Keysight Technologies Inc Aktie News

Spirent Communications shares surged 10% on Thursday after the British company backed a takeover offer put forward by Keysight Technologies that saw the California company outbid its rival Viavi Solutions to take over the struggling telecoms testing firm.

Spirent Communications (LSE:SPT) plc has accepted a takeover bid from US electronics group Keysight at 201.5p per share, representing a roughly 14% premium to Wednesday's closing price. The bid beats out a previous offer from Viavi by a 26.5p per share.

U.S.-based Keysight Technologies will buy Spirent Communications in an all-cash deal, valuing the British telecommunications testing firm at 1.16 billion pounds ($1.46 billion), both companies said in a joint statement on Thursday.

Keysight Technologies is preparing to launch a formal offer for British telecommunications testing firm Spirent Communications worth roughly 200 pence a piece, Sky News reported on Wednesday.

SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $KEYS #800ZR--Keysight Technologies (NYSE: KEYS): What: The use of AI is growing rapidly and the race to develop and deploy high-speed, high-bandwidth optical interconnects is a top priority for data center and cloud service providers. At OFC 2024, Keysight will demonstrate its market-leading design, simulation, and test solutions that accelerate the adop...

SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $KEYS #5G--Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) and Capgemini have successfully validated non-terrestrial network (NTN) test scenarios in a set-up using Capgemini's 5G New Radio (NR) central unit (CU) and distributed unit (DU) framework supporting NTN functionality. The validation was made possible with Keysight's UeSIM UE Emulation RAN and Propsim Ch...

SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $KEYS #6G--Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is collaborating on the new NVIDIA 6G Research Cloud Platform, which includes the NVIDIA Aerial Omniverse Digital Twin, an open, flexible, and interconnected framework of network emulation resources offering researchers a comprehensive tool suite on which to develop new adaptations of artificial intellig...

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