Ken Xie
Analyst · Raymond James
Thank you, Nancy, and good afternoon, everyone. We come off of our strong Q4 and feel really good about our momentum going into Q1, so our finance results fell short of our expectation. So from a high-level perspective, we believe the service-provider-specific issue and some macroeconomic and the geopolitical issue were the primary reason for the revenue and billing shortfall. So importantly, we feel worst market has drawn about [ph] the strength of our product. We believe our global competitive position remains strong. And of note, our miss was not specifically relate to the last of significant deal to competitors during the quarter. So let me address the primary factor that affect our Q1 performance. At first, we had a few large service provider deals in U.S. did not close as expected. In this case, deals were not lost during the quarter. Our total telco service provider vertical is currently expect to have contribute approximately 25% of total Q1 2013 billing compared to approximately 30% in Q1 2012. So second, additionally, a minority of macroeconomic and the geopolitical issue affect our performance in North America and the EMEA, of which I will discuss -- address further in a minute. And finally, a less extent, the timing of new appliance product releases and inventory shortages also contribute to some of the miss. Bookings is down from a geographic perspective. So I'm very pleased to say, we have a very strong performance in Asia, especially from Japan, even in light of a currency impact there. So we also did well in Southeast Asia and India. In the Americas, our U.S. enterprise sales team also did well and meet sales target. However, we saw a few large deal with service provider that did not close as expected, as customer approached the purchase with more typical hesitance and cautions. So we're also facing in China and Latin American, which was -- come in several million dollars less than expected. The common transaction and also some economic challenge in various country, coupled with the extensive hiring and the ramp up of salespeople across the region, result in Latin America falling short of expectations. Regarding to EMEA, we faced micro issues across the region. Economic instability and uncertainties throughout many part of Europe caused increased cautions among customer and more conservative spending. So we saw more customers, especially within the enterprise sector, buying only what they needed and hold off on very large project. As a result, we closed few larger deals than we expected. So looking ahead, we believe the security industry remains healthy and growing, with the trends such as a high-speed demand works [ph], advanced persistent threat [ph], mobility and the cloud-based meta-security [ph] service delivery continues to drive it -- continue to be the drivers of our industry. We believe we have a technology leadership position that continue to gain market share and are well positioned for the long-term. So now I would like to open the call for Q&A, and -- but please note that it's -- it is after the quarter end and some of the finance information is not finalized and subject to change. And certain information that we cannot provide today will be provided during our April 30 call. So let's start, operator?