Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time we will begin the question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions). The first question is from Daniel Meron of RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Tom Elrich - RBC Capital Markets
Hi Ronnie and Josh, this is Tom Elrich for Daniel. Congrats on a great quarter here. I have a few questions. The first one regards to your new Ethernet product and the strategy. Could you provide us with a bit of color on how our Ethernet shipments are going along and your relationship with IBM and specifically do you expect to recognize some revenues and how should we think about the trajectory into 2010? Thanks.
Ronnie Kenneth
Thanks Tom for participating and asking the question. In respect to our Vantage 8500 product as I said we now really planting the seeds for this platform to be a growth engine for us in 2010 and beyond. So, if you are kind of asking for more color, I would say that definitely be a significant business we’ll start ramping in 2010 and not before. As now we are really building the channels as we said IBM is carrying the Vantage 8500 as part of the 1350 portfolio and we expect more OEMs to join-in the not too distant future.
Tom Elrich - RBC Capital Markets
And another question regarding [Apac] seems like the Fujitsu relationship is going I think ahead of plan. Do you expect them to continue and be 10% customer or a significant customer?
Ronnie Kenneth
Well Tom I cannot give you any kind of forward-looking statement on that, but I can definitely confirm that the relationship with Fujitsu are strong and we expect them to be significant revenue generator for us. As we move forward overall, as I said in the call, we’d see a nice ramp of business overall in Asia Pacific, not only in Japan but also China has been very good and we believe this will continue moving forward.
Tom Elrich - RBC Capital Markets
Maybe a final one on my end before I hop to the queue. Could you give us a sense on your current software mix and also what is the long-term goal if you can share some details here with us on the long-term software mix you are targeting?
Ronnie Kenneth
So, first of all the software element in our strategy is key, for two reasons; A, it helps us to differentiate our offering against the competition, our Unified Fabric Management software, the UFM, the VMA Accelerator, all and other products all enabling customers to run applications much faster in a more efficient way and creating a significant value for them in the same time that they are differentiating Voltaire offering. So, all in all it’s really a key initiative for Voltaire, we are dedicating resources to sell software in the field and anticipate moving forward without specifying a time here, our objective is for software to be probably double digit as part of our revenue mix.
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