Belden Inc (BDC) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to this morning's Belden's Reports First Quarter twenty twenty six Results. Just a reminder, this call is being recorded. At this time, you are in a listen only mode. Later, we will conduct a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your touchtone phone. If you are in the question queue and would like to withdraw your question, simply press 2. I would now like to turn the call over to Aaron Reddington. Please go ahead, sir. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for Belden's first quarter twenty twenty six earnings conference call. With me today are Belden's President and CEO, Ashish Chand and Executive Vice President and CFO, Jeremy Parks. Ashish will provide an overview of our first quarter results before turning to a discussion on today's announcement that Belden has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ruckus Networks from Vistans Networks. Jeremy will discuss the financing aspects of the transaction and our immediate delevering plans. We issued press releases related to our earnings and this transaction announcement earlier this morning and have prepared slide decks for both announcements. These materials and a transcript of our prepared remarks are currently available online at investor.belden.com. Please note that the presentation used during today's call is the transaction announcement presentation. The regular earnings presentation is loaded to our website for your reference. Turning to slide two. I'd like to remind everyone that today's call will include forward looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties as detailed in our press releases and most recent Form 10 ks. We will also reference certain non GAAP fi...