Paul Sagan
Analyst · Brigantine Advisors.
Sure. Well I always had been cautious to generalize, people tend to talk about Europe like it's one country, it's many countries. It's not a bunch of states as we tend to obviously, think about the U.S. So we need to be very careful that their markets have their dynamic. And I think if you look at the growth, you have to also remember that currency headwind was even more severe. So the growth there if you normalize there was on par with the rest of the business. And we continue to believe that there is more opportunity. There's just more people on the Internet and in many places, with better broadband. I would recommend you look at our State of the Internet report offline that came out earlier in the week, and you'll see that broadband access and growth, fastest cities in the world, most of them are not in North America, as it turns out. So we see opportunity there and uptake across the board, strong uptake for our Application Acceleration services. Particularly there are global companies all around the world where -- and they're trying to reach their partners, prospects, customer, suppliers around the world. They use our Application Acceleration services to improve a business process and raise that affection with their customers for what they do. At the same time, there is our traditional media and video delivery and we were doing HD of the World Cup for, as I said, several dozen broadcasters. There were only I think two, with the right -- in the U.S., the rest were elsewhere. So they were in-country broadcasters with those local rights, or rights in a couple of geographies. And they were using the HD network like never before. So I wouldn't say it's all in the volumes side, it's value-added side. It's both. We're doing very well in Asia and in many places in Europe. I think in the macro sense, we're probably a little more concerned with the economy in Europe for all the widely known reasons. And I think that slowed things down, but not dramatically. But it gives us certainly, some pause and some worry. We will continue to invest most of that investment internationally in opening or expanding regions. And then localizing products, often that's really a language question. Sometimes it's a customization of the product a little bit as well, to sell it.