Description of Business

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Description of Business

Description of Business

Zebra Technologies Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries (“Zebra” or the “Company”) designs, manufactures, sells, and supports a broad range of direct thermal and thermal transfer label printers, radio frequency identification printer/encoders, dye sublimation card printers, real-time locating solutions, related accessories, and support software. These products are used principally in automatic identification (auto ID), data collection and personal identification applications and are distributed world-wide through a network of resellers, distributors and end-users representing a wide cross-section of industrial, service, and government organizations.

In October 2014, Zebra acquired the Enterprise business (“Enterprise”) from Motorola Solutions, Inc. (“MSI”), for $3.45 billion in cash (the “Acquisition”). Enterprise is an industry leader in mobile computing and advanced data capture technologies and services, which complement Zebra’s printing and radio frequency identification device (“RFID”) products. Enterprise products include rugged and enterprise-grade mobile computers; laser, imaging and radio frequency identification based data capture products; wireless LAN (“WLAN”) solutions and software; and applications that are associated with these products and services. Enterprise service revenues include revenues arising from maintenance, integration services and device and network management. During the third quarter of 2016, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Extreme Networks, Inc. to dispose of its wireless LAN (“WLAN”) business (“divestiture group”), see Note 3 Business Combinations and Divestitures.