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ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN)
Q1 2010 Earnings Call
April 14, 2010 10:30 am ET
Tom Stanton – CEO
Jim Matthews – SVP & CFO
Unspecified Analyst
Blair King – Avondale Partners
Ari Bensinger – Standard & Poor's
Michael Genovese - Soleil Securities
Sanjiv Wadhwani - Stifel Nicolaus
Todd Koffman - Raymond James
Rich Valera – Needham & Company
Nikos Theodosopoulos - UBS
Steve Ferranti – Stevens Incorporated
Vivek Arya – BofA/Merrill Lynch
Simon Leopold - Morgan, Keegan
Amir Rozwadowski - Barclays Capital
Jim Suva - Citi
Lawrence Harris - CL King
Hasan Imam - Thomas Weisel Partners
Good morning, at this time I would like to welcome everyone to the ADTRAN first quarter earnings release conference call. (Operator Instructions) During the course of the conference call, ADTRAN representatives expect to make forward-looking statements which reflect management's best judgment based on factors currently known.
However, these statements involve risks, and uncertainties including the successful development and market acceptance of new products, the degree of competition in the market for such products, sub products, and channel mix, component costs, manufacturing efficiencies, and other risks detailed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009.
These risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements which may be made during the call. At this time I would like to turn the call over to Mr. Tom Stanton, CEO; Mr. Stanton you may begin your conference.
Tom Stanton
It is my pleasure to welcome you to ADTRAN's first quarter 2010 conference call. Joining me on the call is Senior Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer, Jim Matthews. I will start today's call by providing some insight into the company's first quarter performance as well as our outlook for the second quarter.
Following this, Jim will provide the financial results for the first quarter. We will then open the floor up to answer any questions that you may have.
Let me begin by saying I am pleased to report that we had a solid first quarter for 2010 with strong performances by both our carrier and enterprise divisions. The carrier networks division reported a 14% increase in revenue over the same period last year due to a number of factors, including increased deployments of products for broadband connectivity, increased deployments of products for business Ethernet connectivity driven by network convergence and the accelerating need for higher bandwidth, an increased demand for network aggregation products as carriers scale their infrastructure to increase network capacity, and a general improvement of the telecom spending environment.
Our enterprise networks division reported a strong performance in its internetworking category. This was aided by growth in both its carrier and VAR channels and as a result we reported an 18% increase in revenues for the division over the same period last year.
During the first quarter our combined growth areas, broadband access, internetworking, and optical access, delivered yet again, growing an impressive 45% year over year. Taking a closer look at these areas, broadband access revenue grew 64% over the prior year, led by the Total Access 5000. The company benefited from continued share gains from Tier 2 and Tier 3 customers as well as an increase in shipments to our Tier 1 accounts.
Also of note during the quarter were strong contributions by our Total Access 1100 and 1200 series, fiber to the node products. We are pleased that both the Total Access 5000 and our fiber to the node products continued to gain momentum across all carrier classes and application sets.
As previously mentioned in internetworking led growth in the enterprise segment with a 45% increase in revenue over the same quarter in 2009. This increase was a result of good product strength throughout the internetworking portfolio, and meaningful market share gains within the competitive carrier space, as well as a benefit of the recovery in the IT sector.
During the quarter we achieved carrier certification for new applications and continued to add new resellers to our VAR channel base. Overall the demand of our internetworking products was driven by continued conversion towards Ethernet services and gains in market share from incumbent suppliers.
Optical access reported a 6% increase over the same period last year as results were impacted by typical seasonality in the baseline business. However customer activity around wireless backhauls increased through the quarter.
As expected HDSL declined 7% when compared to the first quarter of 2009. Now moving on to a broader discussion of the second quarter, in general we expect the momentum of the first quarter to continue, marked by strong performances from all of our growth categories.
In broadband access we anticipate our Total Access 5000 platform will make meaningful progress in new deployments in addition to market share gains in existing customers. We anticipate increased shipments of Total Access 5000 and our fiber to the node products accelerated by market share wins in Tier 2 and Tier 3 accounts and new application deployments within Tier 1 markets.
In internetworking momentum will be driven by incremental application wins in both Tier 1 and competitive carrier accounts, as well as a continual increase in our VAR presence with the addition of new channel partners.
In optical access as previously mentioned an increase in customer activity leads us to expect an increase in revenues for this category in the second quarter. Moving on to our traditional product lines, although we expect HDSL to decline for the year in the high single to low teens percentage range, activity around wireless backhaul suggests the first half of the year will not see that level of decline.
We will continue to review our outlook on this product line as the year unfolds. As mentioned on our previous conference call the broadband stimulus package holds the potential of having a material impact on the company's revenue, although the timing and magnitude of this impact remains uncertain.
During the quarter we were awarded several projects aligned with this program and we believe orders will be forthcoming as stimulus funding is released. Looking forward in our industry and what we expect for the future, we anticipate an accelerated shift from TDM to Ethernet architectures fueled by the growing need for bandwidth that is resulting from the rapid adoption of applications such as VoIP, IP TV, and internet enabled mobile devices.
In addition carriers will increasingly deploy fiber deeper into their access networks and deploy newer technologies to leverage their current infrastructure in order to accelerate broad based deployment and alleviate access bottlenecks.
We show that ADTRAN is well positioned to address this transition with a broad portfolio of solutions that meet both carrier and enterprise customer needs. We believe we are uniquely positioned with a full portfolio of fiber and copper technologies with long standing channels to market for these [barrier] customer classes.
At this time I would like to turn things over to Jim Matthews to provide you with the financial details for the quarter. Following Jim's comments we will open the floor for questions.
Jim Matthews
Thank you Tom, and good morning to everyone. Revenue for the first quarter increased 15% to $127 million compared to $110.4 million in Q1 of 2009. Broadband access product revenues for Q1 2010 increased 64% to a record level of $36.4 million compared to $22.2 million for the Q1 of 2009.
Internetworking product revenues for Q1 of 2010 increased 45% to $22.2 million compared to $15.3 million for Q1 of 2009. Optical access product revenues for Q1 of 2010 increased to $11.3 million compared to $10.7 million for Q1 of 2009.
Carrier systems revenues for Q1 of 2010 increased 36% to $58.1 million compared to $42.7 million for Q1 of 2009. Business networking revenues for Q1 of 2010 increased 32% to $26.5 million compared to $20 million for Q1 of 2009. Lube access revenues were $42.5 million for Q1 of 2010 compared to $47.6 million for Q1 2009.
HDSL product revenues were $39.9 million for Q1 of 2010 compared to $42.9 million for Q1 of 2009. As a result of the above carrier networks division revenues for Q1 of 2010 increased 14% to $99.5 million compared to $87.1 million for Q1 of 2009.
Enterprise networks division revenues for Q1 of 2010 increased 18% to $27.5 million compared to $23.3 million for Q1 2009. International revenue was $6.7 million in Q1 of 2010 compared to $6.9 million in Q1 of 2009.
To provide the reporting of each of these categories we have published them in our Investors Relations webpage at www.adtran.com. Gross margin was 59.3% of revenue for Q1 of 2010 compared to 61.1% for Q1 2009. Research and development expenses were $22.8 million for Q1 of 2010 compared to $20.9 million for Q1 of 2009.
This increase in expense was primarily related to an increase in customer specific projects. Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $27.2 million for Q1 of 2010 compared to $23.7 million for Q1 of 2009, and this increase in expense was primarily related to an increase in selling activities in the US and abroad.
Stock based compensation expense net of tax was $1.5 million for Q1 of 2010 compared to $1.6 million for Q1 of 2009. All other income net of interest expense for Q1 of 2010 was $2.9 million compared to a loss of $2.3 million in Q1 of 2009.
As you will recall during the first quarter of 2009 the company recorded net realized investment losses of $3.2 million and this investment portfolio primarily relating to other than temporary impairments of marketable securities as a result of significant declines in the equity securities markets in that quarter.
The company's income tax provision rate was 35.7% for the first quarter of 2010 compared to 26.3% for the first quarter of 2009. The tax provision rate for the first quarter of 2010 was higher due to delays in legislation to extend the benefit for research tax credits for the year 2010.
In the first quarter of 2009 the company recognized their usual benefit from research tax credits. Also during the first quarter of 2009 the company completed a review of this estimated tax deduction for the years 2005, 2006, and 2007 related to Section 199 of the Internal Revenue Code. This review resulted in a $1.7 million benefit being recorded in the first quarter of 2009 reducing the company's income tax provision for that quarter.
The increase in tax deductions was attributable to an increase in the calculated dollar value of domestic content of products we manufactured for those years. Earnings per share assuming dilution for Q1 of 2010 were $0.29 compared to $0.24 for Q1 of 2009. Inventories were $47.8 million at quarter end, and net trade accounts receivables were $74.1 million at quarter end resulting in DSO of 53 days for the first quarter of 2010 compared to 46 days for the first quarter of 2009.
Unrestricted cash and marketable securities totaled $325 million at quarter end after paying $5.6 million in dividends during the first quarter and after repurchasing 478,000 shares of common stock for $10.3 million.
Due to the book and ship nature of our business and the timing of near-term revenues associated with large projects it is our policy not to give specific guidance for the quarter or for the year. We would like to give color to help you formulate your views on our near-term business outlook. We expect second quarter revenues to be up high single-digit percent on a sequential basis.
At this revenue level we expect second quarter operating expenses to be approximately flat on a sequential basis. We believe the larger factors impacting the revenue we realize for the year will be the following: spending levels at our Tier 1 and Tier 2 carrier customers; the adoption rate of our Total Access 5000 platform; upgrades for wireless infrastructure; and the award and timing of broadband stimulus funding to program participants.
For the year we believe we will execute in a range consistent with our historic operating model at the achieved revenue level.
Tom Stanton
Thank you Jim, at this point I think we're ready to open it up for any questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from the line of Unspecified Analyst
Unspecified Analyst
A couple of quick questions, on the internetworking clearly we've seen that grow as you penetrate the carrier VAR channel more and more, can you give us a sense as to where we are on that scale, are we half way through and there's still more businesses and segments to get through and so from sheer penetration of further VARs especially the carriers, that we can continue to see that grow or are we starting to see, at what point are we going to start seeing the level of VARs level out and then its pure share gains from a perspective of same store sales as opposed to just further penetration. And then some follow-ups as well, if you can just give us the 10% customer.
Tom Stanton
As far as the, I think you mentioned both carrier customers and VARs which are to us are two distinctly different channels, from a carrier perspective we are, we have approvals that are relatively broad based and two of the big [inaudible]] and then one of the [inaudible] we are no where near as far along, so we think there's a whole lot of potential in that one carrier and really in the other carriers we're by no means the dominant supplier.
And we continue to get approval. As I mentioned in my notes that we got approvals last quarter. We expect additional approvals for applications this quarter. Some of those approvals are things like for the first time actually being able to sell our IP T products, our communication products, into some of the [inaudible] so we think we're fairly early on in that phase.
As far as VARs we are definitely at the beginning stages. We have a couple of thousand or so right now, that number will grow over the next two to three years and at the same time we're also continuing to look at the type of VARs that we have and make sure that the players that are in the program are the ones that are able to produce.
Unspecified Analyst
Can you give year over year as to how the VARs have grown.
Tom Stanton
I don't have it right off the top of my head, I can give you kind of a sense. Let's say three years ago we were looking at a very strong, we were looking in excess of 50% and I would say its probably at this point in time moderated to a probably 30% mid 30% range, but there again that's just my sense. I don't have the number in front of me.
Jim Matthews
Ten percent customers were AT&T at 18%. Verizon was 11% for the quarter and Quest was 23% for the quarter.
Unspecified Analyst
So there's a lot of your 1100's went into, when you look at the, you mentioned share gains in Tier 2 and Tier 3, is that primarily with the 1100's or the TA 5000, can you go into some details on some of the customers you're seeing share gains at and is that for order activity or for actual revenue placed and have you gauged that and what types of metrics do you use to measure those share gains.
Tom Stanton
Well for one we can take a look at the 5000 in the Tier 2's for some spaces is very new so we know for instance in one of the larger Tier 2's we weren't selling into the 5000 into an IP T slam or IP T application a year ago and we are now so and there was an incumbent supplier so in those cases we're definitely picking up share on things that we weren't even playing in before.
As far as, I really hate to get into names but I will tell you we made significant headway, there's a finite number of what we call Tier 2, I think our number is up to about five right now. And we made significant gains at at least half of those as far as real incremental movement there. And that has been centered around the 5000.
We fully expect this year to see kind of different movement or additional movement in the fiber to the node space in some of those carriers as we go through the year.
Unspecified Analyst
And do you know if you were brought in as a second carrier to the incumbent in each case or were you given a geography that was yours where you are the primary carrier and can therefore go into the incumbent's positioning on the rest of those Tier 2's.
Tom Stanton
I'm not aware of a geographic breakdown in general, I'm not aware of a geographic breakdown so I think our attitude is if we can go and provide value to the entire footprint that's what we're trying to do and I haven't heard that we're going to be relegated to a particular state or region.
Your next question comes from the line of Blair King – Avondale Partners
Blair King – Avondale Partners
Just a couple of quick questions here, one I think you had mentioned in your prepared remarks that OpEx might stay, well is at least expected to stay flat for the balance of this year, but we have seen the R&D line trend up a little higher over the past couple of quarters, in fact over the past several quarters, and if there's any way you could provide a little color around what that entails and particularly is that focused on international opportunities or how should we think about your R&D budget.
Jim Matthews
First of all my comments in regards to OpEx were only in regards to the second quarter. Now in terms of engineering costs, yes they have increased and in, they have related in large part to domestic opportunities, but we are seeing growing activity for international opportunities as well. And as far as R&D going through the rest of the year the way I'd like to talk about that is probably on a level of total OpEx.
We do expect OpEx to increase year over year this year but again we do not expect it to increase as much as revenue. So that's how we're managing OpEx overall. We're probably going to see some level of increase in R&D in latter quarters but again its with the focus to maintain that sort of model that I just mentioned.
Blair King – Avondale Partners
And then obviously with stimulus now becoming a little bit clearer at least in terms of when funds may be released could you give us any sort of backdrop in terms of what needs to happen at ADTRAN logistically to support or fulfill incremental demand and what the supply chain might look like there and also from a CapEx perspective if there's test equipment that needs to be added to turn up lines or what the plan is to fulfill the demand.
Tom Stanton
In general I would say you're not going to see a big shift. We have the test equipment in place and although we continue to add to that base of test equipment there's not a particular application that would drive a significant amount of new test equipment. In fact I think some of our incumbent customers are probably some of the most difficult testers in the world.
So I think we're set up there. From a supply chain perspective we have a lot of flexibility. We have been able to handle very big jumps in near-term increases in the past and we think that we're well set up for that. If you see an increase in anything it may be in field level support but at this point in time we're not envisioning that to be a requirement.
Your next question comes from the line of Ari Bensinger – Standard & Poor's
Ari Bensinger – Standard & Poor's
Looking at the HDSL line its certainly benefiting from backhaul activity and I'm just interested in the comment you made about at least for the first half you shouldn't see the type of decline that you'd expect for the year for the high single-digits and low teens, what makes you think that this trend would sort of decelerate to see that type of decline at the end of the year given the strong start for the beginning of the year and the trends of wireless backhaul seem to be strengthening.
Tom Stanton
That's a very legitimate point and I think the reason you're seeing us cautious about talking about the second half has to be centered for us around the history that we've had where we have seen carriers come in very strong in one quarter and then come in very light in the next quarter, so its more centered around the lumpiness of that HDL has exhibited in the past is driving us to really kind of not look too far beyond our headlights.
So we feel very good about the second quarter but we have really not a whole lot of inkling about the third quarter and probably won't until we get closer to the end of the second and that, if you look at our HDSL numbers in the past and definitely our HDSL numbers on a customer by customer basis you can see a fairly wide variation in order and pattern.
Ari Bensinger – Standard & Poor's
And then in the optical access segment there was a drop off quarter to quarter, you mentioned seasonality, what type of rebound are you expecting going forward and what's the outlook for that division, maybe if you could give a little color for the full year.
Tom Stanton
It is to some extent on a similar dynamic as HDSL which is wireless backhaul spend for us has been choppy and we've seen that. So its another case where we feel good about the second quarter. We feel good about the momentum at this point in time but we're going to, here again, try to stay within our headlights and not project too much into the third and fourth quarter until we get closer to those periods of time.
We do expect optical to be up sequentially, we expect optical to be up year over year in the second quarter but that's about as far out as we want to look at this point.
Your next question comes from the line of Michael Genovese - Soleil Securities
Michael Genovese - Soleil Securities
Can you tell us, did you recognize stimulus what you would characterize as stimulus revenues in the first quarter.
Jim Matthews
We did not.
Michael Genovese - Soleil Securities
And would you expect any at this point before say the fourth quarter of this year and would that, would you think that the fourth quarter might be an inflection point there.
Jim Matthews
I think a lot of that depends on the timing of funding being released and our latest information is that funding on round one will begin to be released within the next several weeks. Now that's what we're hearing and as you know there's been delays in the past so I think its really dependent on the [inaudible] funding.
Michael Genovese - Soleil Securities
So in terms of round two though would you expect round two funding still in the fourth quarter, is that the right way to think about it.
Tom Stanton
What we're talking about now is round one funding which is taking longer than many people had forecasted and I'm not sure that we will have gained any efficiency in the way that we're running the program in round two so I wouldn't expect a quick turnaround on that.
Your next question comes from the line of Sanjiv Wadhwani - Stifel Nicolaus
Sanjiv Wadhwani - Stifel Nicolaus
Just to follow-up on that just to confirm the Q2 guidance does not include any broadband stimulus, right.
Jim Matthews
That is correct.
Sanjiv Wadhwani - Stifel Nicolaus
And then just general question on Quest, obviously very strong and looks like they're using you for multiple applications, I'm just curious if you could talk about for the rest of the year do you expect that strength to continue, any sort of color there would be helpful.
Tom Stanton
I really can't give you customer specific outlook on Quest. I would rather talk more about the entire products that's, with the 5000 we are expecting momentum through this year. Now, we have pretty much every large carrier in the US is using it for something or another and what we're seeing and I think the momentum that makes us bullish on the 5000 is we're seeing the applications really start to come online and not just in the Tier 3, not just in the Tier 2 where we're picking up good market share, but also in the Tier 1 where we have been working for a couple of years now on getting these applications brought to market.
And I think you'll see it in more than one carrier where you'll actually see, more than one Tier 1 carrier in Q2 where you're going to actually see some realistic momentum in the 5000. And then the 5000 will typically see seasonality I would guess. Its fairly early for us at the end of the year, but with all of the other things going on in this area, we may surpass that and I think we actually did that in the fourth quarter of last year.
In fiber to the node products which is our 1100 and 1200 series, we absolutely see seasonality in that product and it tends to tail off at some point in the third quarter and then have a lower fourth quarter profile. Here again though, I mentioned earlier that we have some Tier 2 accounts that are very serious about deploying that series of product or variance of that series of products that will hopefully start up some time this year, so that may skew that some.
But the typical profile is that decline in the fourth quarter.
Your next question comes from the line of Todd Koffman - Raymond James
Todd Koffman - Raymond James
Just on the Total Access 5000 last quarter in December you said it broke through 10% of revenue, can you give us some sense of the contribution in the March quarter, was it up sequentially.
Tom Stanton
I mentioned that it was, that it broke through the 10% level and I think I also mentioned, I didn't want to talk about that anymore because we had kind of achieved that level and from a competitive perspective I'd rather not talk specifically about that other than to say we had good momentum. There's no, I will say and I'd rather, I'd like that to be the kind of what final piece is on this is that we were of course above the 10% level in Q1 and we expect it to remain that for quite a long period of time.
Todd Koffman - Raymond James
Just as a follow-up then on that particularly coming off the [inaudible] offering, and the disparity and profitability is the pricing environment today about what its been for that product and product line the last few quarters or have you seen any change in the pricing environment.
Tom Stanton
We haven't seen really a change in the overall environment, the 5000 is one, because of the truly the underlying design of it, I think that we've got a good cost competitive product that gives us a lot of flexibility so for the most part where we're seeing changes we believe are driving those changes in order to grab market share but I would say fundamentally the pricing environment is the same.
Your next question comes from the line of Rich Valera – Needham & Company
Rich Valera – Needham & Company
I was wondering if you could clarify where you expect HDSL to go on a sequential basis.
Tom Stanton
Sequentially we expect HDSL, it's a good question and I guess we didn't cover that and I'm not going to cover it here. I think we want to leave it at the, what we said, which is it was down year over year 7%. We had implied and in fact I think had stated on previous calls we expected for the year, 9%, I think we said high single, low double-digits.
We would expect on a year over year comparison then in the second quarter that it would be less than 7% down and I think that's a very safe bet. I think, I wouldn't be a bit surprised at this point in time to see us actually do better than that 7% range.
Rich Valera – Needham & Company
I was wondering if you would be willing to comment on your position at Century Link, they used to be a 10% customer, I guess when, before [Embark] merged with CenturyTel, and just wondering if you can say how close to a 10% customer Century Link is and how you feel about your competitive position there.
Tom Stanton
We feel very good. I think that there's probably some confusion as to what happened with Century Link and Embark, we have not lost any momentum in Century Link over some period of time and I'll step you back to Embark. When we were doing business with Embark and they were buying some of our broadband products and really they were a very good customer and bought just about everything that we sold.
We had two pieces of business with them, we had the Telco business and then we had the distribution business. Coincidence or around the same time as the Century Link merger happened they sold the distribution business to another partner so that business is no longer in our Century Link total number and actually if you look at Century Link as a Telco business, non-distribution has actually been doing very well and kind of our new entry point with the 5000 which is something that we weren't selling in any numbers to them a year ago.
So kind of this, our ability to actually open this up has actually done very well for us on pretty much any metric. We had a very good quarter with them in the first quarter and we expect the continued growth going forward but I have heard the perception that there was this big downfall and that somehow we had lost market share, that's absolutely not the case. What had happened is they had sold their distribution base that was no longer factored into our Embark number.
Rich Valera – Needham & Company
Is it fair to say that you think you're sort of at a relatively early stage with the TA 5000 in terms of penetration of that Telco side of the business.
Tom Stanton
Absolutely its fair to say that.
Your next question comes from the line of Nikos Theodosopoulos - UBS
Nikos Theodosopoulos - UBS
Just a couple of questions, on the Quest revenues the disclosures you gave last quarter and this quarter, that customer was up about $7 million sequentially. How broad based was that sequential increase. Should we look at as vastly the fiber to the node products or are there other drivers in that sequential increase.
Tom Stanton
Here again, customer specific things are very difficult but let me see if I can give some color and, we sell a broad base of equipment to Quest so we sell fiber to the node products, we have just recently towards tail end of last year started selling 5000's to them. We of course sell HDSL to them and we sell optical to them.
I think in general trying to see how I can give you more color on that, but I would say the bigger players, the ones that have been driving the revenues over the past, or kind of what's driving the revenue from Q4 to Q1 which is pretty much what we expected actually. The big incremental piece to us and the one that we're expecting going forward to continue to drive things we're very hopeful on the fiber to the node getting into new applications with them but really the 5000 has got an awful lot of potential with them.
Nikos Theodosopoulos - UBS
That's still in early stage there.
Tom Stanton
Nikos Theodosopoulos - UBS
And one other question on I guess I realize its tough answering questions on customers so whatever insight you can give but AT&T was down meaningfully sequentially for you and obviously the opti product was down meaningfully for you, and yet there's a lot of well public disclosure by AT&T how they're ramping up significantly their wireless spend and their wireless backhaul spend. So can you comment on why you're not seeing as much of that. Is there opportunities for you to get a better share in what they're doing there in wireless backhaul.
Tom Stanton
I think there are near-term opportunities and then there are longer-term opportunities and the near-term opportunities would be centered around our opti product line and then what's going on with HDSL and if I had to try to characterize Q1 and kind of how we rationalize what's going on, its, we have seen them be a very targeted on either geographic or demographic or some other rationale that there's one technology versus another for a period of time.
And we talked about that throughout last year as we were seeing HDSL do what HDSL did and seeing optical do what optical did. And that's really the only kind of color that I can put around this that makes sense to us. We're very engaged in trying to help them alleviate whatever problems they may have and we're very hopeful that we'll see good momentum this year but its, for us its sporadic.
And yet we do think we'll play in the near-term position. We have a longer-term thing that we're trying to get done that hopefully will be successful with but that won't have an impact this year. The longer-term stuff is farther than that.
Your next question comes from the line of Steve Ferranti – Stevens Incorporated
Steve Ferranti – Stevens Incorporated
Great job on the quarter, I wanted to zoom out a little bit in terms of the TA 5000 penetration within Tier 1's, could you give us your sense for where this product is in terms of penetration of that particular customer base. I know thus far Tier 2's and Tier 3's you've seen fairly significant adoption. It feels like we're in early stages of Tier 1's starting to pick it up. Any sort of color you could give around that dynamic would be helpful. And then are these retrofits or are these green field applications where you're seeing this adoption.
Tom Stanton
Where we are is different upon with the different carrier but I would say in every case we would be early on. With Verizon we're very early and we're hoping that we're going to see some really good things coming out of them this year. With Quest we're early but they have adopted and one of the things that I have to step back and remind you is that we have in each of these multiple applications and they all have their own timeline.
But even having said that Verizon I would say we're still very early and we're hoping to see momentum this year. Quest we're farther along on let's say half of the applications and we've already seen some good things happen and we expect that to continue on. And AT&T I would say we're still very early. We came out of the gate with Ethernet over copper. It is still slow going as they continue to work on how their operationalizing and how they're actually going to deploy it.
I think we saw some good, in general I think everybody saw some good news from them in regards to what their SMB push is. There are two other applications that are yet out of the gate that we are hopeful will be out of the gate some time in the near future which will add to that momentum but I would say they're not as far along as Quest and I would say even to some extent they may not be as far along in a meaningful momentum push from where they are today as Verizon.
Steve Ferranti – Stevens Incorporated
One quick follow-up, can you give us any sense given the level of discussions you had with customers this year, do you have any thoughts on what your seasonal pattern might look like this year just because we're coming off of what would be sort of an abnormal year in 2009. Do you think that changes the shape factor or the seasonality that you might see in 2010.
Tom Stanton
There again another good question, our sense right now is no. We had a good Q1 and everything at this point in time points to us that Q2 will follow the kind of traditional path and nothing from what we're seeing right now would say Q3 would be any different than that, so my initial answer at this point in time would be no.
We would expect it to follow our historical trend.
Your next question comes from the line of Vivek Arya – BofA/Merrill Lynch
Vivek Arya – BofA/Merrill Lynch
Just to go back to this Tier 1 carrier question, if my math is right the sales to AT&T and Verizon were down sequentially and year on year. I also see the same trend if I add up sales for the last four quarters and compare them to the prior four quarters, so most of the Tier 1 sales growth in the US seems to be coming from just Quest. So the question is why have sales to AT&T and Verizon been weak and how sustainable is the growth at Quest.
Tom Stanton
I didn't understand the first part of your math so I'll try to answer what I did understand. I think actually first of all we, all of our customer bases saw a decline, maybe other than Quest although I didn't go back and look that explicitly as we entered a recession. So, we did see a decline and I would say it probably wasn't just Verizon and AT&T specific.
And I think as we came out of last year we saw momentum in both AT&T and Quest, less so at Verizon because our predominant sales to Verizon are still HDSL and our kind of forward going plan for Verizon included other products, predominantly the 5000 which I had just spoke about. So that's the profile that we see. I don't know if that's different than what you had said.
Vivek Arya – BofA/Merrill Lynch
If I look at the second half and I realize that second half is some ways away, but if let's say the fiber to the node applications you mentioned, there could be some seasonality there and AT&T and Verizon at least in the last four quarters have not picked up and I think you gave the reasons why and then I think even HDSL you were saying could go down single-digits to maybe even low double-digits, then is it fair to say that most of the second growth is predicated on maybe broadband stimulus or additional TA 5000 pick up.
Tom Stanton
L1 broadband stimulus, although we haven't really talked about what the second half pick up would be, but our plans in Q2 and right now when we look at Q3 and I talked about it having the profile of following the typical seasonal pattern that did not include any input of 5000's. What will drive the growth though if we look at Q2 and Q3 will be broadband access in general which is the 5000 as well as our fiber to the node products which we fully expect to be up and not just up at a particular customer.
As I've also mentioned we have additional customers that are buying that and actually coming online. We expect internetworking to be up and we expect optical to be up.
Vivek Arya – BofA/Merrill Lynch
And just last one, OpEx was a little higher than expected and I believe you gave some of the reasons, were there any run offs during the quarter or if there's a new base and OpEx could be sort of flat to up this year from these levels on a quarterly basis.
Jim Matthews
As I said, we think Q2 will be approximately flat. Q3 and Q4 I think is going to be dependent a bit on the revenue levels but overall OpEx if we look at OpEx overall, we expect it to increase year over year for the total year but at a lesser rate than revenue.
Your next question comes from the line of Simon Leopold - Morgan, Keegan
Simon Leopold - Morgan, Keegan
I wanted to ask two questions, one on gross margin and one on the TA 5000. First talking about the TA 5000 in the past you've talked a little bit about applications for it and understanding that there is a diverse set, could you tell us what the mix was in the March quarter in terms of what applications were driving the strength in the product and maybe back up a little bit and talk about how you see the applications trending.
Tom Stanton
I haven't really thought about what the trending profile would be because we tend to look at the future quarters in an aggregate basis, but if I look at the March quarter all of the major applications and I characterize a major application as being Ethernet aggregation, just broadband deployment and broadband deployment being IP D slam type deployment, and carrier Ethernet, all three of those segments were up.
So it was fairly broad based.
Simon Leopold - Morgan, Keegan
I guess one of the things that I'm wondering is, is I think there's been a lot more focus on the role of the product as a mobile backhaul platform and I think on the last earning's calls you had mentioned seeing applications for providing enterprise Ethernet services, and I think I'm really trying to get a sense of the mix between those two types of deployment where they're really Ethernet platforms but different application in my mind.
Tom Stanton
I would say, my sense would be at this point in time that mobile backhaul is not driving the 5000 that is it more carrier Ethernet, IP TV delivery, and just increasing for instance backhaul bandwidth and aggregation, you can almost think of it as a middle mile type product. So its more centered around that then mobile.
I would think that's driving it more than mobile backhaul at this point.
Simon Leopold - Morgan, Keegan
Great that's what I was thinking and glad I wasn't too far off. The other topic was around gross margin, I don't think you commented on expectations for gross margin for the June quarter and I just wanted to revisit this topic from kind of a bigger picture perspective in that I think in the past you've suggested that your gross margins among your products are all pretty tight with maybe the exception of the net vanna product line being a little bit better than the group. Could you just delve into that a little bit in terms of talking about how much of a mix shift might effect gross margin.
Jim Matthews
As far as gross margins go we continue to anticipate that they will be in the range of the high 50's for the foreseeable future. The gross margins between the products are fairly close and are certainly not large enough to drive it meaningfully one way or the other. So the larger thing that drives gross margin really is expediting costs.
And that's what we try to manage the most as we go through a quarter and as you looked at last year first quarter gross margins were at a record level that you might recall last year the first quarter was very linear in terms of shipments. They were not as linear first quarter this year so and really, are they as linear as what we saw last year.
So that's why we continue to anticipate high 50's on gross margin.
Your next question comes from the line of Amir Rozwadowski - Barclays Capital
Amir Rozwadowski - Barclays Capital
I wondered if we could shift gears towards the enterprise spending environment, certainly it seems as though last year some of the growth that you saw in the enterprise spending environment was particularly notable given the fact that we hadn't seen sort of enterprise as picking up spending and in fact cutting off spending last year. As we look to this year it seems as though you are seeing bits and pieces of recovery in IT spending and I was wondering if you could comment on sort of your outlook for the spending environment and whether or not you'll be able to sort of leverage some of the share gains that you had in the prior year.
Tom Stanton
I will tell you its difficult for us to kind of extrapolate what our numbers are on the overall environment so what we can talk most about is our numbers although our sense is, is that we've seen an improvement in the IT environment in general. And I will also say its difficult for us to be able to segment market share gains from an overall increase in the pie.
But we think we'll benefit and why we're optimistic is because we do think we'll benefit this year from both of those items. In the enterprise segment internetworking is driven both by carrier direct sales, as well as value added reseller sales. And if you look at our channel mix between the carriers and the VARs we actually saw a good pick up in both of those segments in Q1 which as we entered the downturn last year was not the case.
We saw a decrease actually in both and then we saw the carrier kind of pick up a little bit and the VAR kind of stayed flat to down. That actually has shifted coming into this year. We're actually seeing some strength on both sides of that equation. The other piece is the market share gains where I had mentioned in my notes and I think its easy to miss but we are not only picking up new applications within the Tier 1 accounts but we think we're making some meaningful market share gains within the competitive carrier base or the [C lex].
So, there are some carriers out there that can move some numbers in that division because they sell an awful lot of equipment to small and medium business and end up being kind of the entry point for us and we're seeing some good momentum there.
Amir Rozwadowski - Barclays Capital
So then is it fair to say looking out with some of the share gains and sort of recovery in spending, could you find yourself in a position where your enterprise growth in fact accelerates this year versus 2009.
Tom Stanton
Yes, absolutely.
Your next question comes from the line of Jim Suva - Citi
Jim Suva - Citi
Congratulations on a great quarter, you gave a lot of commentary around you expecting normal seasonality to benefit the company and in your sales outlook of the high single-digits here that's clearly manifest, however when I look back historically factually of the past five years, four of those five years have been up double-digit percent and the average of the past five years have been up 11.5%, so I would almost consider and impose to you why isn't normal seasonality up 11.5% if that's what it was the past five years.
Tom Stanton
First of all there are variations in those numbers and those variations have to do with momentum in any particular quarter from, and it can be from a particular customer. So the numbers that we post are small enough and we can be influenced by a large order one way or another. So when we look at what it is that we're guiding for in the next quarter we tend not necessarily to fall back just on what we have done historically on a percentage basis, but really trying to understand from a product, upwards as to what we think we're going to do.
And then we kind of, for the traditional products and things that we don't have that same level of visibility then we've got to fall back onto what is seasonality. We had a good quarter in Q1 and you may argue that that's temporary and I'll look at Q2 a little, I guess we'll find out in three months, but I understand your point.
Jim Suva - Citi
Second now on a different topic, when the broadband stimulus money starts to be deployed and you start to get orders from that, do you think you'll be able to receive and ship and produce those orders under normal shipping terms or do you think that you'll have to incur additional expediting of shipping and what I'm trying to get at is do you expect those monetary funds and orders to be similar to the company's high 59% gross margins, or do you think that they'd be a little bit lower because of expediting.
Tom Stanton
My sense is that they would be in the high 50's range. Its not that we haven't been doing some expediting over the last three quarters, so first of all we're getting better at that and I don't see this being substantially different then that. So I would expect it to fall in the same framework.
Jim Matthews
I would agree.
Your next question comes from the line of Lawrence Harris - CL King
Lawrence Harris - CL King
If I could add my congratulations relative to the results for the quarter, looking at the historical performance over the last few years in the optical segment it looks like historically your third quarter has been the best performance for this segment and I was thinking is there a specific reason for that, perhaps related to outdoor construction in the summer months, providing connections at the sell sites, and if so could we see that again happen this year.
Tom Stanton
That is true for the 6100, our optical product set in general, but I think that you'll also see if you look at pretty much any other segment that we have that's also the case so, and I do think there are a lot of environmental factors that play into that. I think its easier for them to actually do that. There are times that that will be slightly different from one big initiative or another. But at this point in time we would expect the 6100, our optical product line and all of our products, we don't have any reason to say that that wouldn't be the profile going forward.
With the exception that we are still cautious on HDSL because we do expect a stronger first half than we initially thought. So we're going to kind of wait and see and kind of revise that view as we get into, towards the tail end of next quarter.
Lawrence Harris - CL King
So stronger first half and then you'll have a wait and see attitude I guess in terms of the second half on HDSL and then take another look at the guidance at that point, is that a fair assessment.
Tom Stanton
Yes, I think what we will try to be more, as explicit as we can on the HDSL products this time next quarter and the reality is is we don't know what third quarter is going to be and the thing that has got us maybe a little conservative on the way we're looking at it is we have seen fairly wild swings that would not necessarily line up with normal seasonal patterns in the past.
Because customers can do a lot with that product in a short period of time. They can deploy very quickly. The turn time on that product is very quick so its just a real easy hammer to swing. If they decide to swing at one point in time and not another then that would wipe out the typical seasonal pattern.
But what you had mentioned about seasonality is absolutely true for most of our businesses.
Your final question comes from the line of Hasan Imam - Thomas Weisel Partners
Hasan Imam - Thomas Weisel Partners
Just curious about the Tier 2 and Tier 3 customer spending, did see an uptick this quarter but how do you explain that in terms of the actual broadband stimulus, do you see Tier 2 and Tier 3 customers holding back a piece of that spending waiting for broadband stimulus to kind of come in and spend part of that. How do you really define that uptick in spending.
Tom Stanton
Good question, and I think the way that we view it is there's more clarity in that market as to who's going to apply for money and who's not going to apply for money. So the people that have decided not to apply for money have decided to go ahead and move on and I think we're seeing the benefit of those customers right now going ahead with the plans that they may have been on hold for some period of time as they've kind of made that internal decision that its something they don't want to participate in.
I would say that there's still some demand out there that is waiting on stimulus funding, but we know that for a fact because we have customers that as I have mentioned have selected us and have not started spending yet. But I would kind of characterize the increase that we saw based off of more predominantly the ones that have decided not to move forward with, they know that they're definitive about that and they're starting to place purchase orders because of that.
Hasan Imam - Thomas Weisel Partners
And I have just one more question on market share gains, you had mentioned you saw some of this happen this quarter as well, how do you kind of break out what percentage if you will of the revenue increment you've seen this quarter has been from that versus just the overall pie expanding.
Tom Stanton
Its difficult for us to do. Its easy for us to look at market share gains if we look at a customer that we were not in and now we are in. So that's without a doubt a piece of business that we would not have gotten before. Trying to figure out exactly what that pie was last year versus this year except for very few instances, is impossible for us.
So we feel better about the overall environment and some of that has to do with your previous question what we think customers are kind of gotten off the fence and decided what they're doing so they're starting to spend money, but to, that's why we're, we think that there's been kind of an internal change in the mindset of those customers to start spending so the market itself is bigger than it was last year.
But for the most case its impossible for us to quantify what that market was last year because we weren't playing in that market last year.
Hasan Imam - Thomas Weisel Partners
One confirmation, are you still confirming on the 25% OpInc level for the year.
Jim Matthews
All we said is that again we expect revenue to increase, we do expect OpEx to increase but OpEx not as high of increase as revenue. I think all we said is we expect to be above last year in terms of our margin.
Tom Stanton
I think we've exceeded our time a little bit, so I'd like to thank everybody for joining us on the conference call and we look forward to talking to you next quarter.
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Author Tags: 1850-1900, Civil Rights, Early B.C., First Nations, Forestry, Literary Landmarks
LITERARY LOCATION: Sproat Lake
Gilbert Malcolm Sproat was a key figure in the creation of the Indian reserve system through his work with the Joint Indian Reserve Commission in British Columbia between 1876 and 1878. Earlier, Sproat wrote his classic account of life as a lumberman on Alberni Inlet entitled Scenes and Studies of Savage Life (London: 1868). In the process he gave his name to Sproat Lake, west of Port Alberni.
Sproat, the son of a crofter in the Scottish Highlands, was focused on ways to colonize the west effectively through private means in order to promote development instead of land speculation. In his book White Settler Reserve, Ryan Eyford identifies Sproat as playing a key role in advocating for group settlement and colonization. "The whitemen will teach your children to read printing," Sproat said, "and to be like themselves." In retrospect, his life and attitudes can be easily criticized. In the late 1870s he was at the forefront of the Indian Land Commission's efforts to disposses Aboriginals of their lands by inspecting and assigning Indian reservations in British Columbia, but Cole Harris has praised Sproat as a defender of Aboriginal rights in Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia (UBC Press, 2002).
Gilbert Malcolm Sproat was an energetic, literate character who can be judged harshly or favourably, as one chooses. In the 1860s, when he arrived to establish an Alberni sawmill, he distinguished himself by forcing Indians from their land in return for some trade goods worth 20 pounds. As a land speculator and lay magistrate, 'Judge Sproat' was later dubbed 'Father of the Kootenay'. Sproat founded Revelstoke, Sandon and New Denver, and in 1883 he also placed the first reserve upon the townsite of Nelson, selling the first lots there in 1888 and giving names to its main streets.
Born on a farm in southern Scotland in the County of Kircudbright on April 19, 1834, Gilbert Malcolm Sproat attended school at Borgue and Dumfries. Trained for the India Civil Service, he was hired by a London shipping firm (James Thomson & Co., aka Anderson & Co.) to build a sawmill at the head of Alberni Canal in 1860. The ship brokers had accepted advice to do so from their Victoria agent Captain Edward Stamp. At the time the importation of pitch-pine timber from the southern United Sates was blockaded by Civil War. Sproat and Stamp transported men and machinery to Alberni aboard two ships, the Woodpecker and Meg Merrilies. Upon receiving land grants from Governor James Douglas, Stamp and Sproat commenced operations of their sawmill at the mouth of the Somass River in August of 1861. Theirs was the first mill designed for export of timber products from British Columbia. Upon their arrival, Stamp and Sproat had paid local Indians for the land they appropriated with the equivalent of 20 pounds worth of trade goods.
After relations soured between the mill's owners in London and Stamp--a wheeler-dealer with his own shares in the syndicate--Sproat succeeded Stamp as the local manager for Anderson & Co. in 1862. He oversaw a fishing settlement at Alberni that exported cured fish to Callao, Peru, he married Catherine Anne Wigham in 1862 and he started an insurance business in Victoria. Until 1865, Sproat managed the export of spars to Europe and served as magistrate and Justice of the Peace from 1863 to 1865, having declined Governor Douglas' offer of a seat in the Legislative Council. As Sproat was a frequent visitor to the west coast of Vancouver Island, he was appointed by Governor James Douglas to act as Principal Customs Officer, whose duties included control of the First Nations. Sproat was not eager to become involved in provincial politics because he assumed ultimate power resided in London. "The Colonial Office," he wrote, "did not care two straws for any popular movements here: the battle was in London."
Production at the Anderson mill reached its zenith in 1863 with ten vessels loading spars and timbers simultaneously. Exports that year totalled 11,273,000 feet of sawn lumber and 1,300 spars, plus another one million feet of lumber sent to Victori. But by 1864, Sproat was desperately petitioning James Douglas for help. As early as 1863 he had reported, "to protect our large investment of capital in this place, it will be necessary for us to take up more land under our Land Grant than was thought necessary by our late Manager here, Capt. Edward Stamp." The Alberni sawmill was closed by the outset of 1865. The boom 'n' bust pattern of resource-based industry in British Columbia, begun with the trade in sea otter pelts in the late 18th century, would become the model for forestry for the next century-and-a-half.
Sproat returned to London. There Sproat established 'The London Committee for watching the affairs of British Columbia'. Essentially this was a three-man lobby group for input into the terms of union between the two colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. Sproat also tried to influence the decision as to whether the capital of the united colonies ought to be New Westminster or Victoria. His committee would also address the San Juan boundary dispute.
Throughout his life Sproat was known for his literary abilities. He frequently wrote letters to newspapers, he served as a correspondent for the London Times (1875-1877), he once declined an offer from Theodore Davie to edit a newspaper and he won a $1,000 British Empire essay prize in 1875 for his essay about British Opium Policy in India and China. Sproat translated some of Horace's odes, published a critical work on the poetry of Sir Walter Scott and completed a larger work entitled The Education of the Rural Poor in England. In 1868, based on his experiences, Sproat published his major contribution to British Columbia literature, an acount of Indian life on the west coast of Vancouver Island called Scenes and Studies of Savage Life (London, Smith, Elder & Co. 317 p.). It contains an account of a conversation between the 'Chief of the Seshalts' and Sproat himself, as the representative of the 'King-George-Men', in which Sproat responds to the chief's reluctance to cooperate. "Whether or not, the white men will come," he says. "All your people know that they are your superiors; they make the things which you value. You cannot make muskets, blankets, or bread. The whitemen will teach your children to read printing, and to be like themselves."
Upon his return to British Columbia in the 1870s, Sproat addressed Aboriginal land claims for the provincial and federal governments, serving as a 'one-man commission' until 1880. According to historian Cole Harris, Sproat became an outspoken critic of expropriations undertaken without "intelligent consent" and he maintained Aboriginals held rights to land, water, timber and fisheries. Premier George Walkem subsequently complained, "Sproat is wholly unfit for anything but verbose, voluminous, tiresome correspondence." Full of himself and critical of his superiors, Sproat resigned. His replacement Peter O'Reilly spent the next 18 years creating hundreds of Indian reserves throughout the province, mostly to the detriment of Aboriginals.
Sproat served as a magistrate again, this time in the Kootenays, from 1885 to 1890. In the summer of 1888, Sproat, as the gold commissioner and stipendary magistrate, oversaw land sales in the B.C. interior. He left government service in 1889 but remained in the Kootenays for another nine years, involved in real estate. As a result there arose a town called Sproat near Sidmouth and Mount Sproat rises to 8,000 feet near Arrowhead. On Vancouver Island, Sproat Lake and Sproat River are named after Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, as well as Sproat Bay on Tzartus Island in Barkley Sound. Sproat Lake Provincial Park was ceded to the province in 1966 by MacMillan Bloedel Limited. Before it became a provincial park it was known as Smiths Landing, after George Smith, who farmed the area.
Sproat retired to Victoria in 1898. In consultation with provincial librarians Edward Gosnell and Ethelbert Scholefield, Sproat intended to write a book called The Rise of British Dominion in the North Pacific. "History compiled, say by a committee," he wrote, "as a rule cannot be attractive or instructive." he wrote. Sproat died in Victoria on June 4, 1913 without completing his task. The owner of the Victoria Colonist, Samuel Matson, offered his son Alexander Sproat $1,000 for the manuscript but it was found to be largely illegible, eaten by mice.
Scenes and Studies of Savage Life (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1868. Reprinted as The Nootka: Scenes and Studies of Savage Life, Sono Nis Press, 1987)
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Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (born 1982)
|Prince Alexander
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|Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
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Prince Alexander of Serbia and Yugoslavia, also named Aleksandar Karađorđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Карађорђевић; born 15 January 1982 in Fairfax, Virginia, USA), is a member of the House of Karađorđević.
He is the son of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, and Princess Maria da Gloria, Duchess of Segorbe, and the fraternal twin of Prince Philip of Yugoslavia. He would be third in the line to the throne, after his elder brothers. His godparents are Queen Sofia of Spain, Constantine II, former King of Greece, and Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria.
Alexander lived in Virginia until 1984. He was educated in London and Canterbury with his twin brother. In June 2000, he completed sixth form at The King's School, Canterbury. He was awarded a BA degree in Communications and Media from the University of San Francisco in 2004. Prince Alexander was at a graduate school at an American university completing a MFA degree in Advertising (Art Direction). Currently he is working in the internet electronic publishing area in California.
On 17 July 2001, the Royal Family took up residence in the Royal Palace in Belgrade.[1] As a 4th-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, Alexander is in the line of succession to the British throne.[2]
- ^ "THE ROYAL PALACE". The Royal Family of Serbia. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ Reitwiesner, William Addams. "Persons eligible to succeed to the British Throne as of 1 Jan 2001". Retrieved 1 July 2014.
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Bazaarvoice Wins Rubbermaid
Austin-based Bazaarvoice, a supplier of ratings and review applications for ecommerce sites, reported Thursday that the Rubbermaid is using the firm's software. Financial details of the win was not disclosed. Bazaarvoice said that Rubbermaid is using the firm's ratings and review content as part of an effort to listen and respond to its customers, as well as for use by brand managers to determine which features are popular with customers.


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Rio + 20 meet must focus on social equity
Opinion article by IPC-IG's Leisa Perch published on The Shanghai Daily on 21 June 2012
The largest United Nations conference in history is happening now in Brazil. Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development is assembling more than 50,000 people and more than 130 heads of state and government.
The two main themes of Rio+20 – the green economy in the context of poverty eradication and the institutional framework for sustainable development – can help us mobilize civil society in building a new, inclusive development agenda that recognizes the differentiated responsibilities and capacities of not only countries and multilateral organizations, but also those of individuals, enterprises, grassroots movements, the media, as well as rich and poor people.
Building civil society support for a global change agenda will require immediate policy efforts that prioritize inequality reduction. The cost of inequality is clear when one is confronted with the fact that the average income of the world's richest 5 percent is 165 times higher than the poorest 5 percent.
In a world where the richest 5 percent earn in 48 hours as much as the poorest in one year, the need to reconcile growth with equity is clearly evident.
With no productive inclusion and employment opportunities for the poor and vulnerable, mounting skepticism and the bitter after-taste of the global financial-economic crises will hamper effective changes in discourse and policy.
Evidence of cyclical disequilibrium – economic, social and environmental systems out of sync – reinforces the need for new models of development and resilience. Policies which integrate the social and environmental aspects of development will be pivotal in this context.
We can neither postpone this reality nor secure a mortgage which future generations will have to pay. Policy failures from such short-sightedness have been costly – in the lives of the peoples and in the economies of the North and the South.
The foundations of a consensus around sustainable development goals would represent a significant contribution of Rio+20 for the future.
Such goals must not focus only on environmental targets; they must address critical links between human beings and nature so as to guarantee: (1) improved access to employment for marginalized groups as we "green" the economy; (2) reduced social impact of environmental crises; (3) reduced differences between urban and rural people in access to basic services, particularly water, energy and sanitation; and (4) that more renewable energy does not come at the expense of either the availability of and access to food.
There is no doubt that there is a sense of urgency at Rio+20. Twenty years ago we looked into the future and became worried about the possibilities of that future. We asked ourselves what we could do to make sure future children did not receive a bill they couldn't even imagine how they could pay.
Now, some of those children are adults in Rio+20, asking the same questions and why we did not do more. Today I heard one young lady ask the latter question in a Rio+20 side event. We have to be able to answer. The task for the next few days and weeks is therefore less about restating the priority of sustainable development and more about agreeing on how we will act if it is a priority and how soon.
Let us not only ask our leaders to make the hard choices. To turn this ship around, as a colleague Gaia Paradiso has described it, will take the entire crew as well as the passengers. We cannot just leave it to the captain(s) alone.
Our commitment should be to continue to work to find innovations and bring them to light, ones which build social capital and promote innovation, particularly engaging our youth in the dialogue and the solutions.
We also want to be better at recycling, re-using and being more carbon-neutral. We all need to do better. How will you start?
The author is policy specialist and team leader for rural and sustainable development at the UNDP Brasilia-based International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG). www.ipc-undp.org. Shanghai Daily condensed the article.
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