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Welcome to the first quarter 2026 Harmonic earnings conference call. My name is Lisa, and I will be your operator for today's call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there'll be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you need to press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Also please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to David Hanover, Investor Relations. David, you may begin.

Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone, thank you for joining us today for Harmonic's first quarter 2026 financial results conference call. With me today are Nimrod Ben-Natan, President and CEO, and Walter Jankovic, Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, I'd like to point out that in addition to the audio portion of the webcast, we've also provided slides for this webcast, which you may view by going to our webcast on our investor relations website. Now turning to slide two. During this call, we will provide projections and other forward-looking statements regarding future events or future financial performance of the company. Such statements are only current expectations and actual events or results may differ materially. We refer you to documents Harmonic filed with the SEC, including our most recent 10-Q and 10-K reports and the forward-looking statements section of today's preliminary results press release.

These documents identify important risk factors which can cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in our projections or forward-looking statements. Please note that unless otherwise indicated, the financial metrics we provide you on this call are determined on a non-GAAP basis. These metrics, together with corresponding GAAP numbers and a reconciliation to GAAP, are contained in today's press release, which we have posted on our website and filed with the SEC on Form 8-K. We will also discuss historical, financial, and other statistical information regarding our business and operation, and some of this information is included in the press release. The remainder of the information will be available on a recorded version of this call on our website. Now I'll turn the call over to our CEO, Nimrod Ben-Natan. Nimrod?

Thanks, David, welcome everyone to our first quarter 2026 earnings call. Q1 marked a strong start to the year and validated the strategy we outlined last quarter. We executed effectively across the business with continued strength in Rest-of-Market demand and with our progress to date, we are entering the remainder of the year with improved visibility. Reflecting this momentum, we are raising our full year 2026 broadband revenue outlook. In addition to our strong financial results, this quarter also highlights our progress in expanding Harmonic's growth profile. In a world where AI is making broadband capacity and quality of service even more essential, we are building a uniquely focused broadband company with multiple growth drivers, sustained leadership in DOCSIS, accelerating momentum in fiber, increasing global market share, and growing intelligence layer that enables new high-value services for our customers.

Turning to slide four, let's look at some of the highlights for the quarter. Q1 broadband revenue rose 43% year-over-year to $121.7 million. A large part of this was from Rest-of-Market, which represented 42% of that total, an important indicator of our progress in broadening and diversifying our business. Booking were also strong in the quarter, driving an 87% increase year-over-year in backlog and deferred revenue. Again, this bolsters our visibility, giving us the confidence to raise our full year outlook. We also continued returning capital to our shareholders, repurchasing approximately 4.2 million shares for $43 million during the quarter. Finally, I want to mention that the pending sale of our video business remains on track to close in the second quarter, positioning Harmonic as a more focused broadband company going forward.

A key highlight in the first quarter was the continued acceleration of our Rest-of-Market business with year-over-year revenue growth well above our long-term growth target. Beyond the increased revenue contribution, this performance demonstrates the expanding global adoption of the Harmonic platform across a broader range of industry operators. Our deployed cOS base now includes 150 customers serving 45.7 million CPE devices. We continue to see expansion within our tier 1 accounts alongside new customer wins, reinforcing our leadership position in the market. We added several new customers in the first quarter, including two recent wins that illustrate the market traction we are experiencing. First, KBRO selected Harmonic's Fiber-on-Demand solution to drive fiber deeper into its network in Taiwan.

Second, Vyve Broadband selected our platform to modernize its network across its U.S. footprint with a clear path for broadband and DOCSIS and fiber convergence. These wins reflect a broader market trend that plays directly to Harmonic's strengths. Operators are increasingly seeking a platform that can start with a specific use case and expand over time across DOCSIS, fiber, and autonomous network intelligence. Fiber is becoming an important growth driver for Harmonic. Over the past year, fiber products represented more than 14% of our appliance and integration revenue, and we expect this contribution to continue growing. In the first quarter, we secured multiple new fiber wins, including with international providers, while also expanding deployments with our largest tier 1 fiber customers. We're also seeing traction with SeaStar, our MDU optical node, including a sizable Q1 booking with a leading European broadband operator.

At next week's Fiber Connect conference, we will introduce new outside plant innovations, including the Pearl-1XL and Jetty-3, designed to improve deployment efficiency, deliver industry-leading port density, extend network reach, enhance resilience, and simplify operations. These solutions enhance our ability to serve rural MDU and lower density fiber opportunities where deployments cost and operational complexity are critical factors. Together, our growing fiber traction, expanding portfolio, and converged cOS architecture position Harmonic to gain share as operators look for more flexible and cost-effective ways to expand fiber broadband. Our unified DOCSIS 4.0 strategy also continues to gain commercial traction. During the first quarter, we expanded our DOCSIS 4.0 customer base with new wins while advancing deployments with existing customers. At the same time, we have continued building a solid pipeline for additional opportunities.

DOCSIS 4.0 is increasingly about more than extending the network to 1.8 gigahertz or delivering faster downstream speeds. We are seeing operators use DOCSIS 4.0 to increase upstream capacity while they continue densifying their network and optimizing existing infrastructure. With upstream traffic growing rapidly, including approximately 20% annually at one of our leading North American operators, our unified DOCSIS 4.0 solution gives operators a flexible path to higher multi-gigabit upstream performance, whether through full 1.8 gigahertz upgrades, reclaiming spectrum from legacy QAM video, increasing node density, or other capital efficient approaches. As I mentioned, operators are looking for platforms that let them use DOCSIS and fiber together. A recent Light Reading interview with Optimum provides a compelling illustration of this approach.

In their West Virginia deployment, built on Harmonic's cOS broadband platform, Optimum is leveraging virtualization to modernize HFC infrastructure and consolidate headend facilities by 50%. As their team noted, the architecture enables them to simultaneously deliver XGS-PON and DOCSIS off of the same node, allowing them to build where demand dictates rather than overbuilding to every location. This is precisely the unique value of Harmonic's converged architecture, one platform, multiple access technologies, and more capital efficient choices for operators. Operators are increasingly focused on business outcomes rather than speed alone, a shift that plays directly to Harmonic's strengths. Harmonic is uniquely positioned here because our virtualized platform sees the network in real time across the core, the edge, and the subscriber experience. Our relatively new Beacon and Pathfinder solutions already help operators maximize network performance while reducing both truck rolls and customer calls.

Early deployments are showing tangible value, including a measured reduction of more than 30% in customer calls following Beacon enablement. The newest addition to our intelligent portfolio is Amply, a multi-vendor amplifier management software solution that extends our network visibility into a part of the network where we have not traditionally played. Built on a unique combination of Harmonic cOS platform intelligence, Beacon speed maximizer, and orchestration capabilities, Amply helps operators identify and address sources of network interference faster and more effectively. Amply maps the amplifier network, uses AI-driven analysis to pinpoint where issues are coming from, and helps direct field technicians with precise, actionable instructions, including the location and likely cause of the problem. It can also apply mitigation techniques to protect the subscriber experience while repairs are underway.

We believe this can significantly reduce repair time and field operation costs, creating meaningful opportunity for measurable OpEx savings while improving network reliability and subscriber experience. We will be showcasing Amply at the upcoming ANGA COM in Germany. Our customer momentum is increasingly tied to measurable outcomes. One of our leading customers recently stated publicly that they are improving reliability across the network, are pleased with the results where upgrades have been completed, and are seeing measurable progress in NPS. These outcomes are showing up in our customer scores. Our own customer NPS reached 85 in the first quarter, up from 82 at year-end 2025. Reflecting the execution, partnership, and trust we have built with operators undertaking strategic multi-year network transformations. Turning to slide five. As presented during the last earnings call, the market opportunity ahead of us remains substantial.

According to the Dell'Oro's recent outlook, the cable serviceable addressable market is expected to grow to more than $1.1 million by 2030. The fiber addressable exceeds $2.6 billion, and our share in that market is growing. On top of this, network intelligence and associated autonomous AI-driven operations, uniquely made possible through our virtualized core, represent an incremental addressable opportunity and an important new growth vector for Harmonic. We believe longer-term industry investment in broadband technology will not be defined by one upgrade cycle. Rather, we see ongoing reinforcing phases of modernization. DOCSIS 4.0 and upstream capacity expansion followed by network densification, AI-powered autonomous operations, targeted fiber expansion, and broader migration to fiber as new demand and economic support it.

The multi-year evolution will drive more capacity, automation, and intelligence at every layer of the network, and more opportunity for providers of the enabling technology. Because Harmonic spans DOCSIS fiber and increasingly intelligent services, we believe we are best positioned to capture market share and create value across multiple investment phases and cycles. Turning to slide six, our long-term strategy remains centered on four priorities. First, we are extending our leadership in DOCSIS while accelerating our global fiber position through our converged cOS architecture. This allows operators to modernize with greater flexibility across DOCSIS fiber and future access upgrades. Second, we are increasing customer diversification. The strong Rest-of-Market growth we achieved in the first quarter demonstrates meaningful progress towards broadening our revenue base beyond our largest customers. Third, we are leading with intelligence.

Our cloud-native architecture and real-time telemetry give us a unique foundation for proactive operation, automated troubleshooting, improved customer outcomes, and new recurring revenue opportunities. Fourth, we are driving operating leverage as we simplify our cost structure and become a pure-play broadband business. Together, these priorities are designed to expand our addressable market, diversify our revenue mix, and improve our long-term operating margin profile. This is where Harmonic's differentiation becomes clear. We help operators modernize faster with greater flexibility and lower operational complexity. Turning to slide seven, we are becoming a focused and well-rounded broadband company with leadership in virtualized DOCSIS, growing momentum in fiber, and differentiated intelligence layer that helps operators improve reliability, automate operations, and deliver better subscriber experiences. The pending sale of our video business will further sharpen our strategic focus, simplify our operating model, and provide additional capital to support our growth strategy.

We will remain disciplined in capital allocation, investing organically, returning capital where appropriate, and considering selective inorganic opportunities where they accelerate the diversification or advance our platform. That concludes my opening remarks. With that, I will turn the call over to Walter to walk you through our financials in more detail.

Thanks, Nimrod. Thank you all for joining us today. Before I discuss our quarterly results and outlook, I'd like to remind everyone the financial results I'll be referring to on this call are provided on a non-GAAP basis. As David mentioned earlier, our Q1 press release and earnings presentation include reconciliations of our non-GAAP to GAAP financial measures. Both of these are available on our website. As previously announced, we are in the process of selling our video business to MediaKind. As a result, this segment has been classified as held for sale and reported as discontinued operations. Unless otherwise noted, all results discussed today relate to continuing operations. The transaction is progressing as planned and remains on track to close in the second quarter of this year, subject to customary closing conditions.

With that context, I'm pleased to report that we had a strong start to the year with Q1 revenue and earnings that exceeded the high end of our guidance range, including 43% year-over-year growth in broadband revenue and 78% growth in Rest-of-Market revenue. In addition, we had solid quarterly bookings and ended with record backlog and deferred revenue. This gives us greater visibility and added confidence in our 2026 trajectory, and combined with the unified DOCSIS 4.0 ramps, large customer deployment plans, and accelerating Rest-of-Market adoption, will help drive strong broadband revenue growth throughout the course of this year. Given our continued momentum, we're raising our full-year broadband revenue guidance to $475 million-$495 million, up from our prior range of $440 million-$480 million.

I'll provide a more detailed breakout of our guidance shortly. Let's move on to slide nine. Here are the financial highlights for the quarter. Continuing operations broadband revenue was $121.7 million, above our guidance range of $100 million-$105 million. EPS was $0.17, also above our guidance range of $0.11-$0.12. Operating profit was $26 million, exceeding our guidance of $18 million-$20 million. These results include $2.3 million in stranded costs related to the pending video business sale. The revenue upside was across multiple customers and accelerated service deployments. In Q1, two customers each accounted for more than 10% of revenue, together representing 58% of total revenue. As a reminder, this metric now reflects our broadband business only as we've reclassified video as discontinued operations.

Our Q1 Rest-of-Market revenue showed very strong year-over-year growth of 78%, representing 42% of total revenue, underscoring our progress in expanding our customer diversification. As a reminder, Rest-of-Market revenue describes all revenue that is not from our two largest customers as measured by subscriber count. Turning to slide 10, you can see our balance sheet and cash flow highlights. Our balance sheet remains strong with $109 million of cash and cash equivalents as of quarter end. The sequential change in cash was mainly related to share repurchases, partially offset by positive free cash flow generated in the quarter. During the quarter, we generated free cash flow of $30.3 million, while we repurchased $43 million in stock. DSO at the end of Q1 was 62 compared to 79 in Q4 2025 and 63 in Q1 2025.

The sequential decrease was due to strong collections and timing of sales in the quarter. We expect DSO to trend back to the mid to high 70s going forward based on our customer mix. Inventory increased $3.4 million in the quarter, and our days inventory on hand fell to 80 days from 83 days last quarter. Our overall book-to-bill was 1.0x in Q1, with Rest-of-Market meaningfully above 1x. At the end of Q1, broadband backlog and deferred revenue reached a record $582.1 million, up 87% year-over-year. Of that, 60% is expected to convert to revenue within the next 12 months. This provides us with increased visibility for the remainder of 2026.

As shown on slide 11, we believe we have ample liquidity to support our capital allocation priorities with $109 million in cash, an $82 million undrawn credit facility, and expected net proceeds from the planned video sale and all-cash transaction valued at approximately $145 million before adjustments, taxes, and fees. Additionally, we continue to anticipate a meaningful reduction in our cash income taxes in 2026 due to the passage of the OBBA, as well as the impact of Section 174 R&D adjustments. All of this should substantially enhance our capital allocation flexibility. Even as we transform to a pure play broadband company, our capital priorities remain unchanged. Invest in organic growth and diversification, return capital to our shareholders, and pursue strategic M&A to further enhance growth and diversification in our broadband business.

Aligned with our first key priority, we expect to increase our inventory over the next several quarters to support our anticipated growth, including advancing memory purchases to secure supply for the remainder of the year. We are also investing in additional organic broadband opportunities in both our services business and fiber portfolio, as Nimrod mentioned in his prepared remarks. Under our current $200 million share repurchase program, to date, we have already repurchased $122 million of our outstanding shares, including $43 million in Q1 2026. As we stated previously, we expect to fund ongoing repurchases through strong free cash flow generation over the next several years, with a minimum goal of purchasing enough shares each year to offset any dilution from equity compensation awards.

In addition, the expected substantial cash infusion from the sale of video will also position us well to explore additional opportunities, including inorganic options, to further diversify and grow our broadband business. Turning to guidance on slide 12, we provide our continuing operations non-GAAP financial guidance for Q2 and full year 2026, reflecting our raised full year 2026 outlook. As a reminder, beginning last quarter, the company began providing guidance on an adjusted operating profit before tax basis rather than on an adjusted EBITDA basis. We continue to take a prudent and measured approach on both revenue and margins, considering factors such as current memory chip and other component pricing and supply dynamics and the situation in the Middle East. Built into our full year margin guidance is the current market pricing expected for memory.

Let me walk you through the guidance. For Q2 2026, we expect broadband to deliver revenue between $115 million and $125 million. Gross margins between 52% and 53% due to product mix. Operating profit between $23 million and $28 million, and EPS of between $0.15 and $0.19. As our guidance shows, we expect strong year-over-year broadband revenue growth in Q2 2026 and a better-than-expected first half of 2026. Our broadband gross margin guidance includes an estimated tariff impact of less than $1 million based on the currently announced tariff rates and exemptions. Operating profit includes stranded costs of approximately $2.3 million. For the full year 2026, we expect broadband to generate revenue between $475 million and $495 million, up $25 million or 5.4% from the midpoint of our prior guidance.

Gross margins between 50% and 51.5%, declining from Q1 levels due to elevated memory costs and new product ramps. Operating profit between $87 million and $101 million, and EPS between $0.57 and $0.67, up roughly $0.07 or 13.8% from the midpoint of our prior guidance. This full year broadband gross margin guidance includes an estimated tariff impact of approximately $2.3 million, while operating profit includes stranded costs of approximately $10 million. As mentioned last quarter, we continue to believe roughly 30% of these stranded costs are temporary and will be removed within one year following the closing of the video sale. Our non-GAAP tax rate for full year 2026 remains at 24.5% and reflects the higher expected U.S. mix of business in our continuing operations.

In summary, in the first quarter, we delivered results that significantly exceeded our expectations, with broadband revenue growing 43% year-over-year, driven by outstanding Rest-of-Market adoption. Our record broadband backlog and deferred revenue provide us with increased visibility, enabling us to raise our guidance for the year. As expected, we are now seeing tailwinds from both our Rest-of-Market customers as they ramp and our top two customers positioning us for strong growth this year. We're also excited about the pending sale of our video business. This transformational transaction will streamline our operations, strengthen our balance sheet, and allow us to focus entirely on our fast-growing broadband business. As a more focused organization, we'll be well-positioned to accelerate our growth and diversification across broadband, both in DOCSIS and fiber to the home, capitalizing on the growing TAM in these markets.

Thank you for your attention, and now I'll turn it back to Nimrod for closing remarks before we open up the call for questions.

Thanks, Walter. In closing, the first quarter was a strong start to the year. Our results clearly validate the success of our strategy and execution. Our broadband business is growing, our customer base is diversifying, and our platform is becoming increasingly attractive to operators as they modernize their networks. As we complete the sale of our video business and becoming a pure-play broadband company, we enter the rest of 2026 with strong momentum, growing visibility, and confidence in our long-term trajectory. That concludes our prepared remarks. Walter and I are now happy to take your questions.

Thank you. As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. We also ask that you please wait for your name and company to be announced before proceeding with your question. One moment while we compile the Q&A roster. The first question that we have today is coming from the line of Ryan Koontz of Needham & Company. Please go ahead.

Great. Thanks for the question, guys. Congrats on the great results. I have a particular question around Rest-of-Market. I mean, I think we all understand kind of the trajectory of your two large programs, but really sounds like you've seen some unlocking there of the Rest-of-Market. Maybe can you maybe step back and think about, you know, what you think are the triggers that start to unlock that for you this year for Rest-of-Market. Is it purely just DOCSIS 4 or are there kind of other elements here, maybe even beyond what Harmonic provides, that have been helpful to get this market moving? Thank you.

It's obviously DOCSIS 4, fiber, and any DOCSIS migration to a virtualized platform. We have started to win more, I would say in the last 18 months. It takes time to fully integrate and start ramping. We clearly see that in the revenue right now. We announced a couple of wins last year and prior to that, and you start seeing that showing up in the revenue. I think it's across the board and it's really a result of wins that we've seen previously.

Yeah, it's exciting, Nimrod. Thank you. Maybe one for Walter here. On the supply chain side, you know, I hear you on memory. Can you quantify what that memory impact is? It sounds like your second half margins will come down a bit. I assume that's on mix, other things like software sales as well that might weigh on that. Then with regards to other supply issues, are you more concerned about getting supply of kinda high-end, you know, TSMC built silicon than you were a few months ago, or you feel pretty comfortable there, Walter? Thank you.

Yeah. Hey, Ryan. A few things with regards to, you know, first of all the margin profile, and then I'll talk about the supply chain specifically. Correct, in terms of, you know, second half impact, similar to what we said in the prior earnings call, we see about a net impact of about $6 million related to memory. That's the net impact that is impacting the second half. The other factor on more the second half is with regards to product ramps. We're going through a number of product ramps, and as typical with any new products being introduced, there's a period of time before you get up to your targeted margins with regards to those specific products.

That explains the bridge in terms of the margin profile as we enter into the second half. In terms of other commodities from a supply chain perspective, you know, I think you've probably heard from others also in, in the market, you know, CPUs, PCBs, aluminum, they're all things that are coming up on the radar, and that's why we're being prudent with regards to our guidance as we look through the supply chain. Right now from a memory standpoint, we have most of the memory we need to fulfill the guidance that we've provided today. With regards to other products, you've probably heard with regards to switches and servers, which we sell as part of the cOS solution to Rest-of-Market customers that purchase those third-party products.

Some of those are in more of a constrained mode and create some caution in regards to availability of those products. Those are not material to us, but nonetheless, we do sell those through to our Rest-of-Market customers. The final point with regards to key silicon for us, you know, we continue and have pipelined aggressively our key silicon and therefore, that is not a concern at this point.

That's great. Appreciate it, guys. Nice job and nice quarter.

Thanks, Ryan.

Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question will be coming from the line of Simon Leopold of Raymond James. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Just a maybe a quick clarification, if we could. Could you give us the detailed contribution of the top two customers, the percent for each of those? I've got a follow-up.

Yeah. With regards to the top two are 58%. NRQ will provide the breakout. They both contributed very meaningful in the quarter.

Okay. If we look at the guidance here, we obviously know Q1, we have the guidance for Q2. This implies roughly no sequential growth in the remaining quarters. Roughly $122 million per quarter, if we consider what you just delivered, what you're suggesting for June, now obviously there could be variation, but essentially there's no seasonality. I'm trying to figure out whether to think of this as a year with some pull forward or whether to think of it as conservatism. If you could help us in terms of understanding the messaging when the outlook looks like it's essentially calling for flat through the year.

Yeah. Certainly, Simon. First of all, as I mentioned in the prepared remarks, we are being prudent, conservative in terms of the full year view of the business. Obviously, there's a lot going on out there in the macroeconomic environment. You've got the situation in the Middle East, you also have constraints that have appeared with regards to the AI supply chain that has impacts across broader organizations, including ourselves. You know, a lot has happened over the last 90 days. I presume a lot will happen over the next 90 days. We're being careful about, you know, making sure that our supply is tied up to the revenue that in fact we're committing. This has nothing to do with customer demand.

Our customer demand, as you heard today in terms of our Q1 and what we're expecting for the year, continues to be very strong. The momentum in Rest-of-Market in terms of deployments is all going better than expected, when we were here 90 days ago.

Walter, you wanna address the pooling, Q1, Q2?

Q1, Q2, I mean, in terms of the profiling of the business, I'd say that, you know, Q1 was strong. We had, you know, a number across a number of customers, orders that had dropped in for the quarter, as well on one particular deployment. The deployment was just going faster than anticipated. Therefore you're getting this kind of profiling where Q2, in terms of our guidance is sequentially flat. If you look at it year-over-year, it's still very strong growth to the profile.

Great. Thank you.

Okay, thanks Simon.

Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question will be coming from the line of Steven Frankel of Rosenblatt Securities. Please go ahead.

Good afternoon. Let me follow up on that last question, and try to get a little more. This unlocking of customers, is that coming also with kind of a faster ramp than you had been discussing with them further? Or do we just kind of got everybody off the starting line now, and those ramps will vary in how they play out over the next 12 to 18 months?

First of all, it varies by customer, subject to their ecosystem. It's going according to the plan. It's simply that we seeing that right now. There is no change or no acceleration relative to what we thought previously.

Okay. where should we think of fiber as a percentage of your business kinda exiting this year?

We're not gonna guide specifically on the fiber piece. We provided the metric today to provide some color in terms of fiber over the trailing four quarters, in terms of how much of that, you know, consists of our business, the 14% metric we provided. I mean, as Nimrod mentioned, we continue to build more on more customer momentum as we increase our wins in that particular area, and we expect it to continue to grow as a revenue dollar amount. It just all depends on the mix any given quarter, so it will move an ebb and flow depending on each quarter.

We expect that to grow. The other thing that we stated in the past is that one of the complexities here is how to count what is fiber versus not, as our converged platform has a lot of shared elements. What we talk about here is the direct fiber elements. It does not include elements that are shared across the two, like the nodes or even the compute that we put at the edge of the network. In any case, we expect that to continue growing.

Okay. Going back to the earlier comment about server availability, kind of what percent of your business is tied to customers that typically have that kind of pass-through revenue?

It's only in the Rest-of-Market environment. Out of that part, what would you say, Nimrod? Like, maybe half of them are buying through us.

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Thank you. I'll drop back in the queue.

Okay. Thanks, Steve.

Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question is coming from the line of George Notter of Wolfe Research. Please go ahead.

Hi, guys. Thanks very much. Just on the previous question, I think you said half of customers buy through you. Do you have a sense for how much revenue that would contribute? Is this 5%, 10% of revenue? What are we talking about? Just out of curiosity. I've got a follow-up. Thanks.

Yeah. It, George, it's not material. That would be, you know, much less than 10%, probably less than 5%.

Okay, great.

I think.

Go ahead.

By the way, George, I think the challenge on the one hand you can look at margin, but availability is also a key factor. If customer do not get their servers, then deployment gets delayed. It's crazy what's going out there, we work closely with our customers to make sure that we can help them if this is something that we provide or we follow carefully their supply situation. It's clearly a critical element for a deployment.

Got it. Okay. Makes a ton of sense. Hey, then just shifting gears a bit, you know, obviously the video business is gonna close soon. You talked about the potential to do M&A, could you just go back through, like, what sorts of opportunities you're looking for? You know, what makes sense for Harmonic? It's kind of interesting because, you know, one of your competitors, Vecima, also is narrowing down their business. They've also made similar comments. I guess maybe there's a broader question here just how do you see the consolidation of the space? Do you see it consolidating? What's the bigger thought? Thanks a lot.

I think we talked about that previously. Our priorities are to go through whatever will help our diversification, growth in fiber and the whole space of what we call intelligence. We feel fairly good in our market position in cable and DOCSIS. I think beyond that, it's really looking into specific opportunities that will also have high level of synergy with who we are and what we do. It's not just about, you know, bundling products or companies. It's really about creating something that will add value to our customers and to the platform that we bring to the market.

Okay. Okay, super. Thanks very much. I appreciate it.

If you would like to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone. One moment for the next question. The next question will be coming from the line of Tim Savageaux of Northland Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Hey, good afternoon, and congrats on the results. I guess the first question, you noted the very strong growth and Rest-of-Market in Q1. I guess my first question would be, as you look at your revised guidance, what sort of Rest-of-Market growth is implied in there relative to what I think is your kind of 30%+ baseline? I'll follow up.

Yeah. Hey, Tim. It's Walter. So what I would say without, you know, we're not going to guide necessarily each category of customer. We're off to a strong start in Q1 for Rest-of-Market. What we communicated last time was that, you know, we look at that 30% as kind of a multi-year target for us. Obviously, we've got wind to our back based on where we are today. I think some of the guide up is related to that, but I'm not going to specify with a specific growth range for Rest-of-Market on its own.

Okay, fair enough. Nimrod, I think somewhere along the line you talked about a global customer base. However, your business is pretty U.S.-centric or Americas-centric, I guess, at this point. I wonder what sort of opportunities you have there to grow internationally. I imagine your footprints of wins, and I don't know where the global cable number stands right now, but I imagine your footprint of wins is not 87% U.S. in terms of subscriber count, but maybe it is. Any comment there would be welcome and just the overall question about growing outside the Americas and what sort of opportunity.

Yeah. First of all.

Where could you take that number?

Yeah. One of the new customers we announced this quarter, KBRO, is in Taiwan. Even in Asia, we've got some pockets where we think what we provide is attractive. We had couple of wins on fiber and DOCSIS in Europe. We try to get the most of what we can get outside of the U.S. as well as in Latin America.

Clearly the cable is fairly big in North America, and that will remain a big area of focus for us, the top two customers and the longer tail of other customers as we go through the multiple cycles and stages of upgrading these networks with 4.0 and later on, going into densifying these networks, overlaying our intelligence services, and going through the fiber optionality, the Fiber-on-Demand, which is also kind of an area where we see a lot of traction. We try to get fair share of what we can see outside of North America, but North America will certainly stay a big part of our revenue.

Okay. Thanks very much.

Thank you. That concludes today's Q&A session. I would like to go ahead and turn the call over to Nimrod for closing remarks. Please go ahead.

We appreciate your continued interest in Harmonic and look forward to updating you on our progress in the future. Thank you all for joining the call. Have a good day.

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