“The transaction with CommAgility is directly aligned with our strategy to add transformational growth opportunities to the company and enhance our scale,” said Tim Whelan, Wireless Telecom’s CEO. “CommAgility also brings world-class engineering talent focused on LTE wireless communications that will allow us to accelerate our innovation to networking trends driven by 5G deployment and IoT development.”
CommAgility provides proprietary solutions that enable the LTE standard to be customised for small cell and private network applications in a variety of markets, including airborne, satellite communications, backhaul and research. Additionally, CommAgility supplies cellular network validation test systems.
“We are excited and believe that Wireless Telecom is the ideal partner to accelerate our growth initiatives to build upon our 10 year history,” said Edward Young, pictured, managing director and co-founder of CommAgility. “We share many of the same values, including our dedication to innovation and commitment to customer excellence.”
According to the companies, although they are complementary, their common core competencies include designing custom and semi-custom RF solutions for overlapping end markets.