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| With our fourth quarter guidance, total 2023 revenue is expected to grow approximately 5% to 6% on a full year basis, and non-GAAP operating margin will expand by more than 100 basis points |
| Better than expected results during the third quarter, with total revenue of $1.398 billion, exceeding the midpoint of our guidance |
| Profitability was also strong in Q3, as our non-GAAP growth and operating margins both exceeded expectations, resulting in non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.60, which was above the high end of our quarterly guidance range |
| It's just that in the Enterprise space, orders continue to be very robust, and we expect order growth next year |
| We remain confident in our positioning from a technology perspective and our ability to win across industry verticals as customers increasingly look to leverage AIOps and software automation tools to improve network operations and reduce overhead costs, what we call experience-first networking |
| We believe our attention to providing customers with the best user experience, along with our continued go-to-market focus, will position us to deliver healthy, long-term growth and improved profitability |
| Apstra new logos have grown by 80% on a year-over-year basis, and the pipeline remains incredibly solid |
| Our Enterprise business remained healthy as orders experienced high single digit sequential growth and exceeded our expectations |
| And number two, the Enterprise vertical, this is the fourth quarter of very, very strong growth, 37% |
| I am extremely encouraged by the momentum we're seeing in our Enterprise business, which once again delivered record revenue results and accounted for more than 50% of total revenue for the first time in Juniper's history |
| Total Enterprise revenue grew by nearly 40% year-over-year in the Q3 timeframe and represented our largest and fastest growing vertical for a fourth consecutive quarter |
| Importantly, new logos saw another quarter of healthy double-digit growth, and we continue to see strong mid-market success as enterprise deal registration through the channel grew by more than 20% year-over-year and commercial orders grew by nearly 20% year-over-year |
| We believe continued growth in new logos and mid-market strength speaks to the differentiation of our products and our ability to capture share |
| Our campus and branch business had another record quarter in Q3 with our AI-driven enterprise revenue growing more than 40% year-over-year |
| Revenue from the mystified segment of our business, which consists of products driven by Mist AI, also had a record quarter growing by nearly 100% year-over-year in the Q3 time frame |
| So I expect our Enterprise revenue -- I expect our Enterprise business to grow faster than market |
| All up, I'm optimistic about the opportunity |
| We see these benefits resulting in share gain opportunities as customers transition from legacy on-prem solutions managed by people to next-gen solutions managed using AI and the cloud |
| We believe this architectural transition remains in the early innings and will represent attractive growth opportunities for years to come |
| However, the momentum behind Ethernet in the industry is very strong |
| Initial demand for our cloud-based network access control product was also strong, securing more than 50 customer wins in a little more than a quarter of availability, with customers highlighting dramatic reductions in rollout time from days to minutes and simplified operations as being key differentiators |
| Mystified strength was broad-based across the portfolio with record wireless, wired, and SD-WAN revenue in the quarter, as well as record full-stack wins where customers purchased several of these campus and branch products together |
| We view momentum with these full-stack wins as a positive forward indicator, given our belief that for every dollar of wireless, there is $2 to $3 of wired switching and additional SD-WAN and NAC opportunity |
| Our Enterprise data center business also performed well in Q3, with Apstra continuing to see strong momentum in the market |
| Apstra new logos grew by more than 80% year-over-year in Q3, and the pipeline of opportunities remain solid |
| Hardware pull-through for every dollar of Apstra software has been meaningful and growing, which we view as a positive forward indicator for our data center prospects |
| So I'm actually quite bullish about the AI cluster opportunity |
| And eventually, we'll have the benefit of a rebounding SP and Cloud business in addition to an Enterprise business that I believe will continue to perform well without all of the typical gyrations of the business that we have endured in SP and Cloud historically |
| I'm very optimistic about the competitiveness of our solutions in the market, whether it be a challenged market or not |
| Our optimism is driven by our strong wide-area footprint, the rapid traffic growth that continues in many of these customers' environments and the opportunity to capitalize on the adoption of large language model and the build-out of AI clusters, where we are seeing strong customer engagement that is driving optimism regarding our opportunity to benefit as the industry increasingly considers Ethernet as the right choice for a wide array of AI-ML use cases, including front-end, back-end, in-print and storage networks |
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| Automated WAN solutions revenue declined 18%, and cloud-ready data center revenue declined 26% |
| Cloud is challenging as we expected |
| Our Service Provider business softened in Q3 and was impacted by some of the macro uncertainties that are happening around the world |
| Cloud and Service Provider demand remained pressured due to digestion of previously placed orders and an unfavorable macroeconomic environment |
| What is driving it? And then once we get to next quarter and the following four quarters, the comps are very tough |
| Service Provider was a little bit weaker than we anticipated, but in aggregate, it was as expected |
| As a reminder, prior to the industry-wide supply chain shortage, we historically experienced double-digit sequential revenue declines in the first quarter followed by sequential revenue growth throughout the remainder of the year |
| The macroeconomic environment is expected to remain challenged, which has been factored into our outlook |
| However, we expect demand from Cloud and Service Provider customers to remain constrained as they continue to digest previously placed orders |
| Number one is the Cloud decline -- Cloud vertical declined 28% this year -- this quarter |
| The one area that has gone negative, if you will, or have gotten worse over the last 12 months are those inventory carrying fees that I mentioned |
| I mean, clearly, the backlog drawdown that we're going through in 2023 is going to provide a pretty significant headwind to revenue in 2024 |
| If revenue declines were to get larger than that, it would be more challenging |
| Service Provider is probably incrementally more challenging |
| In terms of the broader question, however, I see a number of the third-party market research firms expect the campus environment, both wireless LAN and campus switching, will decline in 2024 |
| The biggest thing driving the decline today is the fact that lead times have gone from what was over a year to normal, just a few weeks |
| But obviously, yeah, it becomes more difficult from a year-over-year standpoint |
| These dynamics are causing many carriers to more closely scrutinize budgets and, in some case, to run their networks harder than planned |
| But as you look at just the maintenance business, which is what you talked about and the growth there, really, there's a lagging indicator of what we've seen in the past couple of years on the product side |
| I expect it to continue to come down in the fourth quarter as well |
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