Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator instructions) Your first question comes from the line of John Bright with Avondale Partners.
Ken Kannappan
Hi, John.
John Bright – Avondale Partners
Ken, hello. Barbara, hello. OCC was strong this quarter. Did pent-up demand exist throughout the quarter? And is this the reason that maybe the sequential guidance is slightly below?
Ken Kannappan
I don’t really think so. Of course, there could have been some here and there, but I don’t think as an overall explanation that’s the case. As Barbara said, we really had five fairly flat months in a row, representing that as we declined to kind of a sharp trough level and then had a slight rebound for those five months representing what we think is a fairly steady pattern of demand over that period.
Barbara Scherer
I think if there’s been kind of a hidden demand or pent-up demand, what else (inaudible) itself more as maybe really a large month and then something less. But in fact, the weekly order rate and shipping rate has been pretty stable since February.
John Bright – Avondale Partners
Can you then – talking about Unified Communications for quite sometime, it’s very important to Plantronics story, is there a way that you can tell us how much maybe it might have represented in this quarter or maybe you can give us some signs that we should watch for its investors that it is growing?
Ken Kannappan
I mean, it is a little tough, and so we’ve been struggling ourselves with how can we communicate it given the reliability of the data, the fact that it’s a two-step and the fact that certain products can be bought for UC but not currently used for UC. In other words, people buy to future proof their solutions. Couple of comments on this. Right now, clearly UC is not a significant part of the total revenue mix, but I will tell you it dominates the discussion that we are having, particularly with the large customers at this point in time, because that is very much what they are looking towards. And many of them to most of the large companies are in fact piloting, trialing these types of units looking at UC on a go-forward basis and very concerned to make sure that the solutions they buy will be compatible with whatever UC solution they go forward with. So it’s important to them even in advance of actually deploying UC solutions. So at present, a small part of the business, but a critical strategic part of our relationship with them as a supplier.
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