8/5/2025

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Operator
Conference Operator

questions and comments after the presentation. It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Tom Bauman of FNKIR. Sir, the floor is yours.

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Tom Bauman
IR Representative, FNKIR

Thank you. And thank you all for joining us today. This call is being recorded and webcast live and may be accessed for at least 90 days via the ATEN Networks website, atennetworks.com. Hosting the call today are Drupal Trivedi, ATEN's President and CEO, and CFO Brian Becker. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that shortly after the market closed today, A10 Networks issued a press release announcing its second quarter 2025 financial results. Additionally, A10 published a presentation and supplemental trended financial statements. You may access the press release, presentation, and trended financial statements on the investor relations section of the company's website. During the course of today's call, management will make forward-looking statements, including statements regarding projections for future operating results, demand, industry and customer trends, macroeconomic factors, strategy, potential new products and solutions, our capital allocation strategy, profitability, expenses and investments, positioning, and our dividend program. These statements are based on current expectations and beliefs as of today, August 5th, 2025. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, some of which are beyond our control that could cause actual results to differ materially and you should not rely on them as predictions of future events. ATEN does not intend to update information contained in these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, unless required by law. For a more detailed description of these risks and uncertainties, please refer to our most recent 10-K and quarterly report on Form 10-Q. Please note, with the exception of revenue, financial measures discussed today are on a non-GAAP basis and have been adjusted to exclude certain charges. The non-GAAP financial measures are not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with GAAP and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures presented by other companies. A reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP measures can be found in the press release issued today and on the trended quarterly financial statements posted on the company's website at www.a10networks.com. Now, I'd like to turn the call over to Drupal Trivedi, President and CEO of A10 Networks.

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Drupad Trivedi
President and CEO, A10 Networks

Thank you, Tom, and thank you all for joining us today. A10 continued to deliver growth, and profitability in the second quarter. This performance demonstrates the continued validation of our strategy. We have strategically aligned our technology roadmap and go-to-market focus with the evolving cybersecurity landscape where our customers are facing increasingly complex challenges. Our solutions emphasize high performance and advanced security. two areas that are increasingly central to both the service provider and enterprise customers. This strategic focus and delivery of innovation is resonating in the market. This concentration was further validated by our recent selection by a global cloud leader to help build their future AI infrastructure, indicating that ATEN's offering is well-positioned at the intersection of today's most urgent priorities for the world's most demanding customers. Increasingly, that alignment with the key drivers of technology investment is the most important point I want to share with investors today. ATEN is exceedingly well aligned with these two primary catalysts influencing IT and infrastructure spending. artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. We believe we have the right technology, the right product roadmap, and increasingly the right go-to-market execution to fully capitalize on these trends. Our intentional diversification enhances our resilience. In the second quarter, we saw an improvement in parts of global service provider spending driven by the factors I mentioned earlier. Our balanced exposure across verticals and geographies is a core strength of our business model, and it allows us to maintain momentum while we capitalize on secular tailwinds in AI and cybersecurity. Looking at performance on a trailing 12-month basis provides a view of our underlying momentum. Total revenue grew 11% year-over-year, with enterprise up 8% and service provider revenue increasing 14%. Even after adjusting for the favorable year-over-year comparison, we believe this reflects a sustainable growth trend aligned with our strategy, and we remain comfortable in our ability to deliver annual revenue growth in the high single-digit range. our first half results are consistent with these expectations. We will continue to navigate choppy market conditions while focusing on execution and aligning investments with long-term growth expectations and business model goals. Our service provider revenue during the period benefited from improved demand from data center expansions and AI infrastructure investments. As I mentioned in the past, AI applications are power-hungry, making our solutions, which provide industry-leading efficiency in terms of throughput, low latency, and best-in-class security, more attractive as customers can achieve better ROI on those investments. We are actively leveraging this competitive advantage along with our networking expertise in opportunities for large data center projects around the world. Our EBITDA's percent of revenue grew year over year, even as we aggressively invest in new areas. As an indicator, we had two AI products win the top awards at the prestigious Interop event in Japan, competing against much larger players as well as startups. Our comprehensive ATA and DEFEND portfolio of solutions provide hybrid DDoS protection, threat intelligence, web application and bot protection, and now adds a fully featured WAP solution, all integrated into a single solution with end-to-end delivery and stronger security for mission-critical applications. Stepping back, I am increasingly confident in our strategic positioning. Our deliberate focus on aligning ATEN's growth and investment strategy with structural tailwinds of AI and cybersecurity continues to pay dividends. Our focus on systematically growing enterprise market adds another growth vector. We believe ATEN is well positioned to serve both enterprise and service provider customers employing an intentional diversification strategy that delivers resiliency in our results. We are also well diversified across regions. The business continues to effectively navigate short-term market volatility, delivering consistent profitability and returning capital to shareholders. As markets evolve, we are well positioned to outpace the market in terms of revenue growth while increasing our profitability in line with our business model. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Brian for a detailed review of the quarter. Brian?

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