Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Min Park – Goldman Sachs.
Min Park – Goldman Sachs
With Hitesh coming on board, I was wondering if you could please update us on your views on the wireless/wire line integration just quickly, and then talk about whether you are looking to provide integration solution organically, or still focused on your partnerships going forward.
Dominic Orr, Ph.D.
I want to remind everyone that Aruba's core value proposition is a user-centric policy management engine sitting in the core of the network managing distributed mobile secure access and enterprise. We started our business through wi-fi connectivity and extending, even now, into Ethernet connectivity. In our view, over time, the media of access ranging from wired to wi-fi to 3G, 4G, is going to be all-comprehensive and Aruba's strategic direction is going to be encompassing all this mode of operation.
The appointment of Hitesh is really to help us to scale the operation of the company to take advantage of the impending explosive growth that we expect in the coming years and also to free myself up to spend more time with global alliances and doing my job as the V.P. of worldwide sales, running the theaters and so that really is—those are two independent factors.
Min Park – Goldman Sachs
And can you give us a little more color on the pipeline by customers that are vertical? And from areas are you expecting [inaudible] strength in the second half of the year?
Dominic Orr, Ph.D.
If you are looking to the strength of our last quarter, as mentioned that a lot of the momentum came from our targeted area of government, health care, and education. But we also make the observation within the quarter from the booking momentum, that it looks like the general enterprise market domestically has definitely hit bottom and seems to be coming back.
We are also seeing a stronger pipeline from selected international markets, notably in the Middle East, in part of North Asia Pacific and Australia and also in Canada, I would say.
Min Park – Goldman Sachs
Great. And just lastly, can you just tell us what your book to bill was in the quarter?
Dominic Orr, Ph.D.
I'm sorry, we do not disclose that.
Operator
Your next question comes from Ryan Hutchinson - Lazard Capital Markets.
Ryan Hutchinson - Lazard Capital Markets
Can you help us better understand the dynamics of the deferred revenue here in the quarter. Up about $10.0 million, down about $4.0 million last quarter. So I guess the real question is what it consists of, how much of that is recognized next quarter?
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