signal meter to its OneExpert CATV Signal Analysis Meter, allowing service providers to test D3.1 signals in the field. Also in March 2016, the company announced MicroNIR near infrared spectrometer tools that allow quality control managers to inspect organic materials in the field.In July 2016, the company partnered with fellow networking vendor Brocade to use Brocade's Packet Broker and Session Director tools to capture and send subscriber traffic to Viavi’s xSIGHT Targeted Subscriber Search for analysis.

Vision

VIAVI Solutions is committed to transforming the way that networks are managed and maintained. We aspire to realize the ultimate ambition of virtualized networks everywhere, with end-to-end visibility and capacity to tackle any issue in minutes.

Key Team

Mr. Luke M. Scrivanich (Sr. VP and GM of Optical Security & Performance Products)

Mr. Gary W. Staley (Sr. VP, Global Sales, Network and Service Enablement)

Mr. Kevin Christopher Siebert (Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel & Sec.)

Ms. Petra Nagel (Sr. VP of HR)

Sagar Hebbar (Head of Investor Relations)

Mr. Ralph Rondinone (Sr. VP of Global Operations & Services, Network & Service Enablement)

Mr. Michael Seidl (Sr. VP of Bus. Management)

Recognition and Awards

VIAVI Solutions is proud to have been honored with numerous awards in recent years. These include a Leaders Quadrant ranking from Gartner in the 2019 Enterprise Network Testing Magic Quadrant, as well as several awards from Frost & Sullivan citing excellence in market leadership and innovation.