Arista Networks

“Public cloud titans and, more recently, AI Neocloud providers have been at the forefront of this evolution, pioneering the development of large-scale data and AI centers to meet the growing demands of their users, including business customers. These networks have become the benchmark for superior performance and efficiency of IT infrastructure at the lowest unit cost.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Networking at Scale for the AI Center The rapid expansion of generative, agentic, and physical AI computing and distributed applications is blurring the lines between frontend and backend AI, Cloud, and Data Centers. Modern workloads are both data- and compute-intensive and place significant demands on the underlying network.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“With the emergence of AI networking, new competitive technologies may enter the market to address the requirements of AI clusters. Ethernet, faces competition from both InfiniBand ("IB") and NVLink interconnects for back-end AI networking clusters.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“In addition, an increased focus on the deployment of AI-enabled solutions by these customers has accelerated the need for advanced technology offerings, including some offerings from potential new market entrants. This prioritization of AI related infrastructure investment has at times come in conjunction with the announcement of 14 various cost reduction measures by such customers, including optimization and increased efficiency in non-AI related capital expenditures, which could negatively impact our revenue.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Other factors may also contribute to declines in our revenue growth rates, including changes in demand for our products and services, particularly from our large customers, the deterioration of the financial performance, condition or prospects of our large customers, changes in capital spending by our large customers, 17 increased competition, price sensitivities from our customers to increases in our pricing, our ability to successfully manage our expansion or continue to capitalize on growth opportunities, the maturation of our business, geopolitical pressures, macroeconomic conditions, recession risks and monetary policy shifts, and our ability to be successful in the AI market and adjacent markets, such as campus switching, Wi-Fi networking markets and network security markets.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Recent technologies, such as generative and agentic AI models, have emerged, and while they have driven increased demand for networking, the long-term trajectory of such technologies is unknown and it is difficult for us to predict the demand for such new technologies. Customers may overestimate demand for their AI build outs and cancel, delay, reduce or otherwise modify their purchase commitments with little or no notice to us.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“In particular, recent technologies, such as generative and agentic AI models, have emerged, and while they have driven increased demand for networking, the market is rapidly changing, and the long-term trajectory is unknown. Customers may overestimate demand for their AI build outs and cancel, delay, reduce or otherwise modify their purchase commitments with little or no notice to us.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Our products’ sales cycles are lengthy in certain cases, especially with respect to our prospective large customers and certain markets including the enterprise, campus and AI markets.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Additionally, customers may require product upgrades including higher Ethernet speeds and additional functionality to address the increasing demands of cloud computing environments.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“In particular, we have increased our purchase commitments to respond to the rapid deployment of AI networks and reduce overall lead times which will increase our working capital requirements. In addition, we may have to increase our purchase commitments in response to the tightening of supply conditions in the memory market.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“In order to address customer demand and extended lead times, we have entered, and may continue to enter, into significant purchase commitments with our contract manufacturers and suppliers, with issuance of non-cancellable purchase orders for such commitments. In particular, we have increased our purchase commitments to respond to the rapid deployment of AI networks and reduce overall lead times which will increase our working capital requirements.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Beginning in October 2022, the U.S. expanded controls restricting the ability to send certain products and technology related to semiconductors, semiconductor manufacturing, and supercomputing. Although new regulations introduced in January 2025 further expanding the controls to impose a worldwide licensing requirement on certain ICs and computing resources that are used for training of AI models were rescinded prior to the scheduled compliance date, we expect the U.S. government may issue new controls on similar technologies in the future.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“The protectability of the intellectual property in AI-generated or assisted works and inventions is unclear. To the extent we use AI to create any valuable IP, we may not be able to protect it to the same extent that we would have, had we not used AI.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“•Scale Out: This network connects XPUs across multiple racks to support massive training or inferencing clusters. The industry trend toward replacing legacy, proprietary approaches, such as InfiniBand, with Ethernet, as defined by the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, creates an opportunity for us to gain share while enabling customers to scale from thousands to a million XPUs and beyond. •Scale Across: Power and space constraints, along with the need for AI inference closer to the edge, are driving the need for distributed clusters spread across large geographic distances.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Our growth strategy relies on maintaining our agility and increasing our investment in research and development to deliver market-leading features to enhance the functionality of existing cloud networking platform, expand our product offerings and build upon our technology leadership. We must continue to expand our product offerings and build upon our technology leadership.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We have made substantial investments to develop new products and services, make enhancements to existing products, and expand our product offerings through our acquisitions and internal research and development efforts. If we are unable to anticipate technological changes in our industry by introducing new, enhanced or expanded products and services in a timely and cost-effective manner or if we fail to introduce products and services that meet market demand or gain market share, we may lose our competitive position, our products may become obsolete, and our business, financial condition or results of operations could be adversely affected.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We are also focused on increasing penetration in the enterprise, campus and AI markets.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We use machine learning and AI technologies in our offerings and business, including in our Arista Guardian for Network Identity offering, and we are making investments in expanding our AI capabilities in our products, services, and tools, including ongoing deployment and improvement of existing machine learning and AI technologies, as well as developing new product features using AI technologies. We may rely on third party AI technologies and our ability to continue to use those technologies and provide our applicable products, services and tools are subject to the continued availability and improvement of those technologies.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“In addition, we are expanding internationally and into adjacent markets including the enterprise and AI market, which requires a significant investment of time, effort and financial resources into hiring and training our sales force to address these markets. If we do not effectively train our direct sales force, we may be unable to add new customers, increase sales to our existing customers, or successfully expand into new markets.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Business In a world where data is increasingly a precious commodity and competitive differentiator, Arista was founded to enable our customers to access all their centers of data in the quickest, most reliable, and secure manner. Over the last two decades, we have emerged as an industry leader, delivering data-driven, client-to-cloud networking-as-a-service.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“A substantial portion of our business and revenue depends on the growth and evolution of the networking market, including the market for AI networks and the future deployment of Ethernet networking solutions in these AI networks.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“For example, with our most recently introduced 800 GbE, AI focused Ethernet products and AI-Driven Campus and Branch Networking Offerings, our ability to maintain our competitive position with our customers will depend on our ability to deliver these new products in a timely manner, our customers' acceptance of these products and the growth of the markets that these products serve.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We remain in a period of new product introductions, adding new customers and expanded use cases, particularly in the AI Ethernet market. This has resulted in increased customer trials and contracts with acceptance periods, and an increase in the volatility and magnitude of our product deferred revenue balances, which in turn may create variability in our revenue results on a quarterly and annual basis.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“This strategy and differentiation have also allowed us to deliver our comprehensive suite of products, services, and technologies to a global customer base segmented into three primary categories: Cloud and AI Titans, AI and Specialty Providers, and Enterprise.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“If our key merchant silicon vendors do not continue to innovate, develop products that outperform their competitors or fail to meet the requirements of our customers, if there are delays in the release of their products or supply shortages, if they no longer collaborate in such fashion or if such merchant silicon is not offered to us on commercially reasonable terms, our products may become less competitive, our own product launches could be delayed or we may be required to redesign our products to incorporate alternative merchant silicon, which could result in lost sales, reduce gross margins, damage to our customer relationships or otherwise have a material effect on revenue and business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“In particular, we have increased our purchase commitments to respond to the rapid deployment of AI networks and reduce overall lead times which will increase our working capital requirements. In addition, we may have to increase our purchase commitments in response to the tightening of supply conditions in the memory market.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Due to concerns with products and services from certain semiconductor, telecommunications and video providers based in China, U.S. Congress has also enacted bans on the use of certain Chinese-origin components or systems either in items sold to the U.S. government or, in some cases, in the internal networks of government contractors and subcontractors (even if those networks are not used for government-related projects).”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Additionally, the U.S. government continues to expand controls enacted in October 2022 restricting the ability to export, reexport and transfer certain products and technology related to semiconductors, semiconductor manufacturing, and supercomputing. Although new regulations introduced in January 2025 which further expanded the controls to impose a worldwide licensing requirement on certain integrated circuits and computing resources that are used for training of AI models were rescinded prior to the scheduled compliance date, we expect the U.S. government may issue new controls on similar technologies in the future. The U.S. government also expanded the scope of restrictions on the development or production of advanced integrated circuits and certain semiconductor manufacturing equipment and the restrictions on supercomputing in China and other countries.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Although we have entered into significant purchase commitments to support long-term customer demand, if we are unable to obtain sufficient quantities of any of these components on commercially reasonable terms or in a timely manner, or if we are unable to obtain alternative sources for these components, shipments of our products could be delayed or halted entirely, or we may be required to redesign our products. Any of these events could result in the cancellation of orders, lost sales, reduced gross margins or damage to our customer relationships, which would adversely impact our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“In addition, our component suppliers change their selling prices frequently in response to market trends, including industry-wide increases in demand such as has occurred in the market for memory, or charge additional fees to expedite orders, and because we do not have contracts with these suppliers or guaranteed pricing, we are susceptible to availability or price fluctuations related to raw materials and components. If we are unable to pass component price increases along to our customers or maintain stable pricing, our gross margins could be adversely affected and our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could suffer.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Generally, we do not have guaranteed supply contracts with our component suppliers. Our suppliers have, or in the future could continue to, suffer shortages, require longer lead times, delay shipments, prioritize shipments to other vendors, reject, or decommit orders, increase prices, impose expedite fees or cease manufacturing their products or selling them to us at any time.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We expect our gross margins to vary over time and the gross margins we have achieved in recent years may not be sustainable and may be adversely affected in the future by numerous factors, including but not limited to pricing pressure on our products and services due to competition, the ability of more fully integrated competitors to bundle their networking products with other products, or utilize proprietary silicon in their products, the mix of sales to large customers who generally receive lower pricing, the mix of products sold, manufacturing-related costs, including costs associated with sourcing key components from sole or limited suppliers and potential changes to our manufacturing and supply chain to respond to international trade tensions, supply chain sourcing activities, merchant silicon costs, excess/obsolete inventory and supplier liability charges, and fees to expedite supplier components and costs related to tariffs from our products that are manufactured internationally.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“For example, our new product releases will require strong execution from our third-party merchant silicon chip suppliers to develop and release new merchant silicon chips that satisfy end-customer requirements, to meet expected release schedules and to provide sufficient quantities of these components.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“The success of our new products depends on several factors including, but not limited to, appropriate new product definition, the development of product features that sufficiently meet end-user requirements, our ability to manage the risks associated with new product production ramp-up issues, component costs, availability of components, timely completion and introduction of these products, prompt solution of any defects or bugs in these products, our ability to support these products, differentiation of new products from those of our competitors and market acceptance of these products.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Risks Related to Supply Chain and Manufacturing Insufficient component supply and inventory management and the time to manufacture our products may result in lost sales opportunities or delayed revenue, while excess inventory may harm our gross margins. Managing our manufacturing capacity and extended supply chain is complex, and our inventory management systems and related supply-chain visibility tools may not enable us to effectively manage the supply of our products and product components.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“These controls or any additional restrictions may impact our ability to export certain products to China or other countries, prohibit us from selling our products to certain of our customers, restrict our ability to use certain ICs in our products, impact our suppliers who may utilize facilities or equipment described in these controls, or impact the cost of components or inputs used to produce our products.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Our product development efforts also depend upon continued collaboration with our key suppliers, such as Broadcom. As we develop our product roadmap and continue to expand our relationships with these and other merchant silicon vendors, it is crucial that we collaborate closely with our key merchant silicon vendors to ensure that their silicon incorporates enhanced features and that our products leverage these improvements.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Sales of our switches and routing platforms generate most of our product revenue, and if we are unable to continue to grow sales of these products, our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects will suffer. Historically, we have derived substantially all of our product revenue from sales of our switching and routing platforms, and we expect to continue to do so for the foreseeable future.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Business In a world where data is increasingly a precious commodity and competitive differentiator, Arista was founded to enable our customers to access all their centers of data in the quickest, most reliable, and secure manner. Over the last two decades, we have emerged as an industry leader, delivering data-driven, client-to-cloud networking-as-a-service.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“This strategy and differentiation have also allowed us to deliver our comprehensive suite of products, services, and technologies to a global customer base segmented into three primary categories: Cloud and AI Titans, AI and Specialty Providers, and Enterprise.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Arista’s cognitive campus portfolio was driven by customers seeking the same quality and operational efficiency available in the data center across their enterprise networks.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Risks Related to Customers and Sales If we are unable to attract new large customers or to sell additional products and services in the AI Ethernet, Campus Workspace and Network Security Markets, to our existing customers, our revenue growth will be adversely affected and our revenue could decrease.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“A portion of our revenue is generated by sales to government entities, which are subject to a number of challenges and risks. We anticipate increasing our sales efforts to U.S. and foreign, federal, state and local governmental customers in the future.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Over the last decade, and especially under the current administration, the U.S. government has enacted various new and increased tariffs affecting the import of various items from various countries. For example, since 2018, the U.S. government has enacted various tariffs on products from China under Section 301 trade authorities, including on communications equipment products and components manufactured and imported from China. Since February 2025, the U.S. has also imposed additional country-specific tariffs on most trading partners, including China, as well as additional commodity-specific tariffs on certain imported items, in both instances pursuant to executive orders issued under various trade authorities, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“In response to these and other U.S. measures, China, Mexico and other countries have taken or threatened to take a range of retaliatory measures. These include the imposition of retaliatory tariffs on certain U.S.-origin goods; the implementation of new export controls by China on various critical minerals, including rare earths metals; the scheduling of further retaliatory tariff measures; and other actions that may affect us directly or indirectly.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“An increase in trade-related costs associated with these tariff actions may affect our cost of production, impair the profitability of our international production, affect our ability to procure certain items, strain our suppliers’ ability to provide 15 inputs necessary to produce certain items, and otherwise affect our manufacturing partners’ ability to provide our products at previously contracted prices. We also may not be able to pass on the full burden of the increase in trade-related costs to our partners and/or customers which could impact our profitability and/or our competitiveness.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Tariffs may also cause customers to delay or to request an expedition for their orders as they evaluate where to take delivery of our products in connection with their efforts to mitigate their own tariff exposure. Such delays or expeditions may create forecasting difficulties for us and increase the risk that orders might be canceled or might never be placed.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Current or future tariffs may also negatively impact our customers' sales, thereby causing an indirect negative impact on our own sales. Even in the absence of further tariffs, the related uncertainty and the market's fear of escalating trade tensions and related macroeconomic effects might cause our distributors and customers to place fewer orders for our products, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, liquidity, financial condition, and/or results of operations.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Weak domestic or global economic conditions and continuing economic uncertainty, fear or anticipation of such conditions, a recession, geopolitical pressures, including international trade disputes, changes in tariff policies, global pandemics, a reduction in information technology and network infrastructure spending or a deterioration of the financial performance, condition or prospects of our customers, could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects in a number of ways, including longer sales cycles, reduced demand or lower prices for our products and services, higher default rates among our channel partners, reduced unit sales and lower or no growth.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“New and changing laws, regulations, executive orders, directives, and enforcement priorities can adversely affect the Company’s business by increasing the Company’s costs, limiting the Company’s ability to continuously navigate global supply chain options in lieu of optimizing tariff outcomes, offer a product or service to customers in a timely manner, impacting customer demand for the Company’s products and services, and requiring changes to the Company’s business or supply chain.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“In recent years, certain jurisdictions have tied these approvals to concerns about international relationships, including, e.g., concerns about entities with components sourced from or tested in China. Complying with new regulations or obtaining certifications, especially as standards evolve, may be costly and disruptive to our business and also may affect our ability to sell our products where these standards or regulations apply, which in turn may prevent us from sustaining our net revenues or achieving profitability.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Over the past several years, the U.S. government has enacted a series of enhanced international trade restrictions affecting China and other countries which have included additional export controls and sanctions, import regulations and foreign investment regulations. For example, the U.S. has added additional entities, from China and elsewhere, to restricted party lists impacting the ability of U.S. companies to provide products, and in certain cases services, to these entities and, in some cases, receive products or services from these entities.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Beginning in October 2022, the U.S. expanded controls restricting the ability to send certain products and technology related to semiconductors, semiconductor manufacturing, and supercomputing. Although new regulations introduced in January 2025 further expanding the controls to impose a worldwide licensing requirement on certain ICs and computing resources that are used for training of AI models were rescinded prior to the scheduled compliance date, we expect the U.S. government may issue new controls on similar technologies in the future.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“The U.S. government also expanded the scope of restrictions on the development or production of advanced ICs and certain semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and the restrictions on supercomputing, though certain U.S. export controls have been partially relaxed pursuant to the bilateral trade negotiations between the U.S. and China since May 2025.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We, or third parties on which we rely, could experience cybersecurity incidents relating to our information systems, or our products, services, or data, which could disrupt our operations or our ability to provide services, cause vulnerabilities or perceived vulnerabilities in our product, compromise intellectual property or other sensitive data, harm our reputation, damage customer or other relationships, delay our ability to recognize revenue, lead to significant costs, legal proceedings, legal liability, or enforcement actions, or otherwise negatively impact our business. We, like all technology companies, depend upon information technology systems to conduct virtually all business operations, ranging from internal operations and product development activities to marketing and sales efforts and communications with customers and business partners. We could experience disruptions, cybersecurity breaches, and other cybersecurity incidents relating to our information systems, or our products, services, or data.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We have outsourced some business functions to third parties, including our manufacturers, logistics providers, and cloud service providers. We also rely upon distributors, resellers and system integrators to sell our products.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We, or third parties on which we rely, could experience disruptions, cybersecurity breaches, and other cybersecurity incidents with many different types of causes, including phishing schemes and other social engineering methods, fraud and other malfeasance, denial of service attacks, vulnerabilities or defects in design or manufacture, unintended technical errors, misconfigurations, “bugs,” viruses, ransomware and other malware, mishandling of data or other mistakes by employees or other insiders, and attacks by insiders or external parties. Sophisticated, or even unsophisticated, persons or organizations may attempt to compromise our systems, or third party systems on which we rely, and access, use, destroy, impair, or obtain confidential, personal, or otherwise sensitive or proprietary information and could compromise our systems, products, services and networks, or those of third parties on which we rely.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We may experience cybersecurity incidents that we do not detect, or that we do not detect for extended periods of time. The techniques used to carry out attacks are constantly evolving, and it may be more difficult to detect attacks involving techniques that we are not aware of or have not anticipated.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“If we experience a cybersecurity incident, or if any of the above events occur, or are perceived to have occurred, we could be subject to significant claims for liability from our customers and others and regulatory investigations and actions from governmental agencies, and we could be required to expend significant capital and other resources to remediate and otherwise address any incident, including to notify individuals, entities, or regulatory bodies. In addition, our ability to protect our intellectual property rights could be compromised and our reputation and competitive position could be significantly harmed.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We could incur significant costs to upgrade our systems and measures in an effort to prevent network and system disruptions and other cybersecurity incidents. Even the perception of inadequate security may damage our reputation and negatively impact our ability to win new customers and retain existing customers.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Weak domestic or global economic conditions and continuing economic uncertainty, fear or anticipation of such conditions, a recession, geopolitical pressures, including international trade disputes, changes in tariff policies, global pandemics, a reduction in information technology and network infrastructure spending or a deterioration of the financial performance, condition or prospects of our customers, could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects in a number of ways, including longer sales cycles, reduced demand or lower prices for our products and services, higher default rates among our channel partners, reduced unit sales and lower or no growth.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Shelter in place orders, factory closures or reductions in staffing at our manufacturing sites would result in material disruptions, increased lead times and supply shortages of our products. Due to their existence in foreign locations, our contract manufacturers may also be subject to or become subject to new or increased tariffs which, if sufficiently high, may affect the profitability of these operations and may require relocation to new locations, moves which may require bearing associated costs.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Geopolitical tensions and conflicts, such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and deteriorating U.S.-China relations, may create a greater risk of cyberattacks against our company and our manufacturers, suppliers, logistics providers, banks and other business partners.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“In recent years, certain jurisdictions have tied these approvals to concerns about international relationships, including, e.g., concerns about entities with components sourced from or tested in China. Complying with new regulations or obtaining certifications, especially as standards evolve, may be costly and disruptive to our business and also may affect our ability to sell our products where these standards or regulations apply, which in turn may prevent us from sustaining our net revenues or achieving profitability.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“The U.S. government also recently introduced regulations that require notification of or prohibit certain transactions by the Company with entities in China or with certain linkages to China. These regulations could apply to certain intracompany activities with our China and Hong Kong subsidiaries or other activities with entities in China or with linkages to China. These regulations could also limit the ability of others to transact certain business with the Company if those transactions involve or 37 benefit, directly or indirectly our operations in China. Where these new rules apply to a given transaction, it might limit our ability to carry out our long-term business strategy.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Any deterioration in relations between Taiwan and China could lead to additional sanctions or export controls on China, on specific individuals or entities, or otherwise in the region which could impact our ability to sell to certain of our customers, source components from China, or otherwise negatively impact our business. The United States may also continue to leverage the use of “secondary tariffs” and/or “secondary sanctions” to achieve certain foreign policy goals, or increase its enforcement of such tools, which may directly or indirectly affect our business (see also the “Escalated or escalating U.S. tariffs, as well as countermeasures taken by affected countries may have a negative effect on global economic conditions, financial markets and our business, as may retaliatory actions by other countries, including China, in response to these U.S. policies” risk factor above).”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“If we are unable to manage our relationships with our third-party contract manufacturers effectively, or if these third-party manufacturers suffer delays or disruptions or quality control problems in their operations, experience increased manufacturing lead times, capacity constraints or fail to meet our future requirements for timely delivery, our ability to ship products to our customers would be severely impaired, and our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects would be seriously harmed.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We may not be able to develop alternate or second contract manufacturers in a timely manner. If we add or change contract manufacturers or change any manufacturing plant locations within a contract manufacturer network, we would add additional complexity and risk to our supply chain management and may increase our working capital requirements. Ensuring a new contract manufacturer or new plant location is qualified and has sufficient manufacturing capacity to manufacture our products to our standards and industry requirements could take significant effort and be time consuming and expensive, and any delays or failures to adequately ramp production to meet our customer demand could negatively impact our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“A new contract manufacturer or manufacturing location may not be able to scale its production of our products at the volumes or quality we require. This could also adversely affect our ability to meet our scheduled product deliveries to our customers, which could damage our customer relationships and cause the loss of sales to existing or potential customers, late delivery penalties, delayed revenue or an increase in our costs which could adversely affect our gross margins.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We depend on third-party contract manufacturers to manufacture our product lines. A significant portion of our cost of revenue consists of payments to these third-party contract manufacturers. Our reliance on these third-party contract manufacturers reduces our control over the manufacturing process, quality assurance, product costs and product supply and timing, which exposes us to operational risks including their ability to obtain sufficient components for our products in a timely manner and to ramp manufacturing sufficiently to meet our customer demand.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We do not have long-term contracts with our third-party manufacturers that guarantee capacity, the continuation of particular pricing terms or the extension of credit limits. Accordingly, they are not obligated to continue to fulfill our supply requirements, which could result in supply shortages, and the prices we are charged for manufacturing services could be increased on short notice.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Due to concerns with products and services from certain semiconductor, telecommunications and video providers based in China, U.S. Congress has also enacted bans on the use of certain Chinese-origin components or systems either in items sold to the U.S. government or, in some cases, in the internal networks of government contractors and subcontractors (even if those networks are not used for government-related projects).”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“The U.S. government also recently introduced regulations that require notification of or prohibit certain transactions by the Company with entities in China or with certain linkages to China. These regulations could apply to certain intracompany activities with our China and Hong Kong subsidiaries or other activities with entities in China or with linkages to China. These regulations could also limit the ability of others to transact certain business with the Company if those transactions involve or 37 benefit, directly or indirectly our operations in China. Where these new rules apply to a given transaction, it might limit our ability to carry out our long-term business strategy.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Additionally, the U.S. government continues to expand controls enacted in October 2022 restricting the ability to export, reexport and transfer certain products and technology related to semiconductors, semiconductor manufacturing, and supercomputing. Although new regulations introduced in January 2025 which further expanded the controls to impose a worldwide licensing requirement on certain integrated circuits and computing resources that are used for training of AI models were rescinded prior to the scheduled compliance date, we expect the U.S. government may issue new controls on similar technologies in the future. The U.S. government also expanded the scope of restrictions on the development or production of advanced integrated circuits and certain semiconductor manufacturing equipment and the restrictions on supercomputing in China and other countries.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Any deterioration in relations between Taiwan and China could lead to additional sanctions or export controls on China, on specific individuals or entities, or otherwise in the region which could impact our ability to sell to certain of our customers, source components from China, or otherwise negatively impact our business. The United States may also continue to leverage the use of “secondary tariffs” and/or “secondary sanctions” to achieve certain foreign policy goals, or increase its enforcement of such tools, which may directly or indirectly affect our business (see also the “Escalated or escalating U.S. tariffs, as well as countermeasures taken by affected countries may have a negative effect on global economic conditions, financial markets and our business, as may retaliatory actions by other countries, including China, in response to these U.S. policies” risk factor above).”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“These controls or any additional restrictions may impact our ability to export certain products to China or other countries, prohibit us from selling our products to certain of our customers, restrict our ability to use certain ICs in our products, impact our suppliers who may utilize facilities or equipment described in these controls, or impact the cost of components or inputs used to produce our products.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Public cloud titans and, more recently, AI Neocloud providers have been at the forefront of this evolution, pioneering the development of large-scale data and AI centers to meet the growing demands of their users, including business customers. These networks have become the benchmark for superior performance and efficiency of IT infrastructure at the lowest unit cost.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“We have experienced unpredictability in the timing of orders from our large customers primarily due to the overall complexity of these large orders and changes in demand specific to these customers, including reductions in or changes in the mix of capital expenditures by these customers and the impact of cost reduction and other efficiency efforts by these customers. In addition, the variability in customer concentration is linked to the timing of new product deployments, and spending cycles with these customers, as well as the time it takes these customers to evaluate, test, qualify and accept our products and services, and we expect continued variability in our customer concentration and timing of sales on a quarterly and annual basis.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Our business depends on the overall demand for information technology, network connectivity and access to data and applications. Weak domestic or global economic conditions and continuing economic uncertainty, fear or anticipation of such conditions, a recession, geopolitical pressures, including international trade disputes, changes in tariff policies, global pandemics, a reduction in information technology and network infrastructure spending or a deterioration of the financial performance, condition or prospects of our customers, could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects in a number of ways, including longer sales cycles, reduced demand or lower prices for our products and services, higher default rates among our channel partners, reduced unit sales and lower or no growth.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“The market demand for networking solutions has increased in recent years as customers have deployed larger, more sophisticated networks and have increased the use of virtualization and cloud computing.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Risks Related to Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Our products, services, and external facing or internal network systems, or those of third parties on which we rely, could experience cybersecurity incidents, and defects, errors, or vulnerabilities in our products, or the misuse of our products, could lead to cybersecurity incidents or a failure to detect cybersecurity incidents, create product liability risks, damage our reputation, adversely impact our operating results, or otherwise negatively impact our business. Our products, services, and external facing or internal network systems could experience cybersecurity incidents or become a target for security attacks, including attacks specifically designed to disrupt our business and our customers and introduce malicious software and attacks by state sponsors.”

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“In addition defects, errors, or vulnerabilities in our security platform or in the hardware upon which it is deployed, including as a result of misuse or a failure to implement updates to such platform, could temporarily or permanently limit our detection capabilities and expose our end-customers’ networks, leaving their networks unprotected against the latest security threats, or otherwise lead to cybersecurity incidents. If customers of our security platform do suffer a cybersecurity incident, even if it is not attributable to a failure of our platform, customers may believe that our platform failed to detect a threat or vulnerability, which could harm our reputation or negatively affect our financial results.”

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“In addition, the global macroeconomic environment has been negatively affected by, among other things, the uncertainty in the global banking and financial services markets, epidemics, instability in global economic markets, changes in government administration and policy positions, increased uncertainty associated with recent scheduled, threatened and/or anticipated increases in tariffs and other trade barriers, inflationary pressures, higher interest rates, instability in the global credit markets, the impact and uncertainty regarding global central bank monetary policy, instability, tension and conflict in the geopolitical environment, and foreign governmental debt concerns which have caused, and are likely to continue to cause, uncertainty and instability in local economies and in global financial markets.”

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“In addition, inflationary pressures and shortages, such as the recent tightening of supply conditions in the memory market, have increased and may continue to increase costs for certain materials, components, supplies and services.”

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“As a result of cost inflation in our supply chain, we have implemented targeted price increases from time to time. However, these price increases could result in a decrease in demand for our products which would decrease revenue.”

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“Weak domestic or global economic conditions and continuing economic uncertainty, fear or anticipation of such conditions, a recession, geopolitical pressures, including international trade disputes, changes in tariff policies, global pandemics, a reduction in information technology and network infrastructure spending or a deterioration of the financial performance, condition or prospects of our customers, could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects in a number of ways, including longer sales cycles, reduced demand or lower prices for our products and services, higher default rates among our channel partners, reduced unit sales and lower or no growth.”

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“A decline in interest rates would reduce our interest income on our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. Conversely, an increase in interest rates could have a material impact to the fair market value of our investments in fixed income securities.”

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“We are exposed to fluctuations in currency exchange rates, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Our sales contracts are primarily denominated in U.S. dollars, and therefore, substantially all of our revenue is not subject to foreign currency risk; however, an increase in the U.S. dollar could result in an increase in the cost of our products to our customers outside of the U.S., which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.”

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“A stronger U.S. dollar could make our products and services more expensive in foreign countries and therefore reduce demand.”

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“There is no guarantee that suppliers will meet their commitments or that actual customer demand will not be lower than our demand forecasts. Additionally, certain customers have and may continue to engage in cost reduction measures including reductions in capital expenditures and other efficiency efforts, which may result in a cancellation of orders or reduce demand for our products.”

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“In addition to laws aimed directly at trade, failure of our products to comply with a broader set of evolving industry standards and government regulations may adversely impact our business and in particular our ability to market in particular countries. Our products must comply with various U.S. federal government regulations and standards defined by agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission, standards established by governmental authorities in various foreign countries and recommendations of the International Telecommunication Union. In some circumstances, we must obtain regulatory approvals or certificates of compliance before we can offer or distribute our products in certain jurisdictions or to certain customers.”

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“In addition, a decrease in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to foreign currencies could increase our product and operating costs in foreign locations. Further, a portion of our operating expenses is incurred outside the U.S., is denominated in foreign currencies and is subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates.”

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“These include the imposition of retaliatory tariffs on certain U.S.-origin goods; the implementation of new export controls by China on various critical minerals, including rare earths metals; the scheduling of further retaliatory tariff measures; and other actions that may affect us directly or indirectly.”

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“As we continue to expand globally, we have seen and continue to see new competition in different geographic regions.”

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“Our ability to grow our business and our future success will depend to a significant extent on our ability to expand our operations and customer base worldwide.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“As we continue to expand globally, we have seen and continue to see new competition in different geographic regions.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Our ability to grow our business and our future success will depend to a significant extent on our ability to expand our operations and customer base worldwide.”

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“Many of our customers, resellers, partners, suppliers and manufacturers operate around the world.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

“Our ability to grow our business and our future success will depend to a significant extent on our ability to expand our operations and customer base worldwide.”

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