Just as we thought the Harmonic sale saga had been put to bed, one of the company’s minority shareholders has cobbled together a slide deck detailing why the video and broadband technology vendor must explore a full sale of the business to a rival supplier. Activist investor Ancora Holdings, which owns approximately 2.3% of Harmonic stock, is among the investors clearly not taking no for an answer—dissatisfied by the dead-end conclusion of Harmonic’s 2023/2024 strategic review to carve out the video division. The Chicago-based wealth management fund has proposed networking equipment specialist Ciena as the perfect suitor to acquire Harmonic. However, what the investor presentation does not detail is how a full takeover of Harmonic by Ciena would leave the…