Thomas Stanton
Analyst · Evercore ISI
Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. Although we are disappointed with the reported results of this past quarter, we believe they were driven by a specific set of factors. As we communicated in our preliminary results press release, the project delay from a single customer, combined with unfavorable impacts from product and customer mix caused our results to fall short of our guidance. Despite these factors, demand across our markets -- our end markets remains healthy. Our strategic priorities remain on track, and our customer base continues to diversify. We believe those underlying fundamentals position us well as we look ahead into 2027. As we shared in our pre-announcement, one of our customers adjusted the timing of a project, which affected our results for the quarter. This customer remains committed to its deployment objectives, and we view this as a timing adjustment rather than a change in demand. Overall customer demand remained strong during the quarter, but a challenging supply environment limited our ability to fulfill that demand, constraining shipments and resulting in an unfavorable mix. To be clear, absent these incremental supply constraints, we would have met our original revenue guidance. Against this backdrop, ADTRAN delivered second quarter revenue of $281.1 million, consistent with our preliminary results and non-GAAP operating margin of approximately 3.8%, also in line with our pre-announcement. While these results reflected the items I just discussed, several indicators of our strategic progress continued to strengthen during the quarter. Our optical business continued to serve as a key growth engine, and our growth was broad-based across service provider, enterprise, government and cloud customers and reflects continued demand for higher capacity optical infrastructure. AI-driven networking expansion and secure connectivity. We are also generating tangible benefits from our diversification strategy. Revenue from enterprise, government and cloud customers grew a strong 47% year-over-year and 19% sequentially, accounting for 25% of total company revenue in the quarter. Within this customer segment, revenue from hyperscalers increased 97% year-over-year, underscoring the strength of our diversification strategy. This momentum is being driven primarily by our data center interconnect business. In parallel, we continue to expand engagements with hyperscalers and large-scale content providers for our upcoming MicroMux Quattro and the LiteWave 800 pluggable optics solutions. The results highlight our growing participation in attractive end markets beyond our traditional service provider base and reflect the opportunities created by continued investment in cloud and AI infrastructure. As we broaden our customer adoption and expand our solutions footprint, we believe we are well positioned to benefit from these longer-term growth trends. Secure connectivity is another area where we continue to drive increasing customer demand. Our recently announced collaboration with euNetworks highlights growing demand for quantum-safe networking solutions and validates the strength of our multilayer encryption portfolio and integrated cryptographic management capabilities as service providers and enterprises place greater urgency on addressing quantum-secure vulnerabilities. Within our Service Provider segment, we continue to unlock opportunities driven by vendor replacement programs, network modernization initiatives, broadband expansion efforts and increasing security requirements. These trends are driving investment across transport and access networks and position us to benefit from large-scale broadband initiatives such as BEAD in the U.S., Project Gigabit in the U.K., Germany's Gigabit Strategy 2030 and Italia's 1 Giga alongside growing demand streaming from European network security and trusted vendor initiatives, including the proposed EU Cybersecurity Act 2 or CSA 2. Now some specifics of our product categories. Optical networking revenue was $109.7 million, up 22% year-over-year and 13% sequentially. Access & Aggregation Solutions revenue was $86.9 million and was directly impacted by the customer timing dynamics I discussed earlier. Subscriber solutions revenue was $84.5 million, reflecting normal variability following a very strong first quarter. Subsequent to quarter end, we strengthened our financial foundation through the completion of a senior secured credit facility. This refinancing lowers borrowing costs and extends maturities, providing additional financial flexibility as we execute our long-term strategy. In summary, the underlying drivers of our business remains intact and demand for our products is strong. Although the company's gross margin performance has continued to improve over the past -- the last 3 years, including being able to overcome the product and freight cost increases we have experienced over the last few quarters, Q2 results reflected a tightening of supply, which resulted in an unfavorable product mix as our ability to ship higher-margin products was impacted and ultimately lowered gross margins. As the supply chain outlook remains uncertain, we continue to advance actions that will strengthen our margins and better align our performance with our long-term operating objectives of 42% to 43% gross margin. Amidst the current supply environment, we are maintaining strong operating expense control and remain committed to our 10% non-GAAP operating margin target. We continue to gain momentum in optical networking, further diversifying our customer base and see a clear path forward towards improving profitability. We remain confident in our strategy and our ability to create long-term shareholder value. With that, I'll turn the call over to Tim to review our financial results in greater detail and follow-up with questions. Tim?