INTEGRATING ACQUISITIONS
 

Turn acquisitions into revenue without replatforming them.

You inherited their hardware, their processes, and their data. You should not have to standardise all three before the deal starts paying for itself. 

The deal closed. The integration didn't.

Every acquisition brings its own hardware, its own processes, and data nobody has normalized yet. The clock on the synergies you underwrote starts ticking before any of that is sorted out.

The Problem

Every acquisition arrives with a different OLT vendor, a different CPE fleet, a different billing model, and data nobody has normalized. The usual options are both bad: run parallel stacks and pay for two operations, or run a replatform project and put revenue synergies eighteen months out. Here's what that actually looks like when the deal closes.

The Answer

AEX is multi-vendor at its foundations. Ten OEM ecosystems, including Nokia, Calix, ZTE, Zhone, Huawei, Ubiquiti, and eero, plus any TR-069-compatible device through the AEX ACS. An acquired network onboards onto consistent workflows without standardizing hardware first. This is per-vendor activation knowledge accumulated over more than a decade of operating networks, not a connector catalog.

What that means in practice

01

Provision across mixed hardware in real time, layer 2 and layer 3, with automatic rollback 

02

Bring acquired subscribers onto one billing engine covering recurring, prepaid, postpaid and wholesale 

03

Run one set of workflows across both estates without forcing either onto the other's processes

04

Keep procurement leverage: you are never locked to one OEM by your OSS

The Onboarding Question

Moving an acquisition's non-normalized data is the highest hidden cost in any deal of this kind, and it is where AEX is investing: data transformation and onboarding orchestration that compresses migration from a project into a process.

Commercial

Per-active-subscriber pricing means the cost of an acquired base tracks the base itself, so integration does not carry a fixed platform penalty before the synergies land.

Onboard the base. Don't standardize it first.

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