Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from the line of Brian Essex with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed with your question.
Brian Essex - Morgan Stanley
Hi, good afternoon, guys. How are you?
Ken Denman
Hi, Brian.
Frank Verdecanna
Hi, Brian. Good thing.
Brian Essex - Morgan Stanley
I was wondering to get a little bit to the dial-up revenue and get a little bit more color if you have in terms of what happened during the quarter that maybe lead to a little bit more attrition than you thought. I mean I know this revenue stream kind of be choppy by million or two from quarter-to-quarter or was there anything that you can put a finger on that maybe lead it to be a little lighter.
Ken Denman
Brain, I was just add that if you look at our dollar erosion over the past two quarters, yes, there has been a kind of consistent erosion rate of kind of 8% to 10%, and then if you look at Q3, I would say we had at least additional 3% or 4% of seasonality built in to that number, so that's how we got to the high end of our expectations of around 14%.
Brian Essex - Morgan Stanley
Okay. And then the reduction in Forbes, if I could touch on that, is that a new initiative? Is at it continuation of the restructuring you had around go-remote? What were the primary drivers of that?
Ken Denman
Brian, the primary driver is a continuation of our strategy to get more leverage out of the business, but we have gaited that strategy to take care of specific things that we needed to do in the business, and from our perspective growth and product quality, product capability, the breadth of the product platform are related. We have to deliver against the market requirements, the market needs, in fact. So that sort of is very tightly tied to our list of deliverables, and the R&D team.
We have been moving in an aggressive fashion to make sure that we have a strong R&D facility team and operation in Bangalore as part of the previous acquisition, and we've been solidifying that group, while at the same time delivering against current product requirements mainly Vista and some of the 3G things that the market was wanting this year.
We kept the product integration team and QA team on shore this year to deliver, because we couldn't screw that up. I mean, this was just a must. All of our major customers were waiting for this release. Trying to push two more to India all at one time we felt it just was too risky.
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