Amphenol’s recent CommScope acquisition will see the vendor take on its new subsidiary’s name, it has been revealed.

The firm recently acquired CommScope’s connectivity and cable solutions (CCS) segment for $10.5 billion. As reported by Light Reading, Amphenol gained the right to use the CommScope name as part of the mega deal.

The information came to light in a proxy filing submitted last month, with Amphenol claiming the right to use the CommScope name while providing transitional trademark licenses back to CommScope, allowing the latter to use the name outside of the CCS Business for a limited time only.

Upon the closure of the deal, CommScope plans to change its name and ticker symbol, with a new branding yet to be decided.

The CCS acquisition followed the sale of CommScope’s mobile networks business to Amphenol for $2.1 billion in mid-2024. CommScope CEO Chuck Treadway said the deal let the firm focus on its access network solutions (ANS) alongside its Ruckus enterprise networking division, which come under the RemainCo name.

With CommScope still working out its rebrand, it remains to be seen whether it will become known as RemainCo in future.

Amphenol and CommScope's history, and future

The CCS deal is Amphenol's largest to date and builds on last year’s integration of CommScope’s outdoor wireless networks (OWN) and distributed antenna systems (DAS) segments into Amphenol’s Andrew business.

With the two CommScope segments under its belt, the Connecticut-headquartered firm aims to supply telecom operators, hyperscalers, and enterprises with antennas and DAS gear, alongside the cables and fiber that connect them.

Mirroring acquisitions in networking infrastructure such as the recent Juniper Networks sale to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the sale effectively primes Amphenol to meet the optics-heavy demands of AI-centric networking.

Dell’Oro Group research has predicted that data center switch sales in AI back-end networks are expected to surpass $100 billion over five years, driving parallel investments in optical transport networks.