Q1 2027 NetScout Systems Inc Earnings Call

August 6, 2026

Speaker #1: Please stand by. Your program is about to begin. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to NetScout's first quarter fiscal year 2027 financial results conference call.

Operator: Please stand by. Your program is about to begin. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to NetScout's Q1 Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all parties are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the management team's prepared remarks. As a reminder, this call is being recorded. If you require operator assistance at any time, please press star zero. I would now like to turn the call over to Scott Dressel, NetScout's VP of Corporate Finance. Scott, please go ahead.

Speaker #1: At this time, all parties are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the management team's prepared remarks. As a reminder, this call is being recorded.

Speaker #1: If you require operator assistance at any time, please press stars zero. I would now like to turn the call over to Scott Dressel, NetScout's VP of Corporate Finance.

Speaker #1: Scott, please go ahead.

Speaker #2: Thank you. Operator, good morning, everyone. Welcome to NetScout's first quarter fiscal year 2027 conference call for the period ended June 30, 2026. Joining me today are Anil Singhal, NetScout's president and chief executive officer; and Tony Piazza, NetScout's executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Scott Dressel: Thank you, operator, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to NetScout's Q1 of FY 2027 conference call for the period ended 30 June 2026. Joining me today are Anil Singhal, NetScout's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Tony Piazza, NetScout's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Please note that the slide presentation accompanies our prepared remarks. You can advance the slides in the webcast viewer to follow our commentary. Both the slides and the prepared remarks can be accessed in multiple areas within the investor relations section of our website at www.netscout.com, including the IR landing page and the quarterly results page. As discussed in detail on slide number three, today's conference call will include certain forward-looking statements about NetScout's views on expected results of future performance and business strategy.

Speaker #2: Please note that the five presentation accompanies our prepared remarks. You can advance the slides on the webcast viewer to follow our commentary. Both the slides and the prepared remarks can be accessed in multiple areas within the investor relations section of our website at www.netskout.com, including the IR landing page and the quarterly results page.

Scott Dressel: Both the slides and the prepared remarks can be accessed in multiple areas within the investor relations section of our website at www.netscout.com, including the IR landing page and the quarterly results page. As discussed in detail on slide number three, today's conference call will include certain forward-looking statements about NetScout's views on expected results of future performance and business strategy.

Speaker #2: As discussed in detail on slide number three, today's conference call will include certain forward-looking statements about NetScout's views on expected results, future performance, and business strategy.

Speaker #2: These statements speak only as of today's date and involve risks uncertainties and assumptions that may cause actual results to differ materially including but not limited to those described in the company's filings release securities exchange commission including our annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.

Scott Dressel: These statements speak only as of today's date and involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that may cause actual results to differ materially, including but not limited to those described in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. As discussed in detail on slide number four, today's conference call will also include discussion of certain non-GAAP financial measures that the company believes to be useful for investors. While this slide presentation includes both GAAP and non-GAAP results, other than revenue and balance sheet information, which are presented in accordance with GAAP, we will focus our discussion on non-GAAP financial information. These measures should not be considered in isolation from or as a substitute for financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Speaker #2: As discussed in detail on slide number four, today's conference call will also include discussion of certain non-GAAP financial measures that the company believes to be useful for investors.

Scott Dressel: As discussed in detail on slide number four, today's conference call will also include discussion of certain non-GAAP financial measures that the company believes to be useful for investors. While this slide presentation includes both GAAP and non-GAAP results, other than revenue and balance sheet information, which are presented in accordance with GAAP, we will focus our discussion on non-GAAP financial information.

Speaker #2: While this slide presentation includes both GAAP and non-GAAP results, other than revenue and balance sheet information, which are presented in accordance with GAAP, we will focus our discussion on non-GAAP financial information.

Speaker #2: These measures should not be considered in isolation from or as a substitute for financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. Reconciliations of all non-GAAP metrics to the nearest GAAP measures are provided in the appendix of the slide presentation in today's financial results press release and on our website.

Scott Dressel: These measures should not be considered in isolation from or as a substitute for financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. Reconciliations of all non-GAAP metrics to the nearest GAAP measures are provided in the appendix of the slide presentation, in today's financial results press release, and on our website. I will now turn the call over to Anil for his prepared remarks. Anil?

Scott Dressel: Reconciliations of all non-GAAP metrics to the nearest GAAP measures are provided in the appendix of the slide presentation, in today's financial results press release, and on our website. I will now turn the call over to Anil for his prepared remarks. Anil?

Speaker #2: I will now turn the call over to Anil for his prepared remarks. Anil?

Speaker #3: Thank you, Scott, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today. At the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, we delivered strong top and bottom line results and enterprises and service providers continued to rely on NetScout for mission-critical high-fidelity visibility across increasingly complex digital environments.

Anil Singhal: Thank you, Scott, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today. In Q1 of FY 2027, we delivered strong top and bottom-line results as enterprises and service providers continue to rely on NetScout for mission-critical, high-fidelity visibility across increasingly complex digital environments. We executed well against our strategic priorities and believe we are in a well position to achieve our FY 2027 objectives of investing in innovation, driving profitable growth, expanding margins, and generating solid free cash flow. Service assurance performed well, reflecting in part government-related demand, while cybersecurity delivered results consistent with the prior year. Overall, our Q1 results reflect disciplined execution and keep us on track with our full-year outlook. Our investment innovation continued to yield differentiated patented technologies that generate compact, high-fidelity, AI-ready Smart Data.

Speaker #3: We executed well against our strategic priorities and believe we are in a well-position to achieve our fiscal 2027 objectives of investing in innovation, driving profitable growth, expanding margins, and generating solid free cash flow.

Speaker #3: Service assurance performed well reflecting in part government-related demand while cybersecurity delivered results consistent with the prior year. Overall, our first quarter results reflect disciplined execution and keep us on track with our full year outlook.

Anil Singhal: Service assurance performed well, reflecting in part government-related demand, while cybersecurity delivered results consistent with the prior year. Overall, our Q1 results reflect disciplined execution and keep us on track with our full-year outlook. Our investment innovation continued to yield differentiated patented technologies that generate compact, high-fidelity, AI-ready Smart Data.

Speaker #3: Our investment innovation continued to yield differentiated patented technologies that generate compact high-fidelity AI-ready smart data. These capabilities provide customers with a trusted data foundation for advanced analytics, automation, and AI-enabled decision-making across observability, AIOps, service assurance, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions.

Anil Singhal: These capabilities provide customers with a trusted data foundation for advanced analytics, automation, and AI-enabled decision-making across observability, AIOps, service assurance, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions. In June, we reached an important milestone with the granting of our 750th patent, demonstrating the strength of our R&D engine and the durability of our technology moat around our Smart Data platform and AI-enabled applications. Digital complexity and fragmented visibility increase the need for trusted data, stronger resilience, and more efficient operations. We believe our portfolio helps customers manage that complexity, reduce risk, and improve efficiency, all of which reinforce the long-term growth potential of our business. With that context, let me turn to slide six for a brief review of our fiscal year 2027 financial performance for the period ending June 30, 2026.

Speaker #3: In June, we reached an important milestone with the granting of our $750 patent demonstrating the strength of our R&D engine and the durability of our technology mode around our smart data platform and AI-enabled applications.

Speaker #3: Digital complexity and fragmented visibility increase the need for trusted data stronger resilience and more efficient operations. We believe our portfolio helps customers manage that complexity reduce risk and improve efficiency all of which reinforce the long-term growth potential of our business.

Anil Singhal: Digital complexity and fragmented visibility increase the need for trusted data, stronger resilience, and more efficient operations. We believe our portfolio helps customers manage that complexity, reduce risk, and improve efficiency, all of which reinforce the long-term growth potential of our business. With that context, let me turn to slide six for a brief review of our fiscal year 2027 financial performance for the period ending June 30, 2026.

Speaker #3: With that context, let me turn to slide six for a brief review of our fiscal year 2010-27 financial performance for the period ending June 30, 2026.

Speaker #3: For the first quarter, total revenue increased by 13% to $210 million compared with $187 million for the same period last year. We expanded both our gross and operating margins nicely in the quarter.

Anil Singhal: For Q1, total revenue increased by 13% to $210 million, compared with $187 million for the same period last year. We expanded both our gross and operating margins nicely in the quarter. Diluted earnings per share was $0.52, compared with $0.34 in the same period last year. Now let's turn to slide seven for some perspective on our business and some market insights. Starting with a review of our service assurance offerings. Revenue grew approximately 20% year over year, benefiting in part from government-related orders, including orders that were received earlier than anticipated as the customer advanced their deployment plans. Growth also reflected sales of our newest innovation, including our Omnis Sensor and Omnis Streamer products, which make our high-fidelity metadata available in observability, cybersecurity, and AIOps platform across our partner ecosystem.

Speaker #3: Diluted earnings per share was 52 cents compared with 34 cents in the same period last year. Now let's turn to slide seven for some perspective on our business and some market insights.

Speaker #3: Starting with the review of our service assurance offerings. Revenue grew approximately 20% year over year benefiting in part from a government-related order from government-related orders including orders that were received earlier than advanced their deployment plans.

Anil Singhal: Revenue grew approximately 20% year over year, benefiting in part from government-related orders, including orders that were received earlier than anticipated as the customer advanced their deployment plans. Growth also reflected sales of our newest innovation, including our Omnis Sensor and Omnis Streamer products, which make our high-fidelity metadata available in observability, cybersecurity, and AIOps platform across our partner ecosystem.

Speaker #3: Growth also reflected sales of our newest innovation including our OmniSensor and Streamer products which make our high-fidelity metadata available in observability cybersecurity and AIOps platform across our partner ecosystem.

Speaker #3: This enables our customer to leverage the real-time visibility we provide to improve automated workflows and critical investigations across the business. Enterprise customers are turning to our service assurance solutions to close visibility gaps created by hybrid clouds, remote work, automation, and AI workloads.

Anil Singhal: This enables our customer to leverage the real-time visibility we provide to improve automated workflows and critical investigations across the business. Enterprise customers are turning to our service assurance solutions to close visibility gaps created by hybrid clouds, remote work, automation, and AI workloads. These environments are inherently complex, with more traffic paths, potential points of failure, and operational silos across network application, observability, and security teams. With greater exposure to downtime, the consequences can be significant from an operational, legal, and financial standpoint. Our service provider customer remains focused on reducing network cost and complexity. They are also working to improve automation across fixed mobile and edge environments. NetScout 5G Observability Solutions gives customers end-to-end visibility for standalone 5G networks. They also support mission-critical applications and emerging use cases, including fixed wireless access, network slicing, and immersive services. Carrier spending remains disciplined.

Speaker #3: These environments are inherently complex with more traffic paths potential points of failure and operational silos across network application observability and security teams. With greater exposure to downtime the consequences can be significant from operational, legal, and financial standpoint.

Anil Singhal: With greater exposure to downtime, the consequences can be significant from an operational, legal, and financial standpoint. Our service provider customer remains focused on reducing network cost and complexity. They are also working to improve automation across fixed mobile and edge environments. NetScout 5G Observability Solutions gives customers end-to-end visibility for standalone 5G networks. They also support mission-critical applications and emerging use cases, including fixed wireless access, network slicing, and immersive services. Carrier spending remains disciplined.

Speaker #3: Our service provider customer remains focused on reducing network cost and complexity. They are also working to improve automation across fixed mobile and edge environments.

Speaker #3: NetScout 5G observability solutions give customers end-to-end visibility for standalone 5G networks. They also support mission-critical applications and emerging use cases, including fixed wireless access, network slicing, and immersive services.

Speaker #3: Carrier spending remains disciplined. Even so, we continue to see opportunities for our solutions to help customers improve efficiency, and monetize next-generation network investments. Turning to cybersecurity, the revenue increased approximately 1% year over year.

Anil Singhal: Even so, we continue to see opportunities for our solutions to help customers improve efficiency and monetize next-generation network investments. Turning to cybersecurity, revenue increased approximately 1% year over year. We achieved that growth despite a difficult comparison to prior year period, which grew in the high teens due to the timing of some large projects. Both our enterprise and carrier provider customers verticals grew modestly in the quarter, and we continue to view cybersecurity as an important long-term growth opportunity for NetScout. Our previously disclosed May acquisition of DigiCert DDoS attack protection business assets, together with our recently announced capacity expansion, reflects a deliberate strategy to scale Arbor Cloud with greater control, efficiency, and speed. By bringing the platform backend infrastructure fully in-house, we have created the operational and architectural foundation to invest more quickly and efficiently in capacity.

Speaker #3: We achieved that growth despite a difficult comparison to prior year period which grew in the high teams due to the timing of some large projects.

Speaker #3: Both our enterprise and carrier provider customer verticals grew modestly in the quarter, and we continue to view cybersecurity as an important long-term growth opportunity for NetScout.

Speaker #3: Our previously disclosed May acquisition of Digisense DDoS attack protection business assets together with our recently announced capacity expansion reflected deliberate strategy to scale Harbor Cloud with greater control efficiency and speed.

Anil Singhal: Our previously disclosed May acquisition of DigiCert DDoS attack protection business assets, together with our recently announced capacity expansion, reflects a deliberate strategy to scale Arbor Cloud with greater control, efficiency, and speed. By bringing the platform backend infrastructure fully in-house, we have created the operational and architectural foundation to invest more quickly and efficiently in capacity.

Speaker #3: By bringing the platform back and infrastructure fully in-house, we have created the operational and architectural foundation to invest more quickly and efficiently in capacity.

Speaker #3: That work culminated in the doubling of our mitigation capability to 33 terabits per second. It also gives us higher tighter alignment between infrastructure and threat intelligence, faster innovation cycles, and improved margin potential through immediately accretive recurring revenues.

Anil Singhal: That work culminated in the doubling of our mitigation capability to 33 terabits per second. It also gives us tighter alignment between infrastructure and threat intelligence, faster innovation cycles, and improved margin potential through immediately accretive recurring revenues. These actions strengthen Arbor Cloud as a more resilient, vertically integrated cloud platform. They also position NetScout to help customers respond to the rapidly escalating scale and complexity of attacks while delivering consistent high-performance protection for mission-critical, always-on digital environment. Turning to AI. We believe it is creating a long-term growth opportunity across our portfolio. It's also bringing service assurance and cybersecurity closer together as customers look for solutions that can automate workflows, support AI-enabled applications, and the large volumes of data across hybrid environments. These trends increase the need for unused visibility, observability, and cybersecurity. They also reinforce the value of NetScout Smart Data.

Speaker #3: These actions strengthen Harbor Cloud as more resilient, vertically integrated cloud platform. They also position NetScout to help customers respond to the rapidly escalating scale and complexity of attacks while delivering consistent high-performance protection for mission-critical always-on digital environment.

Speaker #3: Turning to AI, we believe it is creating a long-term growth opportunity across our portfolio. It also bringing service assurance cybersecurity closer together as customer look for solution that can automate workflows support AI-enabled application and large and a large volumes of data across hybrid environments.

Anil Singhal: Turning to AI. We believe it is creating a long-term growth opportunity across our portfolio. It's also bringing service assurance and cybersecurity closer together as customers look for solutions that can automate workflows, support AI-enabled applications, and the large volumes of data across hybrid environments. These trends increase the need for unused visibility, observability, and cybersecurity. They also reinforce the value of NetScout Smart Data.

Speaker #3: These trends increase the need for unused visibility observability and cybersecurity. They also reinforce the value of NetScout smart data. With packet level precision, automation, and analytics, our AI-ready data smart data helps customers find root cause analysis root causes faster improve efficiency strengthen cyber resilience and connect more effectively with broader observability security operations and emerging agentic AI frameworks.

Anil Singhal: With packet-level precision, automation, and analytics, our AI-ready Smart Data helps customers find root causes faster, improve efficiency, strengthen cyber resilience, and connect more effectively with broader observability, security operations, and emerging agentic AI frameworks. Turning to customer base. We saw continued demand across both service assurance and cybersecurity. In the quarter, we secured new customers and repeat business from existing customers who are investing in new solution upgrades and maintenance services. These wins demonstrate the continued relevance of our portfolio, the depth of our customer relationships, and the opportunity to expand across our installed base. Highlights from Q1 included the following. First, we completed multiple government agency-related deals in service assurance and cybersecurity with an aggregate value in the low eight digits that included our OmniSensor, OmniStreamer, and Cyber Intelligence Platform solutions. Another agency selected NetScout to support modernization and zero-trust security at the edge.

Speaker #3: Turning to customer wins, we saw continued demand across both service assurance and cybersecurity. In the quarter, we secured new customers and repeat business from existing customers for investing in new solution upgrades and maintenance services.

Speaker #3: These wins demonstrate the continued relevance of our portfolio the depth of our customer relationship and the opportunity to expand across our install base. Highlights from the first quarter included the following.

Anil Singhal: These wins demonstrate the continued relevance of our portfolio, the depth of our customer relationships, and the opportunity to expand across our installed base. Highlights from Q1 included the following. First, we completed multiple government agency-related deals in service assurance and cybersecurity with an aggregate value in the low eight digits that included our OmniSensor, OmniStreamer, and Cyber Intelligence Platform solutions. Another agency selected NetScout to support modernization and zero-trust security at the edge.

Speaker #3: First, we completed multiple government agency related deals in service assurance and cybersecurity with an aggregate value in the low eight digits that include included our OmniSensor, OmniStreamer, and Cyber Intelligence Solutions.

Speaker #3: Another agency selected NetScout to support modernization and zero trust security at the edge. Second, we signed a multi-million dollar agreement with a longstanding international service provider customer.

Anil Singhal: Second, we signed a multimillion-dollar agreement with a long-standing international service provider customer. That customer expanded its NetScout cybersecurity portfolio to strengthen DDoS attack protection in response to a heightened threat environment. Third, we secured a seven-figure deal with a US financial institution that included our Omnis KlearSight sensor. This solution addresses visibility challenges in large multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments. The customer selected NetScout for our ability to deliver deep, actionable, real-time insight into system performance, health, and cost drivers for customer-facing banking application in virtual environments. With that, let's move on to slide number eight and review our outlook. With a solid start to the fiscal year, we remain focused on profitable growth, health, free cash flow generation, and long-term shareholder value. We are reaffirming our full fiscal year 2027 outlook. Customers remain disciplined in their overall spending. We are managing the business with that environment in mind.

Speaker #3: The customer expanded his NetScout cybersecurity portfolio to strengthen DDoS attack protection in response to a heightened threat environment. Third, we secured a seven-figure deal with a U.S. financial institution that included our Omnis ClearStack Center sensor.

Speaker #3: This solution addresses visibility challenges in large multi-cluster Kubernetes deployment Kubernetes deployments. The customer selected NetScout for our ability to deliver deep actionable real-time insight into system performance health and cost drivers for customer-facing banking application in virtual environment.

Anil Singhal: The customer selected NetScout for our ability to deliver deep, actionable, real-time insight into system performance, health, and cost drivers for customer-facing banking application in virtual environments. With that, let's move on to slide number eight and review our outlook. With a solid start to the fiscal year, we remain focused on profitable growth, health, free cash flow generation, and long-term shareholder value. We are reaffirming our full fiscal year 2027 outlook. Customers remain disciplined in their overall spending. We are managing the business with that environment in mind.

Speaker #3: With that, let's move on to slide number eight and review our outcome. With a solid start to the fiscal year, we remain focused on profitable growth, health-free cash flow generation, and long-term shareholder value and we are reaffirming our full fiscal year 26 27 outlook.

Speaker #3: Customers remain disciplined in their overall spending and we are managing the business with that environment in mind. The same time, we see meaningful long-term opportunities in AIOps observability, service assurance, and cybersecurity and DDoS attack protection.

Anil Singhal: At the same time, we see meaningful long-term opportunities in AIOps, observability, service assurance, and cybersecurity and DDoS attack protection. We'll continue to invest in innovation with a focus on advanced cybersecurity capabilities, Adaptive DDoS Protection, and using our data and intelligence to power AI-driven workflows in observability and service assurance, all aimed at enhancing resilience and service reliability for our customers. We'll also maintain disciplined cost management and a balanced approach to capital allocation to support attractive returns for our shareholders. Finally, we are looking forward to hosting customers and partners at our annual ENGAGE technology and user summit in Texas in October. This year's theme is "Moving from Proactive to Predictive," and reflects an important shift in our market. Customers want to move beyond monitoring. They want to detect issues earlier, predict outcomes faster and more accurately, explain what's happening, and automate more decisions.

Speaker #3: We'll continue to invest in innovation with a focus on advanced cybersecurity capabilities adaptive DDoS protection and using our data and intelligence to power AI-driven workflows in observability and service assurance all aimed at enhancing resilience and service reliability for our customers.

Speaker #3: We'll also maintain disciplined cost management and a balanced approach to capital allocation to support attractive returns for our shareholders. Finally, we are looking forward to hosting customers and partners of our at our annual engage technology and user summit in Texas in October.

Anil Singhal: We'll also maintain disciplined cost management and a balanced approach to capital allocation to support attractive returns for our shareholders. Finally, we are looking forward to hosting customers and partners at our annual ENGAGE technology and user summit in Texas in October. This year's theme is "Moving from Proactive to Predictive," and reflects an important shift in our market. Customers want to move beyond monitoring. They want to detect issues earlier, predict outcomes faster and more accurately, explain what's happening, and automate more decisions.

Speaker #3: This year's theme is moving from proactive to protective. It reflects an important shift in our markets. Customers want to move beyond monitoring. They want to detect issues.

Speaker #3: Earlier, predict outcomes faster and more accurately, explain what's happening, and automate more decisions. Engage 2026 will demonstrate how NetScout AI-ready smart data provides a trusted data foundation for that shift.

Anil Singhal: ENGAGE 2026 will demonstrate how NetScout AI-ready Smart Data provides a trusted data foundation for that shift. That includes support for observability, cybersecurity, AIOps, and emerging agentic operations, while also helping customers control costs and keep their data secure and on premises. We will feature our newest innovation, including nGenius Copilot, which gives user access to Smart Data in natural language. We will also showcase evidence-driven cybersecurity incident response and AI-powered Adaptive DDoS Protection. With that, I will turn the call over to Tony for a review of our financial performance and our outlook.

Speaker #3: That includes support for observability, cybersecurity, AIOps, and emerging agentic operation while also helping customers control cost and keep their data secure and on-premises. We'll feature our newest innovation including Ingenious Copilot, which gives user access to smart data in natural language.

Anil Singhal: We will feature our newest innovation, including nGenius Copilot, which gives user access to Smart Data in natural language. We will also showcase evidence-driven cybersecurity incident response and AI-powered Adaptive DDoS Protection. With that, I will turn the call over to Tony for a review of our financial performance and our outlook.

Speaker #3: We'll also showcase evidence-driven cybersecurity incident response and AI-powered adaptive DDoS attack protection. With that, I will turn the call over to Tony for a review of our financial performance and our outlook.

Speaker #1: Thank you, Neil, and good morning everyone. We appreciate you joining us. I'll start by walking you through the key financial metrics for our first quarter of fiscal year 2027.

Anthony Piazza: Thank you, Anil, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us. I will start by walking you through the key financial metrics for our first quarter of fiscal year 2027. After that, I will share some additional commentary on our second quarter and full fiscal year 2027 financial outlook. As a reminder, other than revenue and balance sheet information, which are on a GAAP basis, this review focuses on our non-GAAP results. All reconciliations with our GAAP results appear in the presentation appendix. I will note the nature of any such comparisons accordingly. Also, all comparisons are on a year-over-year basis unless otherwise noted. Slide number 10 details the results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027. Total revenue was $210.4 million, up 12.7% from the same period last fiscal year.

Tony Piazza: Thank you, Anil, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us. I will start by walking you through the key financial metrics for our first quarter of fiscal year 2027. After that, I will share some additional commentary on our second quarter and full fiscal year 2027 financial outlook. As a reminder, other than revenue and balance sheet information, which are on a GAAP basis, this review focuses on our non-GAAP results.

Speaker #1: After that, I'll share some additional commentary on our second quarter and full fiscal year 2027 financial outlook. As a reminder, other than revenue and balance sheet information, which are on a gap basis, this review focuses on our non-gap results.

Speaker #1: I'll reconciliations with our gap results appear in the presentation appendix. I will note the nature of any such comparisons accordingly. Also, all comparisons on a year-over-year basis unless otherwise noted.

Tony Piazza: All reconciliations with our GAAP results appear in the presentation appendix. I will note the nature of any such comparisons accordingly. Also, all comparisons are on a year-over-year basis unless otherwise noted. Slide number 10 details the results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027. Total revenue was $210.4 million, up 12.7% from the same period last fiscal year.

Speaker #1: Slide number 10 details the results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027. Total revenue was 210.4 million dollars up 12.7% from the same period last fiscal year.

Speaker #1: The quarter benefited in part from government-related orders including some that were awarded ahead of our expectations positively impacting revenue. Product revenue totaled 86 million dollars up 17.8% compared with the same period same prior year period.

Anthony Piazza: The quarter benefited in part from government-related orders, including some that were awarded ahead of our expectations, positively impacting revenue. Product revenue totaled $86 million, up 17.8% compared with the same prior year period. Service revenue was $124.4 million, an increase of 9.4% year over year, benefiting from revenue contributed by the recently acquired Cloud DDoS business and from favorable timing of certain service renewal orders compared to the prior year. For fiscal year 2027, we continue to expect service revenue to grow in the low single digits. We ended the first quarter with total product backlog of approximately $33 million, which included $28 million of fulfillable backlog. In the first quarter, the gross profit margin increased 190 basis points to 80.6%, reflecting higher product gross margin due to favorable product mix.

Tony Piazza: The quarter benefited in part from government-related orders, including some that were awarded ahead of our expectations, positively impacting revenue. Product revenue totaled $86 million, up 17.8% compared with the same prior year period. Service revenue was $124.4 million, an increase of 9.4% year over year, benefiting from revenue contributed by the recently acquired Cloud DDoS business and from favorable timing of certain service renewal orders compared to the prior year.

Speaker #1: Service revenue was 124.4 million dollars an increase of 9.4% year-over-year benefiting from revenue contributed by the recently acquired cloud DDoS business and from favorable timing of certain service renewal orders compared to this the prior prior year.

Speaker #1: For fiscal year 2027, we continue to expect service revenue to grow in the low single digits. We ended the first quarter with total product backlog of approximately 33 million dollars which included 28 million dollars of fulfillable backlog.

Tony Piazza: For fiscal year 2027, we continue to expect service revenue to grow in the low single digits. We ended the first quarter with total product backlog of approximately $33 million, which included $28 million of fulfillable backlog. In the first quarter, the gross profit margin increased 190 basis points to 80.6%, reflecting higher product gross margin due to favorable product mix.

Speaker #1: In the first quarter, the gross profit margin increased 190 basis points to 80.6%, reflecting higher product gross margin due to favorable product mix. Quarterly operating expenses were $126 million, up 4.6% year-over-year, primarily reflecting overhead costs associated with the recent DDoS acquisition, higher sales commissions on increased revenue, and the timing of variable incentive compensation expense.

Anthony Piazza: Quarterly operating expenses were $126 million, up 4.6% year over year, primarily reflecting overhead costs associated with the recent DDoS acquisition, higher sales commissions on increased revenue, and the timing of variable incentive compensation expense. The operating margin improved 660 basis points to 20.8%, reflecting revenue growth, favorable product mix, and disciplined expense management. We delivered net income of $38.6 million, or diluted earnings per share of $0.52, an increase over the year ago quarter net income of $24.7 million, or $0.34 per diluted share. Let's turn to slide 11, where I will walk you through the key revenue trends by product lines and customer verticals. For the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, service assurance revenue increased by 19.7%, and cybersecurity revenue grew by 0.6%. During the same period, service assurance accounted for 67% of total revenue, and cybersecurity accounted for the remaining 33%.

Tony Piazza: Quarterly operating expenses were $126 million, up 4.6% year over year, primarily reflecting overhead costs associated with the recent DDoS acquisition, higher sales commissions on increased revenue, and the timing of variable incentive compensation expense. The operating margin improved 660 basis points to 20.8%, reflecting revenue growth, favorable product mix, and disciplined expense management.

Speaker #1: The operating margin improved 660 basis points to 20.8% reflecting revenue growth favorable product mix and disciplined expense management. We delivered net income of 38.6 million dollars or diluted earnings per share of 52 cents an increase over the year ago quarter net income of 24.7 million dollars or 34 cents per diluted share.

Tony Piazza: We delivered net income of $38.6 million, or diluted earnings per share of $0.52, an increase over the year ago quarter net income of $24.7 million, or $0.34 per diluted share. Let's turn to slide 11, where I will walk you through the key revenue trends by product lines and customer verticals. For the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, service assurance revenue increased by 19.7%, and cybersecurity revenue grew by 0.6%. During the same period, service assurance accounted for 67% of total revenue, and cybersecurity accounted for the remaining 33%.

Speaker #1: Let's turn to slide 11 where I will walk you through the key revenue trends by product lines and customer verticals. For the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, service assurance revenue increased by 19.7% and cybersecurity revenue grew by 0.6%.

Speaker #1: During the same period, service assurance accounted for 67% of total revenue and cybersecurity accounted for the remaining 33%. As noted earlier, service assurance benefited in part from government-related orders including some received earlier than expected.

Anthony Piazza: As noted earlier, service assurance benefited in part from government-related orders, including some received earlier than expected. While cybersecurity faced a more difficult comparison as the same quarter in the prior year grew approximately 18%. Turning to our customer verticals. For Q1, enterprise revenue grew by 19.1%, and service provider revenue grew by 3.3%. During the same period, enterprise accounted for 63% of our total revenue, and service provider accounted for the remaining 37%. Additionally, no customer accounted for more than 10% of our revenue for Q1 of fiscal year 2027. Turning to slide 12. For Q1 of fiscal year 2027, the US represented 59% of revenue, and international represented 41% of revenue. Slide 13 shows key balance sheet items and free cash flow for the period.

Tony Piazza: As noted earlier, service assurance benefited in part from government-related orders, including some received earlier than expected. While cybersecurity faced a more difficult comparison as the same quarter in the prior year grew approximately 18%. Turning to our customer verticals. For Q1, enterprise revenue grew by 19.1%, and service provider revenue grew by 3.3%.

Speaker #1: While cybersecurity faced a more difficult comparison as the same quarter in the prior year grew approximately 18%. Turning to our customer verticals, for the first quarter, enterprise revenue grew by 19.1% and service provider revenue grew by 3.3%.

Speaker #1: During the same period, enterprise accounted for 63% of our total revenue and service provider accounted for the remaining 37%. Additionally, no customer accounted for more than 10% of our revenue for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027.

Tony Piazza: During the same period, enterprise accounted for 63% of our total revenue, and service provider accounted for the remaining 37%. Additionally, no customer accounted for more than 10% of our revenue for Q1 of fiscal year 2027. Turning to slide 12. For Q1 of fiscal year 2027, the US represented 59% of revenue, and international represented 41% of revenue. Slide 13 shows key balance sheet items and free cash flow for the period.

Speaker #1: Turning to slide 12, for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, the US represented 59% of revenue and international represented 41% of revenue. Slide 13 shows key balance sheet items and free cash flow for the period.

Speaker #1: We ended the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 with 668.5 million dollars in cash cash equivalents and short and long-term marketable securities compared with 705.1 million dollars at the end of fiscal year 2026.

Anthony Piazza: We ended Q1 of fiscal year 2027 with $668.5 million in cash equivalents, and short and long-term marketable securities, compared with $705.1 million at the end of fiscal year 2026. Free cash flow was $44.3 million for Q1. The reduction in cash primarily reflects the 1 May acquisition of the DDoS assets of DigiCert, Inc., which we previously disclosed and discussed as a subsequent event on our Q4 FY26 earnings call. We did not repurchase shares during Q1 and remain committed to our share repurchase program. Let's move to slide 14 for our fiscal year 2027 outlook and some additional color on Q2. As Anil noted earlier, we are reaffirming our fiscal year 2027 outlook provided last quarter. We continue to expect year-over-year growth in both revenue and earnings with the following assumptions for the full fiscal year.

Tony Piazza: We ended Q1 of fiscal year 2027 with $668.5 million in cash equivalents, and short and long-term marketable securities, compared with $705.1 million at the end of fiscal year 2026. Free cash flow was $44.3 million for Q1. The reduction in cash primarily reflects the 1 May acquisition of the DDoS assets of DigiCert, Inc., which we previously disclosed and discussed as a subsequent event on our Q4 FY26 earnings call.

Speaker #1: Free cash flow was 44.3 million dollars for the first quarter. The reduction in cash primarily reflects the May 1st acquisition of the DDoS assets of DigiCert Inc which we previously disclosed and discussed as a subsequent event on our Q4 FY26 earnings call.

Speaker #1: We did not repurchase shares during the first quarter and remain committed to our share repurchase program. Let's move to slide 14 for for our fiscal year 2027 outlook and some additional color on the second quarter.

Tony Piazza: We did not repurchase shares during Q1 and remain committed to our share repurchase program. Let's move to slide 14 for our fiscal year 2027 outlook and some additional color on Q2. As Anil noted earlier, we are reaffirming our fiscal year 2027 outlook provided last quarter. We continue to expect year-over-year growth in both revenue and earnings with the following assumptions for the full fiscal year.

Speaker #1: As Anil noted earlier, we are reaffirming our fiscal year 2027 outlook provided last quarter. We continue to expect year-over-year growth in both revenue and earnings, with the following assumptions for the full fiscal year.

Speaker #1: Revenue in the range of 885 to 915 million dollars. Non-gap EPS in the range of 2 dollars and 65 cents to 2 dollars and 80 cents.

Anthony Piazza: Revenue in the range of $885 to $915 million. non-GAAP EPS in the range of $2.65 to $2.80. A non-GAAP effective tax rate of approximately 20%, and weighted average diluted shares outstanding of approximately 74 to 75 million. For Q2, we expect revenue to be broadly consistent with the prior year period, reflecting the previously mentioned acceleration of orders into Q1 and a strong comparison with the prior year's Q2, when revenue grew nearly 15% and benefited from orders accelerated from Q3. As a result, we expect H1 revenue growth in the mid-single digits. We expect Q2 EPS to grow in the high single digits, driven in part by our ENGAGE conference shifting from Q2 in the prior year to Q3 this fiscal year. In summary, we delivered a strong Q1 and solid start to our fiscal year.

Tony Piazza: Revenue in the range of $885 to $915 million. non-GAAP EPS in the range of $2.65 to $2.80. A non-GAAP effective tax rate of approximately 20%, and weighted average diluted shares outstanding of approximately 74 to 75 million. For Q2, we expect revenue to be broadly consistent with the prior year period, reflecting the previously mentioned acceleration of orders into Q1 and a strong comparison with the prior year's Q2, when revenue grew nearly 15% and benefited from orders accelerated from Q3.

Speaker #1: A non-gap effective tax rate of approximately 20% and weighted average diluted shares outstanding of approximately 74 to 75 million. For the second quarter, we expect revenue to broadly consistent with the prior year period reflecting the previously mentioned acceleration of orders into Q1 and a strong comparison with the prior year's second quarter when revenue grew nearly 15% and benefited from orders accelerated from the third quarter.

Speaker #1: As a result, we expect first half revenue growth in the mid single digits. We expect Q2 EPS to grow in the high single digits driven in part by our engaged conference shifting from Q2 in the prior year to Q3 this fiscal year.

Tony Piazza: As a result, we expect H1 revenue growth in the mid-single digits. We expect Q2 EPS to grow in the high single digits, driven in part by our ENGAGE conference shifting from Q2 in the prior year to Q3 this fiscal year. In summary, we delivered a strong Q1 and solid start to our fiscal year.

Speaker #1: In summary, we delivered a strong first quarter and a solid start to our fiscal year. We remained focused on executing against our fiscal year 2027 objectives. Our capital allocation priorities remained consistent: investing in profitable growth, maintaining a strong financial position, and returning excess cash to shareholders over time, primarily through share repurchases.

Anthony Piazza: We remain focused on executing against our fiscal year 2027 objectives. Our capital allocation priorities remain consistent, investing in profitable growth, maintaining a strong financial position, and returning excess cash to shareholders over time, primarily through share repurchases. Longer term, we believe NetScout is well positioned to support customers as their network, security, and operations environments become more complex. Our experience in cybersecurity, service assurance, and network observability, together with our AI-ready Smart Data platform, gives customers a trusted foundation for digital transformation and AI-enabled operations. That concludes my review of our financial results and outlook. Please note that we plan to attend the B. Riley Consumer and TMT Conference in New York in September. We look forward to seeing some of you there. With that, let's open it up for questions. Operator?

Tony Piazza: We remain focused on executing against our fiscal year 2027 objectives. Our capital allocation priorities remain consistent, investing in profitable growth, maintaining a strong financial position, and returning excess cash to shareholders over time, primarily through share repurchases. Longer term, we believe NetScout is well positioned to support customers as their network, security, and operations environments become more complex.

Speaker #1: Longer term, we believe NetScout is well positioned to support customers as their network security and operations environments become more complex. Our enterprise our our experience in cybersecurity, service assurance, and network observability together with our AI ready smart data platform gives customers a trusted foundation for digital transformation and AI enabled operations.

Tony Piazza: Our experience in cybersecurity, service assurance, and network observability, together with our AI-ready Smart Data platform, gives customers a trusted foundation for digital transformation and AI-enabled operations. That concludes my review of our financial results and outlook. Please note that we plan to attend the B. Riley Consumer and TMT Conference in New York in September. We look forward to seeing some of you there. With that, let's open it up for questions. Operator?

Speaker #1: That concludes my review of our financial results and outlook. Please note that we plan to attend the B. Riley Consumer and TMT conference in New York in September.

Speaker #1: We look forward to seeing some of you there. With that, let's open it up for questions. Operator.

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Speaker #2: In the interest of time, we ask that you please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. Our first question will come from Matt Hedberg with RBC Capital Markets.

Speaker #2: Please go ahead.

Speaker #3: Hey guys, this is Simran on for Matt Hedberg. congrats on the quarter. My first question is that yep you noted that Q1 benefited from like the government related orders that were received earlier than expected.

[Analyst] (RBC Capital Markets): Hey, guys. This is Simran on for Matt Hedberg. Congrats on the quarter. My first question.

Anthony Piazza: Thank you.

Tony Piazza: Thank you.

[Analyst] (RBC Capital Markets): Yep. You noted that Q1 benefited from the government-related orders that were received earlier than expected. Could you quantify or just give more color on how much got pulled in and how we should think about that impacting linearity for Q2 in terms of those orders?

Speaker #3: Could you quantify or just give more color on like how much got pulled in and how we should think about that impacting linearity for Q2 in terms of those orders?

Speaker #1: Sure. So the orders that were pulled in were about 10 to 15 million dollars primarily government related. if I were to normalize the quarter it would have grown in the mid single digits.

Anthony Piazza: Sure. The orders that were pulled in were about $10 to $15 million, primarily government-related. If I were to normalize the quarter, it would have grown in the mid-single digits, which would be consistent with where we see the H1 of the fiscal year and consistent with where our full-year outlook sits.

Tony Piazza: Sure. The orders that were pulled in were about $10 to $15 million, primarily government-related. If I were to normalize the quarter, it would have grown in the mid-single digits, which would be consistent with where we see the H1 of the fiscal year and consistent with where our full-year outlook sits.

Speaker #1: which would be consistent with where we see the first half of the fiscal year and consistent with where our full year outlook.

Speaker #3: Okay, cool. And then just on some of the traction around your innovations like Sensor and Streamer, how should we think about that contribution for the year? And then, just more generally, what's resonating well with customers?

[Analyst] (RBC Capital Markets): Okay, cool. Just on some of the traction around your innovations like Sensor and Streamer, how should we think about that contribution for the year? Just more generally, what's resonating well with customers?

Speaker #1: Right like so first thing is that our service assurance growth inc will include that Omnix revenue. That's how we are categorizing it right now.

Anil Singhal: Well, first thing is that our service assurance growth I think will include that Omnis revenue. That's how we are categorizing it right now. We have less than 10 customers of that solution already. People are really hungry, and not just people, but AI algorithms can do a great job. You also need a great data set. We see a strong demand for what we are doing, and especially since this can be plugged in as a software module to our existing service assurance solution. One of the challenges we need to watch out for is what does the sales cycle look like, because these are big AI projects, and those are the two dynamics we are managing right now.

Speaker #1: And so we have fewer than 10 customers of that solution already. And people are really hungry—and not just people, but AI algorithms. They can do a great job, but they also need a great data set.

Speaker #1: So we see a a strong demand for what we are doing and especially since this is can be plugged in as a software module to our existing service assurance solution.

Anil Singhal: We see a strong demand for what we are doing, and especially since this can be plugged in as a software module to our existing service assurance solution. One of the challenges we need to watch out for is what does the sales cycle look like, because these are big AI projects, and those are the two dynamics we are managing right now.

Speaker #1: One of the challenge we need to watch out for is what is the sales cycle looks like because these are big AI projects and those are the two dynamics we are managing right now.

Speaker #1: So so I I think believe we see a lot of excitement at the customer level. We see a solid pipeline for this area. but I mean customers are still experimenting and so as they do that and decide on what their AI strategy is is then then we'll probably start to see more I think last quarter we said for the full year it was about 15 million dollars for FY26.

Anthony Piazza: I think, believe we see a lot of excitement at the customer level. We see a solid pipeline for this area. Customers are still experimenting. As they do that and decide on what their AI strategy is, we'll probably start to see more. I think last quarter we said for the full year it was about $15 million for FY '26. If I were to annualize the Q1, it's growing nicely for the year, we expect good contribution. Again, it's still small, we'll update people as the year goes on.

Tony Piazza: I think, believe we see a lot of excitement at the customer level. We see a solid pipeline for this area. Customers are still experimenting. As they do that and decide on what their AI strategy is, we'll probably start to see more. I think last quarter we said for the full year it was about $15 million for FY '26. If I were to annualize the Q1, it's growing nicely for the year, we expect good contribution. Again, it's still small, we'll update people as the year goes on.

Speaker #1: If I were to annualize the first quarter it's growing nicely. for for the year so we expect good contribution but again it's still small so we'll update people as the year goes on.

Speaker #2: Thank you. Our next question will come from Eric Spigger with B. Riley Securities. Please go ahead.

Operator: Thank you. Our next question will come from Eric Spiger with B. Riley Securities. Please go ahead.

Speaker #4: Yeah congrats on a on a good quarter. could you first comment it sounds like federal accelerated so can you comment a little bit about what you're expecting for federal as we enter the the fiscal year end for the for Q2.

Eric Spiger: Yeah. Congrats on a good quarter. Could you first comment, it sounds like federal accelerated, can you comment a little bit about what you're expecting for federal as we enter the fiscal year-end for Q2? Your rest of world was down. Does that reflect a slowing in the Middle East with the conflict going on there, or how should we think of the rest of world business, since that has been a growth driver in the past?

Erik Suppiger: Yeah. Congrats on a good quarter. Could you first comment, it sounds like federal accelerated, can you comment a little bit about what you're expecting for federal as we enter the fiscal year-end for Q2? Your rest of world was down. Does that reflect a slowing in the Middle East with the conflict going on there, or how should we think of the rest of world business, since that has been a growth driver in the past?

Speaker #4: And then your rest of world was down. Does that reflect slowing in the Middle East with with the conflict going on there or or how should we think of the the rest of world business since that's been a a growth driver in the past?

Speaker #1: Yeah so from a federal government perspective it tends to run in the mid to high single digits as a percentage of total revenue. for Q1 it ran in the mid teens area.

Anthony Piazza: Yeah. From a federal government perspective, it tends to run in the mid to high single digits as a percentage of total revenue. For Q1, it ran in the mid-teens area, so it was strong. We have a nice solid pipeline of federal deals, but as you know, with the federal government, it is all about magnitude and timing of funding. We are optimistic about the federal government right now. As far as rest of world-

Tony Piazza: Yeah. From a federal government perspective, it tends to run in the mid to high single digits as a percentage of total revenue. For Q1, it ran in the mid-teens area, so it was strong. We have a nice solid pipeline of federal deals, but as you know, with the federal government, it is all about magnitude and timing of funding. We are optimistic about the federal government right now. As far as rest of world-

Speaker #1: So it was strong. we have a nice solid pipeline of federal deals. But as you know with the federal government it's all about magnitude and timing of funding.

Speaker #1: but we are we're optimistic about the the government federal government right now. as far as rest of world.

Speaker #4: Just just just just to be clear on that I I thought you said that you did not have any 10% customers but federal in aggregate in in federal in is that to suggest that federal in aggregate was in the mid.

Eric Spiger: Just to be-

Erik Suppiger: Just to be-

Anthony Piazza: Yep.

Tony Piazza: Yep.

Eric Spiger: Just to be clear on that, I thought you said that you did not have any 10% customers-

Erik Suppiger: Just to be clear on that, I thought you said that you did not have any 10% customers-

Anthony Piazza: We did not.

Tony Piazza: We did not.

Eric Spiger: Federal in aggregate. Is that to suggest that Federal in aggregate was in the mid-

Erik Suppiger: Federal in aggregate. Is that to suggest that Federal in aggregate was in the mid-

Anthony Piazza: Correct.

Tony Piazza: Correct.

Speaker #4: Did you say the mid-single digits, or did you say mid-teens?

Eric Spiger: Did you say the mid-single digits, or did you say mid-?

Erik Suppiger: Did you say the mid-single digits, or did you say mid-?

Anthony Piazza: No

Tony Piazza: No

Speaker #1: No it was the mid teens. Mid teens. Yeah so you know the fe the federal revenue is made up of multiple customer and so no one customer.

Eric Spiger: mid-teens?

Erik Suppiger: mid-teens?

Anthony Piazza: Mid-teens. Yeah.

Tony Piazza: Mid-teens. Yeah.

Eric Spiger: Okay. All right.

Erik Suppiger: Okay. All right.

Anthony Piazza: The federal revenue is made up of multiple customers, no one customer.

Tony Piazza: The federal revenue is made up of multiple customers, no one customer.

Eric Spiger: Okay

Erik Suppiger: Okay

Speaker #1: the whole thing. with regard to rest of world from our perspective it's really just timing of deals. we don't see any trends in that right now.

Anthony Piazza: The whole thing. With regard to rest of world, from our perspective, it's really just timing of deals. We don't see any trends in that right now.

Tony Piazza: The whole thing. With regard to rest of world, from our perspective, it's really just timing of deals. We don't see any trends in that right now.

Speaker #4: Very good. Thank you.

Eric Spiger: Very good. Thank you.

Erik Suppiger: Very good. Thank you.

Speaker #1: Okay.

Anthony Piazza: Okay.

Tony Piazza: Okay.

Speaker #2: Thank you. Our next question will come from Kevin Liu with K Liu and Company. Please go ahead.

Operator: Thank you. Our next question will come from Kevin Liu with K. Liu & Company. Please go ahead.

Speaker #5: Hi good morning guys. just on the cybersecurity side of things I'm curious if you heard anything from customers about the impact of you know the Mythos model introduction and and how you know fears over AI exploits and and the like could affect things.

Kevin Liu: Hi. Good morning, guys.

Kevin Liu: Good morning.

Anil Singhal: Good morning.

Kevin Liu: Just on the cybersecurity side of things, I'm curious if you heard anything from customers about the impact of the Mythos model introduction and how fears over AI exploits and the like could affect things. I'm just wondering if that's either held up or maybe accelerated some deals and generally how you think that impacts deal cycles as we move forward.

Speaker #5: just wondering if that's either held up or maybe accelerated some deals and and generally how you think that impacts deal cycles as we move forward.

Speaker #1: I think that a similar idea as Kevin so first thing that DDoS area with we had announced a option to our product called ADP and which is basically a AI enabled automation support and things like that for our DDoS solution.

Anil Singhal: I think there are two areas, Kevin. First, in the DDoS area, we had announced an option to our product called ADP, which is basically AI-enabled automation support and things like that for our DDoS solution. That is going well, and is still early in the adoption cycle. On the cybersecurity, on the Omnis side, we have not focused on that right now because we see a lot of demand on the service assurance side with AI. At some point, we'll be able to use our Omnis Sensor and Omnis Streamer solution for security use cases also. Right now, the focus is on AI and ADP on the DDoS side and on the service assurance side with AI.

Speaker #1: So that is go going well and it's still early in the in the adoption cycle. On the cybersecurity on the Omni side we have not focus on that right now because we see a lot of demand on the service assurance side.

Anil Singhal: On the cybersecurity, on the Omnis side, we have not focused on that right now because we see a lot of demand on the service assurance side with AI. At some point, we'll be able to use our Omnis Sensor and Omnis Streamer solution for security use cases also. Right now, the focus is on AI and ADP on the DDoS side and on the service assurance side with AI.

Speaker #1: With AI and but at some point we'll be able to use our Omni sensor and streamer solution for security use cases also. But right now the focus is on AI and ADP on the DDoS side and on the service assurance side with AI.

Speaker #5: Understood. and then maybe one for Tony just on the inventory increase in in the quarter it's kind of up to the highest levels we've seen in a few years.

Kevin Liu: Understood. Maybe one for Tony, just on the inventory increase in the quarter, it's up to the highest levels we've seen in a few years. I'm just wondering if there's any particular driver of that and what sort of implications that might have for your product gross margin in terms of mix shift as we make our way through the year.

Speaker #5: just wondering if there's any particular driver of that and what sort of implications that might have for your product growth margin in in terms of makeshift as we make our way through the year.

Speaker #1: Yeah. So a+as you know there's some supply chain challenges out there. Resulting from these AI data set are build out so some of the equipment is more challenging to get and the prices are increasing.

Anthony Piazza: Yeah. As you know, there's some supply chain challenges out there resulting from these AI data center build-outs. Some of the equipment is more challenging to get, and the prices are increasing. We are working with our vendors that participate in our COTS program, so customers can buy the software from us and the hardware from the vendors to try to secure inventory and control the prices on that side. Additionally, NetScout has purchased incremental inventory, which you saw because the inventory went up about $7 million in the quarter, to secure that inventory so that we can help mitigate any challenges that customers might have as they think about purchasing the equipment.

Tony Piazza: Yeah. As you know, there's some supply chain challenges out there resulting from these AI data center build-outs. Some of the equipment is more challenging to get, and the prices are increasing. We are working with our vendors that participate in our COTS program, so customers can buy the software from us and the hardware from the vendors to try to secure inventory and control the prices on that side.

Speaker #1: And so we are working with our vendors that participate in our COTS program so customers can buy the software from us and the hardware from the vendors.

Speaker #1: To try to secure inventory and control the prices on that side. But additionally, NetScout has purchased incremental inventory, which you saw because the inventory went up about $7 million in the quarter.

Tony Piazza: Additionally, NetScout has purchased incremental inventory, which you saw because the inventory went up about $7 million in the quarter, to secure that inventory so that we can help mitigate any challenges that customers might have as they think about purchasing the equipment.

Speaker #1: to ba to secure that inventory so that we can help mitigate any challenges that customers might have as they think about purchasing the equipment.

Speaker #1: because although inven although you know from a equipment perspective it's not that significant for NetScout because NetScout's primarily a software vendor. customers may ch may change their buying behaviors if they can't get the equipment and it could impact software.

Anthony Piazza: Because although from an equipment perspective, it's not that significant for NetScout because NetScout's primarily a software vendor, customers may change their buying behaviors if they can't get the equipment, and it could impact software. What we're doing is working multiple solutions to proactively mitigate that issue for customers. Thus far, we've been successful, and we haven't experienced issues in that area. That's what we're doing with the inventory.

Tony Piazza: Because although from an equipment perspective, it's not that significant for NetScout because NetScout's primarily a software vendor, customers may change their buying behaviors if they can't get the equipment, and it could impact software. What we're doing is working multiple solutions to proactively mitigate that issue for customers. Thus far, we've been successful, and we haven't experienced issues in that area. That's what we're doing with the inventory.

Speaker #1: So what we're doing is working multiple solutions to proactively mitigate that issue for customers. And thus far we've been successful and we we haven't experienced issues in that area.

Speaker #1: So so that that's what we're doing with the inventory.

Speaker #2: Thank you. There are no further questions in the queue. So I'd like to close out today's call. Thank you for joining ladies and gentlemen and we appreciate your participation.

Thank you. There are no further questions in the queue. I'd like to close out today's call. Thank you for joining, ladies and gentlemen, and we appreciate your participation. You may now disconnect.

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