San Jose, California – October 1, 2003 – JDS Uniphase (Nasdaq: JDSU and TSX: JDU) today announced that it has been selected by Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to receive a 2003 Supplier Performance Award.
“Sun’s Supplier Performance Awards recognize industry leading suppliers for significant contributions to Sun products and services that meet and exceed customer expectations for value, performance, quality, leadtime and advanced technology,” said Eugene McCabe, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations from Sun Microsystems. “We congratulate JDS Uniphase for attaining our high performance standards leading to these awards.”
As both network traffic and our dependence on information continue to grow, network solution providers are turning to optical communications for greater bandwidth and faster access to large stores of data. JDS Uniphase, a leader in optical technology, provides Sun with optical data communication modules for use in high speed, information-intensive applications. These modules are installed in Storage Area Network (SAN) switches and servers with data transfer rates up to 2 Gb/s.
“Our optical data communications business has been serving Sun for nearly a decade, developing and supplying optical transmission solutions for their data storage business,” said Mark S. Sobey, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at JDS Uniphase. “It is extremely gratifying, to all our employees who have worked to support Sun over the years, to receive the recognition that such a prestigious award represents."
About JDS Uniphase
JDS Uniphase Corporation, a worldwide leader in optical technology, designs and manufactures products for fiberoptic communications, as well as for markets where its core optics technologies provide innovative solutions for industrial, commercial and consumer applications. The Company’s fiberoptic components and modules are deployed by system manufacturers for the data communications, telecommunications and cable television industries. The Company also offers products for display, security, medical/environmental instrumentation, decorative, aerospace and defense applications. More information is available at http://www.jdsu.com/.
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