Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from Tom Gunderson with Piper Jaffray.
Unidentified Analyst
Its actually Amy calling in for Tom this afternoon.
Euan Thompson
Hello Amy.
Unidentified Analyst
One quick question as far as international and domestic type order growth, you mentioned that you are seeing some strength internationally whereas on the other hand some of the other players in radiation and oncology field have noted weakness in Europe. I am wondering if you could give us any more color from your perspective on what you are seeing as far as the markets of strength or weakness in different international geographies?
Euan Thompson
Yes, it is difficult to comment on other people's perspective of the market. I mean I can comment on our own, which Europe is actually one of our high growth areas, quite definitively and I think we have somewhat of a slow start which is not unusual for Europe because European market is very sensitive to clinical data. New technologies tend to be slow to take off. I think some of our peers came into the replacement market and that market was already well established but the whole dynamic was slightly different. And how that market is affected, I really could not say, but from our perspective I think people are really seeing the clinical value and CyberKnife is a technology that essentially reduces the overall cost of treatment of cancer by avoiding the need for surgical procedure. In a price sensitive market like Europe once you have good clinical data, which we're really starting into get now, I think we could definitely expect to see this particular market grow for us. And there are signs of that definitely there right now with it.
Unidentified Analyst
Okay and then I have a follow up and at the over the last couple of quarters just done as Bob mentioned with that distributor in fact, how are they to do the install you can recognize the revenue upfront. What is the typical lead time or lag time for that those units to actually be installed.
Bob McNamara
Well really depends on the distributor but a couple of months it’s certainly reasonable, it depends on how it’s shipped. If its shipped by boat or it is shipped shift by airplane but when we ship they know where its going, they know the end customer because obviously these are very expensive units and they want to make sure that they got their money in hand or at least the money is safe that they know that they are going to get the money before we even shipped. Similarly we want to protect ourselves. So that we want to make sure that we are not shipping any units without certainty of receiving the cash for that.
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