Keysight Technologies’ has completed the acquisition of Spirent Communications for $1.46 Billion. It represents a decisive shift in the telecom assurance landscape. The deal combines Keysight’s hardware and RF testing strengths with Spirent’s software-driven lifecycle assurance, automation, and digital-twin capabilities, creating the industry’s most complete “lab-to-live” validation platform.

As telecom and cloud networks transition to cloud-native, multi-vendor, and AI-driven architectures, Keysight gains critical capabilities to validate and assure dynamic, service-based networks end to end.

Appledore provides our takeaways and analysis in this 5-page report.