Alcatel-Lucent's Q1 2015 group revenues, excluding Managed Services and at constant perimeter, increased 12% year-on year, with strong growth coming from next-generation products, which are up 25%. At constant exchange rates, group revenues, excluding Managed Services and at constant perimeter, are down 2% while next-generation revenues are up 9%. Gross margin expanded 230 bps year-over-year to 34.6%.
“Our first quarter 2015 results reflect not only strong growth in our next-generation products, but also the diligent efforts we have made to turn Alcatel-Lucent around and build a more resilient organization. Evidence of our progress is shown through the continued improvement in margins and cash flow. Execution of the Shift Plan is and will continue to be our top priority, underlined by our commitment to reach our positive free cash flow target in 2015. These results help pave the way for successful execution of our goals as we prepare for our combination with Nokia,” stated Michel Combes, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent.
Some highlights:
- Core Networking segment revenues were Euro 1,450 million in Q1 2015, up 7% year-over-year at actual rates and down 3% at constant rates. Adjusted operating income totalled Euro 41 million, or 2.8% of segment revenues in Q1 2015, compared to Euro 96 million or 7.1% of revenues in Q1 2014. This decline was mainly attributable to reinvestments made to promote future growth as well as lower contribution from IP Routing, which was impacted by a temporary softer spending environment in North America and Japan, and variations in product mix.
- IP Routing revenues were Euro 583 million in Q1 2015, an increase of 6% at actual rates and a decrease of 6% at constant rates when compared to Q1 2014, which was a very strong seasonally-adjusted Q1 compared to the previous Q4 2013.
- The high-end 7950 XRS IP Core router saw strong year-over-year revenue growth and registered 3 new wins in Q1, including a US cable company, for a total of 39 wins to date.
- There was significant interest and activity in routing virtualization continued with 8 Virtualized Service Router (VSR) wins to date, including 3 new wins in the quarter, and 55 trials underway.
- Nuage Networks added 4 new customers in the quarter, bringing the total to 20 customers. Recent wins include CTCC, the Cloud Computing Branch of China Telecom, which selected Nuage’s SDN technology to help deliver secure, scalable, and self-serve public cloud services in China's fast-growing cloud computing market.
- IP Transport revenues were Euro 492 million in Q1 2015, up 8% at actual rates and 2% at constant rates, compared to the year-ago quarter. Terrestrial optics revenues grew at a mid-single-digit pace year-over-year at constant rates, driven by WDM and with particular strength in the EMEA and CALA regions. The submarine business registered a double-digit year-over-year revenue increase, resuming revenue growth as the pipeline continues to build up.
- The 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) platform represented 60% of terrestrial optical product revenues in the quarter, up 16 percentage points year-on-year, and was selected by Chuan Wei for Cambodia’s first ultra-broadband 100G fiber-optic data network.
- In Q1 2015, our 100G shipments represented 47% of total WDM line cards shipments compared to 31% in Q1 2014, also up 16 percentage points year-on-year.
- Access segment revenues were Euro 1,782 million in Q1 2015, an increase of 13% year-over-year at actual rates and a decrease of 2% at constant rates.
- Wireless Access revenues were Euro 1,184 million, a year-on-year increase of 19% at actual rates and flat at constant rates, as growth from LTE rollouts in China was offset by lower spending in other regions, particularly North America.
- Fixed Access revenues were Euro 506 million in Q1 2015, an increase of 10% compared to the year-ago quarter at actual rates and a decrease of 1% at constant rates. Competition for broadband access drove good performance in EMEA, APAC outside China and CALA, compensating for the impact of spending pause in North America.
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