Ericsson announced on Friday that it has acquired Cradlepoint in a deal that values the enterprise at $1.1 billion. The Swedish carrier equipment manufacturer said Cradlepoint had SEK1.2 billion in sales for 2019, which is approximately $137 million, with a margin of 61%. After dragging Ericsson’s margins down by 1% in 2021 and 2022, it is expected the deal will start to make a contribution to operating cash-flow in 2022. Cradlepoint and its over 650 staff will be a standalone subsidiary of Ericsson, and remain headquartered in Boise, Idaho with offices in Silicon Valley, the UK, and Australia. It will be part of Ericsson’s business area technologies and new businesses segment. The company describes itself as providing “cloud-delivered wireless edge solutions for branch, mobile, and IoT networks”. Cradlepoint has over 20,000 customers, 1,500 channel partners, and over 1 million SaaS subscriptions. “Ericsson is uniquely positioned to build on Cradlepoint’s leadership position in wireless edge and the wireless WAN market,” CEO Börje Ekholm said. “Combining the scale of our market access and established relationships with the world’s biggest mobile operators we are making a strong investment to support our customers to grow in this exciting market.” In a call, Ekholm said… Read full this story
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