Competitive Strengths:

 Market leadership in three key "last mile" markets—Enterprise, Broadband, Wireless

Technical innovation – We have a strong R&D tradition and more than 1,300 patents and patent applications worldwide. Through our 2004 purchase of Avaya’s Connectivity Solutions business, we acquired SYSTIMAX Labs and its Bell Labs tradition that traces back to Alexander Graham Bell. Most recently, we acquired Andrew Corporation,whose innovations in the wireless market are recognized worldwide. We believe product innovation is—and will remain—a CommScope trademark.

Operational excellence – CommScope is recognized for world-class operations and logistics.  

Global presence – We have manufacturing operations on five continents and sell into more than 130 countries.  

Customer focus – Service is a CommScope fundamental. We build our customer service model around adding value to every transaction.  

Brief History:

Based in Hickory, North Carolina since being founded in 1976, CommScope spun off from General Instrument in 1997 and became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CTV.

In January 2004, we acquired Avaya's Connectivity Solutions business and essentially doubled our size by adding approximately 1,900 people to our employee base, the business’ divisional headquarters/SYSTIMAX Labs in Richardson, Texas, and three manufacturing facilities located in Omaha, Nebraska, Bray, Ireland and Brisbane, Australia.

In December 2007, CommScope completed the acquisition of Andrew Corporation and formed Andrew Wireless Solutions by CommScope.  CommScope added nearly 11,000 employees for a total of 15,000 employees worldwide.  Andrew Wireless Solutions included a range of products found in the Last Mile of the network including antennas, cable and connectors, amplifiers, repeaters, transceivers as well as site monitoring software and field training.

Administrative Facilities:
Corporate Headquarters, Hickory, NC
Westchester, IL
Richardson, TX

Manufacturing and Distribution Facilities

NAR
College Park, Georgia
Norcross, Georgia
Joliet, Illinois
Omaha, NE
Catawba, NC
Claremont, NC
Newton, NC
Statesville, NC
Sparks, NV
McAllen, Texas
Richardson, TX 
Reynosa, Mexico

APAC
Campbellfield, Australia
Brisbane, Australia
Suzhou, China (Wireless)
Suzhou, China (Broadband/CATV)
Shenzhen, China
Goa, India

CALA
Jaguariuna, Brazil
Sorocaba, Brazil

EMEA
Seneffe, Belgium
Brno, Czech Republic
Bray, Ireland
Lochgelly, United Kingdom
Stratford, United Kingdom
Buchdorf, Germany

Sales for the 12 months ended 12/31/07
CommScope’s net sales for this period were approximately $1.93 billion.

	SYSTIMAX® Solutions is globally recognized as the world leader in enterprise cabling systems, providing networks with a global end-to-end copper and fiber structured cabling solution for connecting phones, workstations, Local Area Networks (LANs), and other critical communications devices through buildings or across campuses.
	Through our Uniprise Solutions® brand, our Enterprise/LAN Products Group is a domestic leader in end-to-end, high performance Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) and fiber optic solutions for enterprise/LAN networks.

Wireless Network Solutions
A leading global provider of integral components for wireless base stations; products that enhance and extend coverage and capacity of wireless networks; caller location services; and network planning and optimization products and services.