M&A Deal Summary

EXFO Acquires Astellia

On August 31, 2017, EXFO acquired technology hardware company Astellia

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is EXFO’s 2nd transaction in the Technology Hardware sector.
  • This is EXFO’s 1st transaction in France.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2017-08-31
Target Astellia
Sector Technology Hardware
Buyer(s) EXFO
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Aramis (Legal)

Target

Astellia

Cedex, France
Astellia is a provider of network and subscriber intelligence enabling mobile operators to drive service quality, maximize operational efficiency, reduce churn and develop revenues. Its vendor-independent, real-time monitoring and troubleshooting solution optimizes networks end-to-end, from radio to core. Astellia's unique blend of products and services provides automated optimization, actionable geolocated insights and big-data analytics to Network Operations, Service Operations Center, Customer Care and Marketing teams. Astellia has close partnerships with more than 120 telecom operators. Based in France, Astellia has significant operations in Spain and a strong presence in Canada, Lebanon, Morocco and South Africa.

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Buyer

EXFO

Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Category Company
Founded 1985
Sector Technology Hardware
Employees1,814
Revenue 267M USD (2020)
DESCRIPTION

EXFO is a provider of next-generation test, service assurance and end-to-end quality of experience solutions for mobile and fixed network operators and equipment manufacturers in the global telecommunications industry. EXFO’s intelligent solutions with contextually relevant analytics improve end-user quality of experience, enhance network performance and drive operational efficiencies throughout the network and service delivery lifecycle. Key technologies supported include 3G, 4G/LTE, VoLTE, IMS, video, Ethernet/IP, SNMP, OTN, FTTx, xDSL and various optical technologies accounting for more than 38% of the global portable fiber-optic test market. EXFO was founded in 1985 and is based in Quebec, Canada.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 12 of 14
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 2 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 11 of 13
Country: France M&A 1 of 2
Year: 2017 M&A 2 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-03-02 Ontology-Partners

London, United Kingdom

Ontology-Partners Ltd. (Ontology Systems) is a developer of graph-data and semantic searches to build real-time views of network services and related network elements.

Buy $8M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-09-07 Yenista Optics S.A.S.

Lannion, France

Yenista Optics S.A.S. is a provider of advanced optical test equipment for the R&D and manufacturing markets. Its product portfolio includes benchtop optical spectrum analyzers, tunable lasers, tunable filters and passive optical component test systems for network equipment manufacturers and optical component vendors. Yenista Optics S.A.S. was founded in 2003 and is based in Lannion, France.

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