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| We continue to see strong demand for our market-leading technology solutions as customers recognize the value add that we bring to their businesses |
| Harmonic continues to be exceptionally well-positioned to drive sustained growth and shareholder value creation |
| For Broadband, we still expect to see a rebound in Q4 and the potential to hit a record quarter in revenue |
| Our technology execution and differentiation remains very strong |
| We're uniquely positioned, for sustained period of network investment and we therefore remain fully on track, to deliver strong multiyear growth |
| The question is not one of if, but it's the exact timing and we - think we're making good progress with leading customers who are onboarding with CableOS -- cOS, excuse me, at this time |
| With live sports still in the early innings of migrating to streaming platforms, we believe there are substantial runway for growth in our video SaaS |
| Now look, it doesn't mean we're going to be deploying with them next week, but as we look at the continued trajectory of this business, where we're feeling that the industry and we with our products and technology are in a very good place |
| We've got excellent relationship with Broadcom and we're grateful for the excellent alignment with our customers and we think, we're in good shape there |
| As we pieced apart and we had a record quarter for new SaaS ads |
| Equally impressive has been the edge device work we've done to enable unified supportive FDX, ESD, and fiber, providing deployment optionality, it's a game changer for the industry |
| And I think more than ever before, we're positioned to take advantage of this |
| We're going to see a mix of all of the above, and it's hard to exactly forecast, but, at the risk of being too cliched, I mean we're giving our customers an amazingly powerful Swiss Army knife that really allows them - to be flexible, to be reactive, to competitive as well as customer demand opportunity, and you're going to see a mix of all of it, Ryan |
| In parallel with this advanced DOCSIS work, we've also been making impressive progress in the fiber-to-the-home area |
| We believe our Broadband segment is well-positioned for future growth |
| The growing fiber success with existing DOCSIS customers highlights the value cable operators see in our unique cOS core with its flexibility, to simultaneously power DOCSIS and fiber edge devices |
| We ended the quarter with strong backlog and deferred revenue showing our alignment with our customers' growth plans and giving us further confidence in our long-range growth prospects |
| And then the net new wins outside of our traditional cable operator footprint demonstrate our expanding fiber sales focus and success |
| Second, our video SaaS business continues, to deliver strong recurring revenue growth of 42% in the third quarter on a year-over-year basis, with several new customers recently won and being on-boarded |
| In summary, we remain confident in our technology, our market position, and in our growth opportunities for our broadband business |
| Spanning broadband cable and fiber, with continuing strong backlog and deferred revenue, very strong customer endorsements, for example, the recent SCTE Expo in Denver, and new design wins in every geography, we're well-positioned for sustained growth |
| Our strong backlog reflects continued demand, from our large broadband customers and growing video SaaS commitments |
| Highlighting the accelerating transition to streaming SaaS, new wins happened at a record pace as our total SaaS customer base grew by 20% |
| However, our domestic and international sales pipelines for the coming periods has actually grown and we're starting to see encouraging signs of pent-up demand and a resumption of activity |
| Live sports remains the primary driver of these new SaaS wins with exceptional video quality, low latency, flexible target that ad insertion, and a broad array of quality-related benefits continue to differentiate us in the market |
| First, regarding our broadband business, we're financially healthy |
| The number of global customers deploying our solution reached 104, up 21% year-over-year, with corresponding 23.5 million DOCSIS cable modems now served worldwide, approximately 13% of cable modems deployed globally, highlighting the significant footprint expansion opportunity still in front of us |
| While anticipation of DOCSIS 4.0 rollout may impact certain customers' near-term deployment plans, the mid-to-long-term story for Harmonic is quite positive |
| Except to say that we're making good progress there, as we are with other customers we're - in the midst of onboarding |
| The highlight of the quarter was again SaaS revenue, $12.5 million, up 42% year-over-year |
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| Turning to Slide 8, total Q3 revenue was down 18.3% year-over-year, mainly due to the factors I mentioned earlier |
| Total revenue was $51.4 million, down from $63.8 million a year ago, reflecting our intentional SaaS transformation and several video appliance project delays as select customers contend with macroeconomic headwinds |
| Video segment gross margin, was 56.9% in Q3, '23 reflecting macroeconomic headwinds and project delays noted earlier |
| Total company gross margin was 49.5% for Q3, '23 reflecting, decreased gross margins in both of our business segments sequentially |
| We delivered segment revenue of $75.8 million, down from $91.9 million a year ago, largely as expected |
| You'll recall last quarter, we anticipated this third quarter revenue decline, for two related reasons |
| On the appliance side of the business, which is more capital-intensive for our customers, we saw several instances of extended project delays |
| The short-term macroeconomic headwinds were frustrating have not impacted our market share |
| In video, Q3 revenue was $51.4 million while video appliance sales were lower due to the factors I noted earlier |
| We expect broadband to deliver revenue between $105 million and $120 million below our prior guidance at the midpoint, gross margins between 44% to 45% reflecting, a similar product mix as in Q3, operating expenses between $29 million to $30 million, and adjusted EBITDA between $19 million to $26 million |
| Looking at broadband, Q3 revenue was $75.8 million, the year-over-year decline was due largely to inventory adjustments by our broadband customers |
| So to be clear, in addition to some appliance deal delays, we're also seeing more appliance customers starting to transition to SaaS |
| For Q3, we were below one after several quarters of being above one |
| Due to changes in the marketplace and our customer strategies, synergies between our broadband and video businesses are now less compelling |
| The inventory decline in the quarter was a result of lower in-feed as we continue to tighten our supply chain |
| If you roll back 12 months ago, think about it, there was uncertainty about Remote PHY versus Remote MAC-PHY |
| A lot of uncertainty and confusion |
| Let's say, 50% responsible for the weakness we saw in appliance |
| There was all the stress about FDX versus ESD |
| Regarding DOCSIS 4.0, the progress has been stunning |
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