Rajeev Suri - Nokia Oyj
Management
Thanks, Gareth. So, on IP routing, we don't believe – there's been a slowdown on the telco side because traffic have moved to the cloud providers. For us, cloud, Google, Apple, all these sorts of enterprise centric – sorry, web-centric companies, is an untapped opportunity. Right? What gives me confidence is that we're getting traction in Optical. We have already revenues established there. So our next generation product will allow us to get into routing as well. And then, there is the whole utilities, transportation, extra-large enterprises, their private LTE network, when it's formed, most of the business actually is IP routing; a lesser part of the business is mobile. So, those two opportunities give me a sense that, for us, it's an untapped opportunity so there is growth potential. On the telco side, yes, there is a bit of a slowdown, but for us the headwind of this third-party routing products' reduction that's been happening in 2016 will go away. And then, of course, co-routing because we have still much more momentum to have in co-routing compared to our edge routing business, given again, the next-generation product that will come sort of later in the year. So those are things that give me confidence in our own position in IP routing and sort of generally in the market, if you look at the market as a broader thing. On gross margin, of course, Q4 benefited from seasonal events, but if you look at overall 2016, where we've had 38.5% gross margin in Networks business and we've been at both sorts of levels now for quite some time. And to me this is a very important metric we're focused on, this KPI matters above all. We want to keep that gross margin strong, and so why is it that we have this? One, we continue to always have product and services cost reductions to offset price erosion in the market. Second, we have benefits in terms of deal quality; we're very strategic and solid around deal quality, given our approval process. We are seeing our continued pricing discipline and now we have applied that whole model operations also to the former Alcatel-Lucent business, and finally we have also seen many cases over the last year where we're getting price premium. There is attractiveness in our solution set because we have this end-to-end product portfolio. We're increasingly been training our people to sell on value relative to price. In some areas of our portfolio, price erosion is just lower compared to mobile, solution selling, cross-selling, whenever you have a multi-business group deal price is of less consideration because it's really the end-to-end solution that matters wrapped around with SI. So those are the things that suggest to me that that's an area that we will continue to focus on very strongly.