{"id":17618,"date":"2024-03-05T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/?p=99448"},"modified":"2024-03-05T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:00:00","slug":"viavi-to-acquire-spirent-in-1-2b-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=17618","title":{"rendered":"Viavi to acquire Spirent in $1.2B deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viavi Solutions has agreed to acquire Spirent Communications in an all-cash deal valuing Spirent at around $1.2 billion. Under the terms of the acquisition, Spirent shareholders will receive 175 pence per share\u2014comprising 172.5 pence in cash and a 2.5 pence special dividend. This represents a premium of 61.4 percent over Spirent&#8217;s closing share price of<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/news\/2024\/mar\/05\/viavi-acquire-spirent-in-1-2b-deal\/\" title=\"ReadViavi to acquire Spirent in $1.2B deal\">&#8230; Read more &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/news\/2024\/mar\/05\/viavi-acquire-spirent-in-1-2b-deal\/\">Viavi to acquire Spirent in $1.2B deal<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/\">Telecoms Tech News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viavi Solutions has agreed to acquire Spirent Communications in an all-cash deal valuing Spirent at around $1.2 billion. Under the terms of the acquisition, Spirent shareholders will receive 175 pence per share\u2014comprising 172.5 pence in cash and a 2.5 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5049,4697,5750,5042,3333,5751,5044,5752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyber-security","category-cybersecurity","category-network-testing","category-networks","category-security","category-spirent","category-telecoms","category-viavi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17619,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17618\/revisions\/17619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}