Yaron Ravkaie
Analyst · Maxim Group. Please go ahead
Thanks Josh. So first of all, I’ve shadow of the company for several weeks before if I look at like six, seven weeks, four weeks which I'm formally the CEO, I'm very excited. I would say that if you think about telecom and service providers, and I begin in [ph]. Some of you know my background. I’ve been in Amdocs for many years. Every several years something happens in the telecom industry which is like a sea change, which is a major change. And the last huge one that I participated in, which generated huge amounts of activity which was translated into project and revenues for many companies, I would say was the launch of the iPhone and afterwards the smartphone revolution. If you go back, there is many before that. I'm equating NFV to that type of revolution. And you look at public information like, I don't know, like interviews with John Donovan from AT&T and how they treat their network, you look at publications from others, some of them you mentioned, and you see that it’s coming together. Now the reason why I think it's going to be so transformation and I'm so excited about it and I see this thing materialize - now again it's not going to happen in days, take it several years because these are networks and it takes time to evolve, but I don't think there is really any choice but to go there. The pressure that these carriers are at, are at a point that they must innovate. Now they are doing so at the level that they went to the industry or the gorillas of the industry or the Ericssons of the world, the Nokias of the world, the Huaweis of the world and they’ve impacted the industry to a level where they are causing the industry to change. That's in my words, but I think you'll find it that I'm not the only one. It's a huge disruption. And it's a huge disruption and a huge change that's I think the excitement. Now again, it's not going to happen in weeks. It will take - it will be transformational, but if you look at disruptions that happened in industries, in overall industry, if you take period of three years or five years or something like that, networks will look completely different. And for those that don't believe, they look at what happened to datacenters six, seven years ago when people started to talk about cloud, every CIO would say I'm never going to put mission critical things on the cloud. Then there were the early-adopters and the ones that took some risks and worked with the industry, and today a huge portion of datacenters is cloud-based. This is what is going to happen also here in this market.