JDS Uniphase (JDSU) has reached an agreement to acquire Test-Um, provider of home networking test instruments for the FTTx and digital cable markets. The acquisition, which creates new sales channels for Test-Um's home networking product portfolio and JDSU's field test instruments for broadband access networks, is expected to close in the current quarter. Financial terms were undisclosed. Test-Um and its 30 staff add to JDSU's triple-play test expertise and product portfolio. JDSU will leverage Test-Um's network of several hundred distribution partners, making its access test instruments available to the service installation and electrical contractors served by Test-Um. JDSU is a provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for telecommunications service providers, cable operators, and network equipment manufacturers.
