MRV Communications, Inc., together with its subsidiaries,
supplies communications solutions to telecommunications
service providers, enterprises, and governments worldwide.
The company operates in three segments: Network Equipment
Group, Network Integration Group, and Optical Components
Group. The Network Equipment Group designs, develops,
manufactures, and sells communications infrastructure
solutions that enable the access, transport, aggregation,
and management of various communications traffic for fixed-
line and mobile communications networks used by
telecommunications service providers, mobile communications
service providers, cable service providers, enterprises,
governments, aerospace, and defense. This segments products
include switches, routers, physical layer products and out-
of-band management products, specialized networking
products, and other applications comprising voice and
cellular communication. The Network Integration Group
segment provides network system architecture and integration
services, and procurement and distribution services for
products manufactured by third-party vendors, as well as for
products developed and manufactured by the Network Equipment
Group. The Optical Components Group segment designs,
manufactures, and sells optical components and subassemblies
for use in telecommunications systems and data
communications networks. This segment offers passive optical
networks, subsystems, and optical transceivers for
enterprise, access, and metropolitan applications, as well
as provides optical components, modules, and subsystems. MRV
Communications markets and sells its products through direct
sales force, manufacturers representatives, value-added-
resellers, distributors, and systems integrators. The
company was formerly known as MRV Technologies, Inc. and
changed its name to MRV Communications, Inc. in April 1992.
MRV Communications, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in
Chatsworth, California.