@ CTIA: Executive interview with CommScope CEO

ORLANDO, Fla.—As CEO and president of CommScope Inc., Eddie Edwards is pulling together the company’s wireless, cable and enterprise operations into one CommScope brand, in a move to unify the company’s branding efforts.
As part of that effort, Edwards is organizing the company’s enterprise sales staff to focus across segments, cross-selling its equipment across its various segments. In the enterprise, for example, more building owners and managers find that wireless connectivity are a necessity inside their buildings, whether they are office campuses or sports arenas. As such, Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) networks and accompanying picocells and femtocells are becoming important aspects of a heterogeneous network. “All we do is enable bandwidth,” Edwards noted in an interview with RCR Wireless News.
Edwards, who first joined CommScope in 2001, was named CEO in January when The Carlyle Group closed on plans to take the company private. Carlyle had been in conversations with CommScope for years, and the timing was right, Edwards said, adding that Carlyle had seen CommScope perform in difficult a variety of economies. Today the company does business in about 130 countries, with just over half of its business coming from North America. Edwards said the company also has strong plays in Asia-Pacific and Latin America, as well as other regions.