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To: H James Morris who wrote (114803)	1/8/2001 9:20:08 PM
From: Mark Fowler	Respond to of 164684

biz.yahoo.com JDS Uniphase Invests in Avantas Networks NEPEAN, Canada and SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- JDS Uniphase Corporation (Nasdaq: JDSU and Toronto: JDU) today announced the completion of a minority equity investment in Avantas Networks Corporation, a privately held telecommunications network testing equipment company based in Montreal, Quebec. The terms of the investment were not disclosed. No approvals under Canadian or U.S. antitrust or competition laws are required in connection with the investment. The Avantas Networks product family focuses on the testing and quality of service assurance of telecommunications networks. The explosive growth of the optical transport market has coincided with the convergence of various physical and software protocols in the telecommunications infrastructure, such as DWDM, Sonet/SDH, ATM and IP. Avantas' products address the needs of network operators and system providers that require ever more sophisticated network testing, surveillance and service assurance in this increasingly complex and fast-moving environment. Avantas currently has 55 employees and was formed in November 1998.<< ...and Fowler and co invests in Newp.