What's the Story? Vantiva wants to revive CommScope's Home Networks unit

Senior Editor Jeff Baumgartner explains how Vantiva's acquisition of CommScope's troubled Home Networks unit could impact the companies' bottom lines.

Kelsey Ziser, Senior Editor

October 9, 2023

At a Glance

  • Why Vantiva wants to acquire CommScope's Home Networks unit (00:52)
  • CommScope gains a 25% stake in Vantiva (07:44)
  • Additional benefits CommScope could experience as a result of the acquisition (08:35)

Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner joins the podcast to discuss Vantiva's plan to acquire CommScope's Home Networks unit in exchange for a 25% stake in Vantiva. Eight years ago, Vantiva acquired Cisco's set-top and modem business. Jeff also explains how this new acquisition could impact Vantiva and CommScope's bottom lines.

For a lightly edited transcript, please click the caption button in the video toolbar.

Here are a few topics we covered:

  • Why Vantiva wants to acquire CommScope's Home Networks unit (00:52)

  • Vantiva's target markets (05:13)

  • CommScope gains a 25% stake in Vantiva (07:44)

  • Additional benefits CommScope could experience as a result of the acquisition (08:35)

About the Author(s)

Kelsey Ziser

Senior Editor, Light Reading

Kelsey is a senior editor at Light Reading, co-host of the Light Reading podcast, and host of the "What's the story?" podcast.

Her interest in the telecom world started with a PR position at Connect2 Communications, which led to a communications role at the FREEDM Systems Center, a smart grid research lab at N.C. State University. There, she orchestrated their webinar program across college campuses and covered research projects such as the center's smart solid-state transformer.

Kelsey enjoys reading four (or 12) books at once, watching movies about space travel, crafting and (hoarding) houseplants.

Kelsey is based in Raleigh, N.C.

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