What is the expected capital spending improvement from the largest customers in the next few years for the Network and Cloud business? 
 interfaces in all the aspects of the network, from our antennas, and cabling, and connectors to our small cell, remote radio heads, metro cell, and DAS solutions. Today we are supporting the US advanced wireless industry initiative, which is building for four city-scale 5G wireless research platforms with our products. These platforms will provide opportunities for fundamental research in areas such as millimeter wave, dynamic spectrum, and new 5G architectures.
In closing, I continue to believe that the new CommScope is better positioned than ever to help shape the future communications connectivity. Without question, our portfolio of industry-leading products coupled with our strong customer relationships and talented workforce give me great confidence in our long-term growth potential. I'm highly confident that the actions that we're taking in 2019 to reposition our organization will better enable CommScope to achieve accelerated financial returns as capital spending improves from our largest customers.
And with that, we'll open the floor up for questions, and I'll turn it back over to you, Charlie [Phonetic]
Questions and Answers:
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of George Notter with Jefferies. Your line is now open.
George Notter -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Hi, guys. Thanks very much. I guess maybe I wanted to start by talking about the Network and Cloud piece of the business. Obviously that's been a struggle for you guys. But can you talk about what you think the real kind of impairment in that businesses is in terms of its ability to drive free cash flow and profitability. Obviously a lot of trends you guys talked about some of them, DAA, you've got virtual CCAP out there, you've got a competitor selling their cable OS product in an all you can eat model, I mean, what do you think is really just structurally impaired versus the business that comes back and kind of rebound in terms of transitory issues.
Morgan C. S. Kurk -- Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Okay, thank you. Well, this is Morgan Kurk, I'll try to answer this from a structure from what the market looks like in general. So historically, this market for the past 20 years has been integrating all of its core functionality into a single product called CCAP or centralized CAP. This has now being disaggregated, and we have been a player in the aggregation of it, and we expect to be a player in the disaggregation of it. The disaggregation is as far as we're concerned, taking the code that we have had on our own equipment and migrating it so that it can run on traditional servers and run through traditional data network. While moving the parts that cannot run on those types of servers out toward the end of the network in something, as you may know, Remote Fi.
We believe that the fact that we have been writing this code for the past 20 years supporting it, featuring it, and are now porting it to these two ends, gives us a unique advantage in having something that is very hardened and something that is very featurish. We move out to the remote side of the world, where we have a significant position in all nodes deployed around the world. We have a strategy, both taking the hardware that we used to have centralized repackaging and putting it into these remote nodes along with our amplifier equipment and power supplies and packaging and giving operators a seamless upgrade path for today's DOCSIS.
In addition, we have the opportunity to enhance those remote nodes to support new features like Extended Spectrum and full duplex DOCSIS or even higher amounts of of capacity in future. All of this plan, which allows that migration is really what CommScope brings to the table. It has capital preservation for our end customers, it gives them an opportunity to expand and grow as they need, and we think that vast experience and the market position is something that will be critical as we move forward. We expect to play in both the head-end and in the remote-side, and we expect to win in both.
George Notter -- Jefferi
 interfaces in all the aspects of the network, from our antennas, and cabling, and connectors to our small cell, remote radio heads, metro cell, and DAS solutions. Today we are supporting the US advanced wireless industry initiative, which is building for four city-scale 5G wireless research platforms with our products. These platforms will provide opportunities for fundamental research in areas such as millimeter wave, dynamic spectrum, and new 5G architectures.
In closing, I continue to believe that the new CommScope is better positioned than ever to help shape the future communications connectivity. Without question, our portfolio of industry-leading products coupled with our strong customer relationships and talented workforce give me great confidence in our long-term growth potential. I'm highly confident that the actions that we're taking in 2019 to reposition our organization will better enable CommScope to achieve accelerated financial returns as capital spending improves from our largest customers.
And with that, we'll open the floor up for questions, and I'll turn it back over to you, Charlie [Phonetic]
Questions and Answers:
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of George Notter with Jefferies. Your line is now open.
George Notter -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Hi, guys. Thanks very much. I guess maybe I wanted to start by talking about the Network and Cloud piece of the business. Obviously that's been a struggle for you guys. But can you talk about what you think the real kind of impairment in that businesses is in terms of its ability to drive free cash flow and profitability. Obviously a lot of trends you guys talked about some of them, DAA, you've got virtual CCAP out there, you've got a competitor selling their cable OS product in an all you can eat model, I mean, what do you think is really just structurally impaired versus the business that comes back and kind of rebound in terms of transitory issues.
Morgan C. S. Kurk -- Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
 Okay, thank you. Well, this is Morgan Kurk, I'll try to answer this from a structure from what the market looks like in general. So historically, this market for the past 20 years has been integrating all of its core functionality into a single product called CCAP or centralized CAP. This has now being disaggregated, and we have been a player in the aggregation of it, and we expect to be a player in the disaggregation of it. The disaggregation is as far as we're concerned, taking the code that we have had on our own equipment and migrating it so that it can run on traditional servers and run through traditional data network. While moving the parts that cannot run on those types of servers out toward the end of the network in something, as you may know, Remote Fi.
We believe that the fact that we have been writing this code for the past 20 years supporting it, featuring it, and are now porting it to these two ends, gives us a unique advantage in having something that is very hardened and something that is very featurish. We move out to the remote side of the world, where we have a significant position in all nodes deployed around the world. We have a strategy, both taking the hardware that we used to have centralized repackaging and putting it into these remote nodes along with our amplifier equipment and power supplies and packaging and giving operators a seamless upgrade path for today's DOCSIS.
In addition, we have the opportunity to enhance those remote nodes to support new features like Extended Spectrum and full duplex DOCSIS or even higher amounts of of capacity in future. All of this plan, which allows that migration is really what CommScope brings to the table. It has capital preservation for our end customers, it gives them an opportunity to expand and grow as they need, and we think that vast experience and the market position is something that will be critical as we move forward. We expect to play in both the head-end and in the remote-side, and we expect to win in both.
George Notter -- Jefferi