Airspan Networks Holdings has come to the rescue of Cambium Networks, the financially troubled wi-fi tech supplier that lately laid off greater than half of its staff.
Airspan at present introduced it has acquired the majority of Cambium’s fastened wi-fi product traces that serve a mixture of wi-fi broadband service suppliers and protection and demanding communications clients. Consequently, greater than 135 Cambium staff are becoming a member of Airspan.
‘Materials income driver’ for Airspan
Monetary phrases of the transaction weren’t disclosed. Nonetheless, Airspan expects the settlement to allow it to broaden its world enterprise and enter into new segments, together with offering wi-fi applied sciences and programs to the protection trade.
“We’re persevering with to develop, and I might count on that the Cambium acquisition goes to be a cloth income driver on that now-combined firm going ahead,” Airspan CEO Glenn Laxdal instructed Mild Studying.
Laxdal mentioned Fortress Funding Group-backed Airspan will shed extra gentle on the monetary upside that is anticipated from the transaction. Within the first half of 2026, Airspan posted revenues of $70 million, up 112% year-over-year. On the finish of Q2 2026, Airspan posted revenues of greater than $152 million and $25 million in earnings over the prior 12-month interval.
Cambium was mired in monetary hassle
The transaction comes collectively greater than per week after Cambium disclosed that its money had run dry, had began the chapter restructuring course of and had laid off 260 staff, or 53.6% of its complete workforce – all with out severance funds. On the time, Cambium additionally famous that its directors had been trying to promote the corporate’s belongings.
These disclosures arrived almost three months after Cambium introduced its inventory was delisted on the Nasdaq following a number of delinquency notices. Its efforts to attraction the choice failed as shares shifted to buying and selling on the OTC market. In a Could 2026 10-Ok submitting with the US Securities and Change Fee, Cambium warned that “[t]right here is substantial doubt about our means to proceed as a going concern.”
Laxdal mentioned talks with Cambium preceded the corporate’s most up-to-date submitting by a number of months. “We have had a protracted engagement with Cambium,” he defined.
What Airspan is getting
Airspan is buying an array of Cambium merchandise, together with the PMP 450 point-to-point entry platform, PTP 670 unlicensed point-to-point backhaul platform, PTP 700 point-to-point programs tailor-made for protection functions, and the cnWave millimeter wave point-to-point and point-to-multipoint connectivity platform. Airspan can also be taking on administration system and planning software program merchandise such because the LINKPlanner (community design), cnHeat (wi-fi modeling) and cnMaestro (wi-fi community administration).
Laxdal famous that Cambium will present a larger concentrate on transport and complement Airspan’s concentrate on the entry.
“From our perspective, that is very a lot hand and glove. They have what we do not have; we’ve got what they do not have,” he mentioned, noting that the businesses each have staff within the US, UK and India. “We now have a transport connection into our 5G wi-fi non-public networks and 5G public networks.”
Bullish on important infrastructure and protection trade help
From the shopper aspect, there’s little overlap between the 2 corporations, Laxdal mentioned. Cambium, he notes, brings in an array of broadband service supplier clients, complementing Airspan’s work with main cellular community operators corresponding to AT&T, Rakuten, Reliance Jio and Verizon.
Laxdal mentioned the transfer may even broaden Airspan’s concentrate on services for important infrastructure whereas offering a longtime path into the protection expertise area. Of these two, Airspan sees protection as the doubtless largest progress alternative to pursue by way of the Cambium settlement.
“We’re onboarding a really massive, substantial protection trade presence with this acquisition,” he mentioned. “We have talked about it [the defense sector] and represented our intention to get into that area. However it’s not for the faint of coronary heart. It takes a very long time to interrupt into the protection area. Now we’ve got the chance with a big income stream coming into us from protection that permits us to start out investing in a [defense] portfolio.”
Laxdal expects it’ll take about six months to finish the total integration, together with the mixing of buyer bases, help organizations and provide chains – roughly the identical period of time it took for Airspan to combine its Q1 2025 acquisition of Corning’s wi-fi enterprise. Airspan has set a 30/60/90 day plan for the preliminary phases of the Cambium integration, he mentioned.
