M&A Deal Summary

ARRIS International Acquires GoBackTV

On May 2, 2011, ARRIS International acquired technology hardware company GoBackTV

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is ARRIS International’s 3rd transaction in the Technology Hardware sector.
  • This is ARRIS International’s 4th transaction in the United States.
  • This is ARRIS International’s 2nd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-05-02
Target GoBackTV
Sector Technology Hardware
Buyer(s) ARRIS International
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

GoBackTV

Menlo Park, California, United States
GoBackTV, Inc. develops and markets optical transmission equipments for television service operators.

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Buyer

ARRIS International

Suwanee, Georgia, United States

Category Company
Founded 1969
Sector Technology Hardware
Employees8,700
Revenue 6.6B USD (2017)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to ARRIS' corporate headquarters in Suwanee, Georgia.
Entrance to ARRIS' corporate headquarters in Suwanee, Georgia.

ARRIS is a global communications technology company. ARRIS is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of telephony, data, video, construction, rebuild and maintenance equipment for the broadband communications industry. In addition, the Company supplies infrastructure products used by cable system operators to buildout and maintain hybrid fiber-coaxial networks. ARRIS was formed in 1969 and is based in Suwanee, Georgia.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 11
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 3 of 8
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 4 of 8
State: California M&A 2 of 5
Country: United States M&A 4 of 8
Year: 2011 M&A 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-09-22 Digeo

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Digeo, Inc. provides media center software and services that inspire consumer loyalty, generate new incremental revenue, and position cable as the source for home entertainment. The Moxi™ platform from Digeo powers a new generation of media centers through which cable operators can deliver high-revenue services and applications such as digital video recording (DVR), high-definition TV, and on-demand and pay-per-view content—to the whole home at a competitive cost per TV.

Buy $20M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-08-29 Enablence Technologies - Trident7

Ontario, Canada

Enablence Technologies - Trident7 is a universal access platform for delivery of Fibre to the premises services through optical networks. The Trident7 chassis provides aggregation and management functions including DPoE (Docsis Provisioning of EPON) of both node- and chassis-based PON deployments.

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