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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Arista Fireside Chat at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia and Technology Conference. My name is Mike Ng, and I cover Arista and ComTech here at the firm. It's my privilege to welcome Arista's president and CTO, Ken Duda, alongside Chantel Breithop, who's the CFO. We have about 35 minutes for today's presentation, but first and foremost, Ken, Chantel, thank you so much for joining us today. It's an absolute pleasure.
Yeah, thank you for having us. Great to be here after a long weekend.
Yeah, exactly. Well, to kick things off, you know, Arista crossed a historic milestone last quarter with its first $3 billion revenue quarter. Networking is an absolutely critical part of client, campus, data center, and AI environments. So maybe start and talk about how you're balancing the strategic investments between scaling the core AI and data center switching fabric product portfolio versus what you're doing in software, campus, and routing?
Yeah, thanks, Michael. We are so excited about what's happening in networking because the network is absolutely the lifeblood of so many different kinds of operations. And it connects everything together. When the network ain't working, ain't nothing working. It's super reliability critical. and we feel like our opportunity to continue to grow and expand in that space is just really exciting to me. And in regard to your question about how do we invest, one of the great things about our business is we don't have to think about it in those terms, right? It's not sort of a, well, do we invest here or do we invest there? It's like, no. What we do is we work very closely with the world's most sophisticated hyperscaler operators, customized solutions for them, bring in the newest technologies. You can see that now with XPO, liquid-cooled optics, and that sort of thing. Get all that working at scale. And then those investments that we make in the hardware and the software and the technology naturally flow across the ecosystem into the broader markets, the specialty operators, ultimately into the enterprises. And so we're investing along the entire chain there. It's not a sort of A or B decision.
Yeah, the only thing I would add to Ken's comments, which absolutely resonate with me in the sense of how we approach the company, it's a benefit and it's not confusing for a capital allocation strategy or investment strategy when you're just pure play networking, right? So we love all those children equally because they're all important in a networking portfolio. And if you think about our guide for this year being $12.6 billion, roughly 40% growth, that's a lot of absolute dollars added if you maintain 8% to 10% of R&D to revenue for Ken and his team. So we're super excited, and we have room for all of those things to be invested in.
I mean, that's a fantastic segue. Maybe you can talk a little bit about that revenue guidance for this year. You know, what specific customer demand signals or supply chain improvements and availability inform that upward revision? And, you know, where do you feel like you have the most visibility today and potentially opportunities for upside optionality?
Yeah, sure. So Jayshree and I were super excited to raise the guidance by over $1 billion in the last call. And I would say two things were true to make that a comfortable position for us. The first thing was, if I go back to the Q1 earnings call, back to the scenario that no one thought was popular but was definitely needed talking about supply chain constraints across the industry, we got more comfortable with supply chain. We leaned into purchase commitments. We had some of our vendors rally that we needed to rally. and we had to make sure the team inside the company was on their A-game to make sure this happened. So supply chain was something we were comfortable with, Michael. And the second thing is by the time you get to that kind of August time frame, we have two quarters of PO transactional visibility so we can see through to the end of the year. So supply chain improvements with PO visibility timing, those two things came together to give us confidence. I think if you were to look at what could give us even more upside to that guide raise, it's that the supply chain eases up even more. You know, I think that we're not out of the woods. I don't think anyone in the industry is out of the woods for supply chain constraints. But if that gets a little bit more opened up, there could be some potential for upside.
Are there any particular areas of the supply chain or component availability that would ring true in terms of things getting better leading to potential upside?
I don't know if it's one because it's different. Customers have different things. But it's everything from some of the peripherals to some of the main things, main components that come into it. So, you know, we have agreements on chips and memory, but there's PCBs and sometimes there's power cables and things like that that just kind of whack-a-mole through the year. So we'll just keep our eye on it.
I wanted to ask about EOS and competitive differentiation. It's, you know, an important competitive moat for Arista. You know, I think it's a competitive advantage when you put Arista against any white box vendor. So maybe you can talk a little bit about EOS, its differentiation, and has that changed over the years as white box operating systems potentially get better?
Yeah, the situation with open source NOS is that it may be open source, it is not free. It takes a deep technical expertise to actually get all the components together, assemble them into an image, and get that to actually work on the hardware platforms and use cases of interest. So I'm not foreseeing any deep penetration there outside of a handful of hyperscaler operators who I don't believe are even saving a single dollar here, honestly. What they're gaining is multi-sourcing of their software environment. They cannot accept the operational risk of being beholden to a single vendor. And that's the core driver, I believe, for what's happening in that part of the market. The competitive differentiation of EOS is very strong in the hyperscaler use cases. We're seeing still good traction with EOS, even as they attempt an open source strategy. especially in high-demand routing use cases where you need fast reconvergence, you need to deal with large routing tables, you need rapid convergence when something changes in the network, getting the hardware tables updated quickly, and under the memory constraints of the platform, we see significant advantage there. But for the broader market, I don't even think the open-source operating systems are a realistic option, and there the competitive differentiation of EOS lies in the quality. The fact that you can count on the software really working and customer after customer tells me how much they appreciate having a software stack that they can really count on.
And, Ken, maybe just to follow up on that, are there certain products or areas of the network stack where EOS is critically important, whether that be in the spine or the leaf or certain AI use cases, whether that be like scale-out versus scale-across? How would you just think about where EOS's competitive differentiation matters the most and shines the most?
Well, again, I think it's really important to think about the hyperscaler market separately from really any of the other market segments. The NeoCloud operators are in a different category. Certainly the enterprises are in a different category. And part of the strength of Arista is applying the same software. We have the same operating system, not just the same brand. It's the same code running across that entire spectrum. And the advantages that we bring vary across that spectrum. So there's not a simple answer to your question. I would say that what we see in the hyperscalers where we have the greatest differentiation is, again, in routing. We have a very advanced routing stack. all the policy controls, all the different tunnel encapsulation types of MPLS stack, it's simply not available in the open source world. Whereas with the NeoCloud operators and with the enterprises, it's the quality of EOS, the manageability through Cloud Vision, having a single software that runs across all of their use cases, whether it's a campus use case, a WAN use case, a cloud use case, or, of course, in the data center, having that consistency of operation is a really important differentiator for us as well.
I wanted to ask about Merchant Silicon in your high-end Ethernet switches. You guys obviously have a really great relationship with Broadcom, I guess most recently for the Tomahawk 6. What are the advantages of using Merchant Silicon versus, you know, developing your own from a supply availability perspective, you know, has working with merchant silicon and the allocation risk associated with that been a concern at all?
Well, the supply chain, of course, is a great concern. We have supply. We have demand. You need them both, you know. And it's an industry-wide problem. This is nothing unique to Arista about this. And the semiconductor side in particular, The merchant silicon versus in-house silicon isn't actually the big issue because the bottleneck isn't the chip designer. The bottleneck is the fab, right? So that doesn't really turn out to matter very much. From a supply allocation point of view, obviously we've been managing that through being aggressive with our supply agreements and our purchase commitments, and we feel good about our position there. Arista has been a merchant silicon company from day one. I think our focus has been to add value through the system and through the software. Better software, better integrated into the system. We have many examples where our software unlocks capabilities of the silicon, which is not unlocked through other vendors because of limitations in the software stack. So I think we've proven in the market that that merchant silicon approach has been successful.
Great. That's very clear. Chantel, maybe on gross margins, Arista has 2026 gross margin guidance of 62% to 64%, and you maintained that last quarter despite cost inflation, customer mix shifts. What are some of the puts and takes for gross margin this year?
Yeah, you know, I think that if we go back to our analyst day we had, I think in October 25, we stated the 2026 gross margin guide to be 62% to 64%. And to your point, with all the different things that have come in, we've still had that guide. So I'm very proud of the team to allow us to do that. So what are the main components? The main components usually for us is a customer mix from that perspective. And then the other one, too, that I would say is coming into this year a little bit similar to our peers is there's tariffs this year. There are tariff refunds. And so if you look at that 62 to 64 guide, maybe 30 basis points, I would say, on the year is going to be tariff, you know, one time coming back into the P&L just to be transparent about that. So if you think about the other pieces that are coming to mix, so if we talk about kind of the price component inflation side of it, our philosophy earlier this year was to measure two or three times cut once. So we tried to sweep in everything we thought could happen in the time frame, component inflation, maybe other different tariffs, et cetera. And we had one price increase, but it was just meant to offset the inflation, not meant to be accretive to our gross margin, but to hold it. And we only applied that to POs in the future, to customers that had significant pieces of their bill of material. So it was pretty curated. It wasn't just everyone got, it wasn't like Oprah, everyone gets a car, everyone gets a price increase. We were pretty, you know, segmented and pretty accurate on that one. And so those will start to come in, those price increases, as we work through the backlog into new purchase orders. The component inflation comes and goes depending on our supplier agreements. And so we've tried to make that neutral coming into this year, and we'll see where we get in 2027 based on the market. But a lot of great work by the team, both the commercial and the supply chain side, and we've been able to steer the ship within that guide so far.
And could you just expand a little bit on some of the price increases implemented by Arista to recover that cost inflation, whether that be timing, magnitude, types of products and, you know, anything you could talk about as it relates to next year's gross margins, just given some of the puts and takes on the price increase, you know, tailwind and then the tariff refund kind of, I'll call it a reversal.
Yeah, sure. I think that from the perspective of the price increase, the largest component is the memory in the current kind of conversation. And so if the bill of material had a higher memory component to it, we would have a price increase in that situation and explain to the customer trying to be as transparent as possible how that kind of flows through if it didn't have not a lot of our products have high memory bill of materials so those weren't necessarily impacted and then you'll have some of the the chips and some of the other factors that go in so those were all averaged out to a particular product a particular conversation I think going into next year I'm not guiding next year at this point but I think from the perspective of don't know if we'll have to do another price increase we'll have to see, but hopefully the one we've done will carry into next year and keep us margin neutral within the same kind of range territory.
That's great. Maybe we'll follow up on something that you guys talked about earlier, which is the multi-year purchase commitments. I think last quarter they nearly tripled to $9.7 billion. What does this component commitment talk about or reflect in terms of your confidence in delivering and sustaining, fulfilling the consumer demand over the next couple of years? How much visibility on the component side do you actually have?
Yeah, so as a company, we have many different frameworks. Some people call us conservative. I would call us prudent, and one of the ways we're prudent is the way we operate our balance sheet. And so when we do lean into things, it is with intention. And so our lean into the purchase commitments should be seen by this audience and those that will see this after as a demand signal, right? So that's a demand signal that you're seeing there. It's not that that's all inflation on components. That's demand. So I think that's very exciting from our perspective regarding that. I think that if you look at the visibility side, so our biggest component are the chips, and that's 52-week lead time, right? So we're already leaning into fast forward a year from now. So how do I reconcile? I have two quarters of visibility, but I have one year lead time. The great thing about our portfolio is it's pretty fungible, and so it's not like we're ordering specific chips that we can't use or building specific products we can't offer a different customer. So, again, going back to the flexibility of the portfolio, the fungibility of the components, we feel very comfortable. We're not walking into a large obsolescence inventory risk environment. And some of the customers we have, the larger customers, neoclouds, hyperscalers. We're having 18, 24-month technology conversations, right, Ken? So we have an idea of where they're going, and we're helping them design. So we directionally know without a PO in hand where they should be going. So we balance those two things.
Michael, if I could just comment. This is an example of how the alignment that Arista has between the hyperscaler side of our business and the enterprise side of our business is so useful because we've got competitors that have different business units going after these things with completely independent engineering engagements, and they're taking a lot more risk of component obsolescence than we are when we can utilize the same switch models, which, of course, obviously contain the same components across multiple use cases, multiple types of customers that are operating at different time frames. Some are a lot more aggressive than others, as you can imagine, in adopting the new technologies, and so we have a lot of sort of room there to find demand downstream. Great.
Yeah, that's very clear. And maybe just on the other balance sheet item that investors focus on a lot, deferred revenue. You know, how much visibility do you actually have in the deferred revenue recognition into actual revenue? And, you know, does things like data center readiness, the availability of power affect your ability to recognize revenue, you know, in terms of your products being shipped?
Yeah. So just to remind, because sometimes it's not clear to all, deferred revenue means it's been shipped, invoiced, and usually cash collected within the payment term. So that's what's in deferred. Sometimes people confuse it for backlog. It's already shipped. There's no supply chain issue because it's already been deployed. So from that perspective, you know, we have an idea. So deferred revenue is a new use cases, new products, right? So right now you think about what's that for Arista? It's scale out, it's scale across, eventually scale up. Those are new use cases, new product 1.6T. So those are the types of things, 800 gig that goes into deferred. And visibility is as good as the expected time frame it's going to take to get to the revenue recognition of the criteria. So of course we have an idea, but we don't determine it in the sense of when it actually gets accepted. So we'll have a timeframe, usually within a quarter or two, and it's usually landed pretty well. But I can give you some anecdotes in the sense of what we're hearing, and I'm sure that you guys have many more than I do, given you cover many companies. But we had a large customer say to us, they actually had, they said a three to four week delay that their data center stopped constructing because an employee was hurt, and they had to prove that the facility was okay for employees to work. So that's almost a month gone already, just because of an employee injury, which you have to take very seriously so add the power the cooling the facilities the cabling there are many reasons why it can take 18 to 24 months for some of these things to be completed and so that's that's the average time frame each is bespoke but every quarter things are coming off being accepted and things are being added and so I think that that healthy kind of turnover I'm comfortable with in the way that it's acting yeah and just to remind us the nature of the deferral is it because you're You're promising a certain level of uptime and performance, and it has to be in production for that. Well, it's different things. It can be. The thing I would say is the customers really enjoy it because we have skin in the game until they've gotten to where they need to get to. We don't ship it, leave it, and say, good luck to you. Not to be flippant, but that's the opposite.
The customer has to accept the product as working in their use case.
So it can be site by site. It can be performance. There's many different things for different customers. But it keeps us engaged and our SEs and our technical team engaged until they've gotten to. Because you think about some of these clusters are some of the largest in the world, right?
I wanted to ask about neoclouds. It constantly comes up as something when I do my channel checks and expert calls as something that Arista is doing really well with in terms of a customer cohort, but maybe a little bit underappreciated. So talk a little bit about the neocloud segment. How is competitive intensity in the segment involved? Are these all like net new logos or are they expansions of existing relationships? How important is the neocloud in your AI outlook? No, we're very happy about the neocloud.
This is a great thing for Arista because this is where we can really leverage our expertise. We have built out some of the interconnects or some of the largest AI clusters in the world. So we bring that to the table along with switches that are proven. and the most reliable switch operating system. So NeoClouds, in some ways, are our ideal customer because they appreciate the best-of-breed capabilities. They have the mandate to get to the lowest token cost, which means optimizing across the full stack and not simply accepting a lock-in solution from a single vendor. But at the same time, they really benefit from what we bring in terms of a fully tried and tested interconnect, including the load balancing, the ability in the scale-out network to deal with a multi-tier situation and avoiding the kinds of hash collisions that lead to fabric slowdowns in an unoptimized architecture, along with the manageability benefits with CloudVision and the ability to automate the upgrades and the rollout, the reconfiguration, and get that sort of combined visibility to see, Cloud Vision enables you to see simultaneously what's happening in the network with respect to queuing, packet drop, latency, bursts, and flow data, and what's going on on the AI server in terms of flow control, RDMA timeouts, congestion loss, and retransmissions. And so that sort of, that visibility feature is difficult for the neoclouds to reproduce on their own, and it's another way we add value there.
And then the other thing I'd add to Neoclouds as the CFO, we're very excited about this market. It means a lot to us. It's almost like a high-risk, high-reward segment in my view. So we're very cognizant of how we enter into the terms and conditions. And so because this market's not necessarily always proven out from a financial backing perspective. So we either walk away from the deal or we have prepayment scenarios, et cetera. So we're very clear, do we understand where the invoice is going to be paid at the end of the day, given the volatility of what you've seen because there are many neoclouds starting and not all make it. So we're just very clear just to be super clear for the audience as investors.
Ken, you talked about single vendor lock-in and I'm assuming that's a reference to somebody who has both compute and networking. Maybe you could just talk a little bit about that. Arista is obviously an open ecosystem beneficiary. What determines whether a customer is in a closed ecosystem versus an open ecosystem? Is there a specific customer profile that's more likely to seek out the best of breed despite who the vendor is?
Yes, for sure. It's about scale. Customers who are operating at scale have the mandate. They have the incentive of the business driver to do a full stack optimization. They need all the pieces to work together properly. They need the best of breed at each layer of their infrastructure. And so what we're seeing is low-volume customers don't have that same mandate. They don't have the same leverage on building that kind of optimized solution. And they're more likely to go with a turnkey solution. There are also issues with allocation, where you don't necessarily get your fair share of the allocation unless you buy the vendor's turnkey solution. that creates complications for our customers and drives them more towards a single vendor solution if they lack the purchase leverage to drive, to sort of split that apart, if you know what I mean. So it's really about the scale of the customer.
Great. Very clear. We talked a little bit about scale across. You guys mentioned the importance of EOS when you think about things like routing tables. I think those things are related. But, you know, you recently said that scale across was going to represent, I think, 30% of the $3.5 billion AI revenue target this year. Maybe for the audience, just, you know, define scale across. Is that all, you know, DCI but for distributed AI training? What products go in scale across and how do you see it scaling over the long term?
Well, since you invited it, I'll give a 30-second primer on AI networking. So you first have to separate out the front end from the back end. So on the front end, we're talking about connecting AI clusters to the other infrastructure, so internet routing to storage to the other systems, the tools, the sources of input to the AI, the training data. All that comes in through the front end network. And the back end is all about connecting GPUs or accelerators to other accelerators. So within that, exchanging all the model weights and the partial matrices and all the data flow, especially during training, that's required for the training algorithms. And the back end network has three parts. There's scale up, typically within one rack, within one enclosure, connecting GPUs that are physically maybe on the same board or certainly in the same system. Then there's scale out, which is interconnecting many of those systems across many racks in a data center. And then there's scale across, which is interconnecting at the back end clusters that have essentially been split across data centers. And scale across has a lot more challenge than scale out in routing complexity and in deep buffering requirement because you need to get enough data in flight to cover the full round trip between clusters that may be geographically distributed. And so that drives the 7800R platform, I think you mentioned, and then the higher buffering and the higher routing capabilities of our more advanced platforms. And we're seeing very good demand there because customers are facing very severe constraints in the power and cooling and just getting the data center space they need. And so they're having to take what they can get. They can only get so much power in any one location, put as many GPUs as they can within that power envelope, and then they need to expand their clusters larger. And that's where scale across becomes so critical for them and where we're seeing really good demand.
Yeah, I think the only thing I would add to Ken's comments is we feel incredibly well-positioned for this market, not that we don't feel for scale up or scale out, but scale across specifically because you need the hardware portfolio, you need the software portfolio, And, you know, I would say the experience we have with some of the larger scale-out AI deployments, and you bring all those three things together, and I think it positions us very well, and that's why you're seeing us talk so much about it in the scale-across environment.
Sounds like that's creative to margins, given the complexity. Is that fair?
I would say that for the value provided, there's an opportunity there, depending on the customer end segment. Okay, great.
On scale-up Ethernet, when does that become something that's more meaningful to Arista.
Yeah, ScaleUp is such a huge opportunity for us. We have almost no share there now, as you probably know. But there's a standardization going on, which has happened so many times in our industry, where you start off with single-vendor proprietary technologies moving towards open standards where Arista has been so successful. And we see that happening now exactly in the ScaleUp network with ESUN. Ethernet, again, is coming to the table to take its fair share. And we expect to see, we're really excited by our customer engagements there. There's early trial stuff already going on, but we expect this to really start to ramp probably the later part of 2027 and really see volume in early 2028.
Yeah, I think it's analogous to when I was taking the role back in early 24 when I started, we were having the same conversations on pilots, trials, and production for Inciniband Ethernet. exactly it's like it feels like a rinse repeat in the most respectful way to to enter the scale of market so I think it'll be a similar kind of journey great right why don't we pivot and talk a little bit about campus Arista raised its campus revenue target for this year to over 1.25 billion dollars you know what specific value props does a risk to offer relative to incumbents how much of that growth is cross-selling into some of your very happy data center customers versus, you know, net new enterprise logos.
Yeah, thanks. Thanks, Michael. Campus is a great growth opportunity for us. And the value proposition, fundamentally, the same thing. It works. We have a level of quality there that is unmatched in our industry. And we, again, we've captured by having the same software stack, very similar hardware platforms. You need power over Ethernet. The hardware platforms are not identical, but they're very similar, built by the same team, targeting data center, targeting campus. And having the same software and the same hardware architectures across that whole thing means we're able to leverage our experience, our success in the data center into those other market segments, not just from a business point of view, but from a technical point of view as well. Having the same cloud vision management stack, it manages data center networks, it manages campus networks. It manages them both together, providing end-to-end flow visibility. So if you're troubleshooting a client over Wi-Fi going through a campus network across the WAN into the data center trying to understand what's going on there, if you've got one system, that's a lot easier than if you have three, you know? So we bring that consistency of operation, that EOS quality, and to the campus networking problem. And our early campus customers were basically people who said we love you so much in the data center could you please make some campus switches because we're already taking your data center switches putting them onto the campus using POE power injectors you know because we want to get the Arista value proposition that much our early customers were largely data center but more recently we're seeing bigger and bigger fraction of new campus logos people coming to us because they're so frustrated with their incumbent vendor, their quality problems, the licensing, contracts that they're putting them through. So we're getting a lot of campus-first deals as well now.
Yeah, and just to kind of close on that, we're starting with a roughly 5% market share. So for us, this is high volume, lower dollars, steady growth over many, many years to come. And the fact that our portfolio is recognized on its own to not even need to be in the data center is, I think, a huge validation for the team. So I would say look for more in this space, right?
And on the campus piece, is it really just a risk to getting their fair share because, to your point, you're not there yet? Or thematically, are there campus switches and wireless access point drivers from security concerns, mythos, Wi-Fi 7, like product cycles, just anything that you would call out there?
Well, I think the way we kind of package it is we call it the cognitive campus, so it's always on, to Ken's point, it's always on, zero-touch operations and zero-trust networking. And so I think you could talk about each of those three things as how it's a competitive advantage the way that we're approaching it. I don't know if there's anything you want to talk about, the always-on piece of it, the same time upgrades in the sense of you don't have to.
Yeah, I think that's consistency of operation is so important, and the fact that you can use the same Cloud Vision provisioning automation to roll out a new set of branches or a new campus deployment. You're also using to roll out new racks, new halls in your data center. It helps our customers simplify their operations.
And you don't need to have downtime to do the next upgrade, right, which is pretty significantly different than our competitors.
Thanks for that. In-service software upgrades in the campus. I used to think, hey, it's a campus. People go home at 4 in the morning.
You can just upgrade the network then, right?
Well, it turns out there are a lot of 24 by 7 operations out there. And the whole thing is your security systems, your telephone systems, all your HVAC systems. It's all running over that same network and in a hospital, in a manufacturing facility, in a logistics center, in a media distribution center. This is campus gear with a 24 by 7 requirement and our in-service upgrades, which we built for the data center. I didn't think they would even be useful in the campus. They turned out to be a major differentiator. This is another great example of how we gain leverage by having a consistent portfolio across all of the different domains of the network.
Maybe two more questions for me. Chantel, how are you thinking about capital allocation at this stage, buybacks, M&A, potential working capital investments to potentially increase visibility into supply availability?
Yeah, I think that in that order, for sure, I would prioritize working capital. We're going to go through fluctuations. We're at step function growth, right? When you're doing 40% per year on a company that's 12 years old, that's step function. So absolutely, working capital will be the theme for the next couple of years as we work through this new stage of growth, which we're very excited about. The buyback philosophy for Jayshree and I is opportunistic, so we'll continue to watch and see what makes sense. But we're okay to have the cash to work through the working capital at this moment. And then M&A, lots of things are brought to us, but we haven't seen anything that fits both the tech and the culture that we need. So if there's something that hits that Venn diagram, always excited to look at it, but nothing specific at the moment.
In the last minute or so, to close out, as you both look out at Arista's multi-year product roadmap, what specific technology or market opportunities are you personally most excited about? Ken, maybe you can kick off. Oh, man.
Yeah, so I'm a software guy. I've been programming my whole life, and the AI coding assistants were eye-opening in the capabilities of this technology, A technology which has been so great for us on the sell side, selling into the AI networks, I believe we can also incorporate into our products and create a network engineering and operations assistant with the same kind of impact as AI coding assistants have had for software engineers. And this is going to be a real important driver of our mainstream customer, improving their efficiency, improving their uptime, improving their operations through AI solutions.
Yeah, the only thing I would add that I'm excited about just to close out is Arista's made for AI for networking. Scale up, scale out, scale across, training inference, front end, back end, mythos environment, you name it. We stay true to the networking and we're very excited about where the AI journey can take us. Thank you.
Great way to cap it off. Ken, Chantel, thank you so much for being part of the conference.
Thank you.
Thanks, Michael.
Thank you.
Thank you.