Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) We have question from Colby Synesael with Merriman.
Colby Synesael - Merriman
Thank you for taking my questions. First obviously with the reduced guidance I was wondering if you could talk about where we are seeing the biggest change from a segment perspective; in other words, has the expectations been reduce significantly for adjust CDN or you pointed back also for either the data center or IPP’s. Also I was wondering if you could talk about just customer concern; obviously with all the news that we’ve heard over the last few months, I would assume that that’s impacting your sales cycle and could also be potentially impacting customers who could be actually leaving because of this. Is this behind now or are you still seeing that impact? Thank you.
James DeBlasio
Thanks Colby, thanks for your question. I think all three are related here, so with regard to the guidance I think that goes into the customer as well as the sales cycle question that you asked. Well, we are seeing in the business as I mentioned earlier through the integration delays that took place and the customer credits that we experienced you see the delay and the ramp of revenue that we had talked about on our last conference call. The last conference call we mentioned we had a back end mode of ramp of revenue and strong demand and the last two quarter of the year will be our strongest quarters. This delay that took place has pushed out that ramp where as you see the results for the fist quarter of $62 million, the ramp is still strong, it’s still there but it’s been pushed out where we have. The fourth quarter is not pushed into the first quarter of 2009 and with regard to our customer base and our sales cycle, the fact that all of our employees will focus on the integration getting it up and running and addressing the credit issue has delayed our sales cycle. At this point, we can say that none of our customers had the prospects that have turned away from us, but they've all required addition attention and we still feel very comfortable on the ramp that’s in front of us and in achieving that ramp and that’s why we changed the guidance from the 25% to 18%; a range that we feel very comfortable with and that that we know we can achieve.
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