Adtran adds Adva in €789 million fibre merger

Adtran and Adva have announced a merger deal designed to help them tap into the growth opportunity in fibre.
The vendors aim to bring together their various fibre market assets – Adtran’s fibre access and connectivity solutions and Adva’s strength in metro wavelength division multiplexing, data centre interconnect, business Ethernet and network synchronisation solutions, essentially – to build some scale in the fibre networking space.
The deal, which gives Adva an equity