<PAGE>   1
 As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 26, 2000.
                                                      Registration No. 333-_____
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                                ANTEC CORPORATION
               (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)

            DELAWARE                                            36-3892082
 (State or other jurisdiction of                             (I.R.S. Employer
 incorporation or organization)                             Identification No.)

                             11450 TECHNOLOGY CIRCLE
                                DULUTH, GA 30097
                                 (678) 473-2000
                   (Address, including zip code, and telephone
                     number of principal executive offices)

                     ANTEC CORPORATION EMPLOYEE SAVINGS PLAN
                            (Full title of the plan)

                              LAWRENCE A. MARGOLIS
                             11450 TECHNOLOGY CIRCLE
                              DULUTH, GEORGIA 30097
                                 (678) 473-2000
 (Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

        The Commission is requested to mail signed copies of all orders,
                         notices and communications to:

                           W. BRINKLEY DICKERSON, JR.
                              TROUTMAN SANDERS LLP
                     600 PEACHTREE STREET, N.E., SUITE 5200
                             ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30308
                                 (404) 885-3000

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
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                                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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                                                                       Proposed           Proposed
                                                       Amount           maximum            maximum
   Title of securities to be registered                to be         offering price       aggregate          Amount of
                                                    registered (1)    per share (2)   offering price (2)  registration fee
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<S>                                                 <C>              <C>              <C>                 <C>
Shares of common stock, $.01 par value (the           1,000,000          $13.32          $13,320,000         $3,516.48
"Common Stock"), issuable pursuant to the               shares
 ANTEC Corporation Employee Savings Plan
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</TABLE>

(1)      In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933,
         this registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of
         interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan
         described herein.

(2)      Pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933, the proposed
         maximum offering price per share is estimated solely for the purpose of
         calculating the registration fee and is based upon the average of the
         high and low sales prices of the common stock of the registrant as
         reported on the Nasdaq National Market on October 20, 2000, a date
         within five business days of the date on which this registration
         statement is being filed.

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                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS

         As permitted by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission"), this registration statement omits the information specified
in Part I of Form S-8. The documents containing the information specified in
Part I will be delivered to the participants in the ANTEC Corporation Employee
Savings Plan (the "Plan") as required by Rule 428(b) under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). Such documents are not being filed with
the Commission as part of this registration statement or as prospectuses or
prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act.

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

         The following documents, which have heretofore been filed by ANTEC
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), with the Commission
pursuant to the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the "Exchange Act"), are incorporated by reference herein and shall be
deemed to be part hereof:

         (a)      the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
                  ended December 31, 1999;

         (b)      the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
                  quarter ended March 31, 2000;

         (c)      the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
                  quarter ended June 30, 2000;

         (d)      all other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of
                  the Exchange Act since the filing of the Annual Report on Form
                  10-K;

         (e)      the description of the Company's Common Stock under the
                  caption "Description of Registrant's Securities to be
                  Registered" included in the Company's Registration Statement
                  on Form 8-A dated September 2, 1993 and amended on September
                  14, 1993.

         All documents filed subsequent to the date of this registration
statement by the undersigned Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14
and 15(d) of the 1934 Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
hereto, which indicates that all shares of Common Stock offered hereby have been
sold or which deregisters any shares of such Common Stock then remaining unsold,
shall also be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration
statement and to be a part hereof from their respective dates of filing. Any
statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of
this registration statement to the extent that a statement contained herein, or
in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein, modifies or supersedes such statement. Any
statement contained in this registration statement shall be deemed to be
modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained in a
subsequently filed document which is or is deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so


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modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
to constitute a part of this registration statement.

Item 4.  Description of Securities.

         Not applicable.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

         Not applicable.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

         Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL")
authorizes and the Company's Bylaws require the Company to indemnify the
directors and officers of the Company against liabilities incurred in connection
with, and related expenses resulting from, any claim, action or suit brought
against any such person as a result of his relationship with the Company,
provided that such persons acted in accordance with a stated standard of conduct
in connection with the acts or events on which such claim, action or suit is
based. The finding of either civil or criminal liability on the part of such
persons in connection with such acts or events is not necessarily determinative
of the questions of whether such persons have met the required standard of
conduct and are, accordingly, entitled to be indemnified

         In addition, the Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as
amended, provides that the Company's directors do not have personal liability to
the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of their
fiduciary duty as directors except (i) for a breach of the duty of loyalty, (ii)
for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct
or knowing violation of the law, (iii) for willful or negligent violations of
certain provisions in the DGCL imposing certain requirements with respect to
stock repurchases, redemptions and dividends or (iv) for any transaction from
which the director derived an improper personal benefit. Subject to these
exceptions, directors do not have any personal liability to the Company or its
stockholders for any violation of their fiduciary duty.

         The Company has purchased insurance policies that, if any officer or
director of the Company or its subsidiaries becomes legally obligated to make a
payment (including legal fees and expenses) in connection with an alleged
wrongful act, the insurer will reimburse such officers and directors if the
indemnification payments, as provided above, are not made by the Company or its
subsidiaries to such officers and directors. Wrongful act means any breach of
duty, neglect, error, misstatement, misleading statement or other act done by an
officer or director of the Company or any subsidiary.

Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed.

         Not applicable.


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<PAGE>   4

Item 8.  Exhibits.

         The following exhibits are filed as part of this Registration
Statement:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
         Exhibit
         Number
         -------
         <S>      <C>
         4        ANTEC Corporation Employee Savings Plan

         5        (a) No opinion of counsel is required inasmuch as all shares
                  of the Company's Common Stock to be offered and sold under the
                  Plan will be obtained in open market transactions and none
                  will be original issue securities.

                  (b) The registrant will submit, or has submitted, the ANTEC
                  Corporation Employee Savings Plan and any amendment thereto to
                  the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") in a timely manner, and
                  has made or will make all changes required by the IRS in order
                  to qualify and/or continue to maintain the qualified status of
                  such Plan.

         23       Consent of Independent Auditors.

         24       Power of Attorney (included in the signature page to the
                  Registration Statement).
</TABLE>

Item 9.  Undertakings.

         (a)      The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

                  (1)      To file, during any period in which offers or sales
                  are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
                  registration statement:

                           (i)      To include any prospectus required by
                           Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

                           (ii)     To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
                           events arising after the effective date of the
                           registration statement (or the most recent
                           post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually
                           or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change
                           in the information set forth in the registration
                           statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any
                           increase or decrease in volume of securities offered
                           (if the total dollar value of securities offered
                           would not exceed that which was registered) and any
                           deviation from the low or high end of the estimated
                           maximum offering range may be reflected in the form
                           of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to
                           Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in
                           volume and price represent no more than 20 percent
                           change in the maximum aggregate offering price set
                           forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table
                           in the effective registration statement;

                           (iii)    To include any material information with
                           respect to the plan of distribution not previously
                           disclosed in the registration statement or any
                           material change to such information in the
                           registration statement;

                  Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do
                  not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form
                  S-8 or Form F-3, and the information


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<PAGE>   5

                  required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
                  paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or
                  furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to
                  Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
                  incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

                  (2)      That, for the purpose of determining any liability
                  under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment
                  shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to
                  the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
                  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                  fide offering thereof.

                  (3)      To remove from registration by means of a
                  post-effective amendment any of the securities being
                  registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
                  offering.

         (b)      The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of
the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         (c)      Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.


                                       5
<PAGE>   6

                                   SIGNATURES

         The Registrant. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it
meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Duluth, State of Georgia, on October 25, 2000.

                                         ANTEC Corporation
                                         (Registrant)



                                         By:    /s/ Lawrence A. Margolis
                                                -------------------------------
                                         Name:  Lawrence A. Margolis
                                         Title: Executive Vice President


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Lawrence A. Margolis, Robert J. Stanzione
and James E. Knox, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his
name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto,
and other documents in connection therewith with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and
authority to do and to perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully and to all intents and
purposes as he might or would do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitutes may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
              SIGNATURE                            TITLE                                DATE
              ---------                            -----                                ----


<S>                                 <C>                                           <C>
/s/ Robert J. Stanzione                         President,
---------------------------         Chief Executive Officer and Director          October 24, 2000
Robert J. Stanzione


/s/ John M. Egan                           Chairman of the Board                  October 24, 2000
---------------------------                    and Director
John M. Egan


/s/ Lawrence A. Margolis                 Executive Vice President,                October 24, 2000
---------------------------              Chief Financial Officer
Lawrence A. Margolis
</TABLE>


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<TABLE>
<S>                                    <C>                 <C>
/s/ Rod F. Dammeyer                    Director            October 23, 2000
---------------------------
Rod F. Dammeyer


/s/ John R. Petty                      Director            October 23, 2000
---------------------------
John R. Petty


                                       Director            October ___, 2000
---------------------------
Larry Romrell


                                       Director            October __, 2000
---------------------------
Bruce Van Wagner


/s/ Samuel K. Skinner                  Director            October 23, 2000
---------------------------
Samuel K. Skinner


/s/ James L. Faust                     Director            October 25, 2000
---------------------------
James L. Faust


                                       Director            October __, 2000
---------------------------
J.A. Ian Craig


/s/ William T. Schleyer                Director            October 22, 2000
---------------------------
William T. Schleyer


/s/ William H. Lambert                 Director            October 23, 2000
---------------------------
William H. Lambert
</TABLE>


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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
     Exhibit
     Number                      Description of Exhibit
     ------                      ----------------------
     <S>          <C>
        4         ANTEC Corporation Employee Savings Plan
       23         Consent of Independent Auditors
       24         Power of Attorney (included in the signature page to the
                  Registration Statement)
</TABLE>


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1
 As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 26, 2000.
                                                      Registration No. 333-_____
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                                ANTEC CORPORATION
               (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)

            DELAWARE                                            36-3892082
 (State or other jurisdiction of                             (I.R.S. Employer
 incorporation or organization)                             Identification No.)

                             11450 TECHNOLOGY CIRCLE
                                DULUTH, GA 30097
                                 (678) 473-2000
                   (Address, including zip code, and telephone
                     number of principal executive offices)

                     ANTEC CORPORATION EMPLOYEE SAVINGS PLAN
                            (Full title of the plan)

                              LAWRENCE A. MARGOLIS
                             11450 TECHNOLOGY CIRCLE
                              DULUTH, GEORGIA 30097
                                 (678) 473-2000
 (Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

        The Commission is requested to mail signed copies of all orders,
                         notices and communications to:

                           W. BRINKLEY DICKERSON, JR.
                              TROUTMAN SANDERS LLP
                     600 PEACHTREE STREET, N.E., SUITE 5200
                             ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30308
                                 (404) 885-3000
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                                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                       Proposed           Proposed
                                                       Amount           maximum            maximum
   Title of securities to be registered                to be         offering price       aggregate          Amount of
                                                    registered (1)    per share (2)   offering price (2)  registration fee
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shares of common stock, $.01 par value (the           1,000,000          $13.32          $13,320,000         $3,516.48
"Common Stock"), issuable pursuant to the               shares
 ANTEC Corporation Employee Savings Plan
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1)      In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933,
         this registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of
         interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan
         described herein.

(2)      Pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933, the proposed
         maximum offering price per share is estimated solely for the purpose of
         calculating the registration fee and is based upon the average of the
         high and low sales prices of the common stock of the registrant as
         reported on the Nasdaq National Market on October 20, 2000, a date
         within five business days of the date on which this registration
         statement is being filed.

================================================================================
2

                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS

         As permitted by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission"), this registration statement omits the information specified
in Part I of Form S-8. The documents containing the information specified in
Part I will be delivered to the participants in the ANTEC Corporation Employee
Savings Plan (the "Plan") as required by Rule 428(b) under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). Such documents are not being filed with
the Commission as part of this registration statement or as prospectuses or
prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act.

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

         The following documents, which have heretofore been filed by ANTEC
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), with the Commission
pursuant to the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the "Exchange Act"), are incorporated by reference herein and shall be
deemed to be part hereof:

         (a)      the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
                  ended December 31, 1999;

         (b)      the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
                  quarter ended March 31, 2000;

         (c)      the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
                  quarter ended June 30, 2000;

         (d)      all other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of
                  the Exchange Act since the filing of the Annual Report on Form
                  10-K;

         (e)      the description of the Company's Common Stock under the
                  caption "Description of Registrant's Securities to be
                  Registered" included in the Company's Registration Statement
                  on Form 8-A dated September 2, 1993 and amended on September
                  14, 1993.

         All documents filed subsequent to the date of this registration
statement by the undersigned Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14
and 15(d) of the 1934 Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
hereto, which indicates that all shares of Common Stock offered hereby have been
sold or which deregisters any shares of such Common Stock then remaining unsold,
shall also be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration
statement and to be a part hereof from their respective dates of filing. Any
statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of
this registration statement to the extent that a statement contained herein, or
in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein, modifies or supersedes such statement. Any
statement contained in this registration statement shall be deemed to be
modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained in a
subsequently filed document which is or is deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so

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3

modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
to constitute a part of this registration statement.

Item 4.  Description of Securities.

         Not applicable.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

         Not applicable.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

         Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL")
authorizes and the Company's Bylaws require the Company to indemnify the
directors and officers of the Company against liabilities incurred in connection
with, and related expenses resulting from, any claim, action or suit brought
against any such person as a result of his relationship with the Company,
provided that such persons acted in accordance with a stated standard of conduct
in connection with the acts or events on which such claim, action or suit is
based. The finding of either civil or criminal liability on the part of such
persons in connection with such acts or events is not necessarily determinative
of the questions of whether such persons have met the required standard of
conduct and are, accordingly, entitled to be indemnified

         In addition, the Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as
amended, provides that the Company's directors do not have personal liability to
the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of their
fiduciary duty as directors except (i) for a breach of the duty of loyalty, (ii)
for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct
or knowing violation of the law, (iii) for willful or negligent violations of
certain provisions in the DGCL imposing certain requirements with respect to
stock repurchases, redemptions and dividends or (iv) for any transaction from
which the director derived an improper personal benefit. Subject to these
exceptions, directors do not have any personal liability to the Company or its
stockholders for any violation of their fiduciary duty.

         The Company has purchased insurance policies that, if any officer or
director of the Company or its subsidiaries becomes legally obligated to make a
payment (including legal fees and expenses) in connection with an alleged
wrongful act, the insurer will reimburse such officers and directors if the
indemnification payments, as provided above, are not made by the Company or its
subsidiaries to such officers and directors. Wrongful act means any breach of
duty, neglect, error, misstatement, misleading statement or other act done by an
officer or director of the Company or any subsidiary.

Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed.

         Not applicable.

                                       3
4

Item 8.  Exhibits.

         The following exhibits are filed as part of this Registration
Statement:
Exhibit
         Number
         -------
4        ANTEC Corporation Employee Savings Plan

         5        (a) No opinion of counsel is required inasmuch as all shares
                  of the Company's Common Stock to be offered and sold under the
                  Plan will be obtained in open market transactions and none
                  will be original issue securities.

                  (b) The registrant will submit, or has submitted, the ANTEC
                  Corporation Employee Savings Plan and any amendment thereto to
                  the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") in a timely manner, and
                  has made or will make all changes required by the IRS in order
                  to qualify and/or continue to maintain the qualified status of
                  such Plan.

         23       Consent of Independent Auditors.

         24       Power of Attorney (included in the signature page to the
                  Registration Statement).
Item 9.  Undertakings.

         (a)      The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

                  (1)      To file, during any period in which offers or sales
                  are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
                  registration statement:

                           (i)      To include any prospectus required by
                           Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

                           (ii)     To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
                           events arising after the effective date of the
                           registration statement (or the most recent
                           post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually
                           or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change
                           in the information set forth in the registration
                           statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any
                           increase or decrease in volume of securities offered
                           (if the total dollar value of securities offered
                           would not exceed that which was registered) and any
                           deviation from the low or high end of the estimated
                           maximum offering range may be reflected in the form
                           of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to
                           Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in
                           volume and price represent no more than 20 percent
                           change in the maximum aggregate offering price set
                           forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table
                           in the effective registration statement;

                           (iii)    To include any material information with
                           respect to the plan of distribution not previously
                           disclosed in the registration statement or any
                           material change to such information in the
                           registration statement;

                  Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do
                  not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form
                  S-8 or Form F-3, and the information

                                       4
5

                  required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
                  paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or
                  furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to
                  Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
                  incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

                  (2)      That, for the purpose of determining any liability
                  under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment
                  shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to
                  the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
                  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                  fide offering thereof.

                  (3)      To remove from registration by means of a
                  post-effective amendment any of the securities being
                  registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
                  offering.

         (b)      The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of
the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         (c)      Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.

                                       5
6

                                   SIGNATURES

         The Registrant. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it
meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Duluth, State of Georgia, on October 25, 2000.

                                         ANTEC Corporation
                                         (Registrant)

                                         By:    /s/ Lawrence A. Margolis
                                                -------------------------------
                                         Name:  Lawrence A. Margolis
                                         Title: Executive Vice President

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Lawrence A. Margolis, Robert J. Stanzione
and James E. Knox, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his
name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto,
and other documents in connection therewith with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and
authority to do and to perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully and to all intents and
purposes as he might or would do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitutes may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
SIGNATURE                            TITLE                                DATE
              ---------                            -----                                ----
/s/ Robert J. Stanzione                         President,
---------------------------         Chief Executive Officer and Director          October 24, 2000
Robert J. Stanzione

/s/ John M. Egan                           Chairman of the Board                  October 24, 2000
---------------------------                    and Director
John M. Egan

/s/ Lawrence A. Margolis                 Executive Vice President,                October 24, 2000
---------------------------              Chief Financial Officer
Lawrence A. Margolis
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/s/ Rod F. Dammeyer                    Director            October 23, 2000
---------------------------
Rod F. Dammeyer

/s/ John R. Petty                      Director            October 23, 2000
---------------------------
John R. Petty

                                       Director            October ___, 2000
---------------------------
Larry Romrell

                                       Director            October __, 2000
---------------------------
Bruce Van Wagner

/s/ Samuel K. Skinner                  Director            October 23, 2000
---------------------------
Samuel K. Skinner

/s/ James L. Faust                     Director            October 25, 2000
---------------------------
James L. Faust

                                       Director            October __, 2000
---------------------------
J.A. Ian Craig

/s/ William T. Schleyer                Director            October 22, 2000
---------------------------
William T. Schleyer

/s/ William H. Lambert                 Director            October 23, 2000
---------------------------
William H. Lambert
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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
     Number                      Description of Exhibit
     ------                      ----------------------
4         ANTEC Corporation Employee Savings Plan
       23         Consent of Independent Auditors
       24         Power of Attorney (included in the signature page to the
                  Registration Statement)
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