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JDS Uniphase Courts Regulators to Win SDL

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Gaynell Terrell

JDS Uniphase Corp.'s $41 billion play for rival optical telecommunications supplier and sometimes technical superior SDL Inc. would give the merged company about two-thirds of the independent component market and 90 percent of the 980-nm pump laser market, analysts said. It would also significantly increase JDS Uniphase's product volume and reroute growth in the fiber optic components sector of competitor Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., which acknowledged that it had negotiated to buy SDL. SDL chief executive Donald Scifres said he had suggested the merger to longtime business...Read full article

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