Test and Measurement: DoJ orders Keysight to shed Spirent’s channel emulation

U.S. Department of Justice ordered Keysight to do more divestment and include channel emulation in the assets going to Viavi Solutions

In a new development in Keysight Technologies’ pending acquisition of Spirent Communications, Viavi Solutions is getting a bit more of Spirent than originally thought.

Viavi is now going to get Spirent Communications’ channel emulation capabilities , along with Spirent’s high-speed Ethernet and network security assets, as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s requirements on Keysight’s Spirent buy.

Keysight beat out Viavi in a bidding war for Spirent Communications in a nearly $1.5 billion deal. That pending transaction already involved required divestments of Spirent’s high-speed Ethernet and network security testing assets—which Viavi had agreed