CommScope history

1977 CommScope is merged with Valtec.

In 1979 Valtech donated fiber optics line and equipment to link the United States House of Representatives to the C-SPAN studios, enabling live broadcasting of United States Congressional proceedings for the first time.

In 1983 CommScope established its Network Cable division to become involved in making cable for computer networks and other specialized wire markets.

CommScope swapped corporate parents in 1986 when the Cable Home Group was sold to General Instrument Corporation.

Two years later, in 1988, Drendel bought back a significant interest in CommScope once again, leading another group of investors, but its independence would last just two years.

In 1990, General Instrument, which itself was being bought by New York's Forstmann, Little & Co., reacquired CommScope.

1997 General Instrument spins off CommScope as an independent, public company.

Sales surged to $749 million, and operating income increased from $72.8 million in 1998 to $117.5 million, as gains were made by all three of CommScope's principal product categories: CATV/Video, wireless and other telecom, and local area networks (LANs).

Then, in 1999, the company launched a five-year, $135 million expansion in the Hickory area to beef up its fiber optic and wireless manufacturing and research and development capabilities.

The year 2000 started out well and resulted in CommScope realizing record results by year's end.

But amid these positive developments uncertainty was brewing in the telecommunications industry, which would suffer through a very difficult 2001.

Beck, Kirsten, and Will Workman, "Man in the Middle: Frank Drendel Supplies the Cable in Cable Television and the Cement in the Information Highway," CED, November 2002.

CommScope finished 2004 with sales of $1.15 billion and net income of nearly $75.8 million.

In 2007, CommScope acquired the global wireless infrastructure provider Andrew Corporation, which would help CommScope meet demand from mobile phone companies.

In 2011, The Carlyle Group acquired CommScope.

On October 25, 2013, CommScope had its initial public offering on the NASDAQ, being listed as COMM.

In February 2016, it was announced that the Daytona International Speedway had a new wiring infrastructure from CommScope.

On April 4, 2019, CommScope completed the acquisition of Arris International, a telecommunications equipment manufacturing company and owner of Ruckus Networks.

On October 1, 2020, CommScope announced that Charles Treadway would succeed Eddie Edwards as the company's new president and CEO. The company also announced that Bud Watts would replace Frank Drendel as chairman, with Drendel being named chairman emeritus.