R&D spend generally held up well during the Q3 and continued strong into Q4 as customers continue to invest in 5G and 400-gig technology rollouts. As this thing progresses, it generates the demand for additional volume, so thus, I would say our thesis that there is a lag of several quarters still holds. It sounds like the lab business held up fairly well. Because we're not giving any particular guidance of fiscal Q4. Everybody on this system is just talk to momentum yesterday, and they're guiding down quite sharply in the June quarter. Is that correct? I would now like to turn the call over to Amar. Sure. Acquisitions that you've done have been wildly -- companies have been reluctant in terms of giving you the pricing that you talked about. Thanks for taking my question. So one-third of that was because of that. Michael Genovese -- MKM Partners -- Analyst. I'm just curious if you can talk about that a little bit in contrast that with the-- as technicians are out there making sure networks are still running, we might have seen that actually be a little bit stronger on the fiber test side or things like that. In Q3, we repurchased approximately $33.1 million of Viavi stock at an average cost basis of $11.49 per share including commissions. Good afternoon. [Operator instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Mehdi Hosseini of Susquehanna. OSP on another hand, saw a late-quarter recovery due to customer order upsides and expedites and, as a result, came in above expectations. And it will be multiple sockets. That said, at this point, we are not seeing any meaningful order cancellations. We spend about 3% to 5% of capex as a percentage of revenue in our business and what you should expect is we will continue to focus on making sure that we are maintaining a strong but very focused investment program which are targeted in our secular growth areas as we talk about in 5G, 3DS build-out, as well as fiber. We have almost a real-time demand. Thank you, Amar. But as you look at these dynamics among service providers considering increased traffic, increased subscriber ads, I guess how long do you expect that to last and what are you seeing kind of real time to date and whether you have any positive exposure to increased network traffic? A lot of the orders -- I mean, we get -- in the anti-counterfeiting, we get a six-month base forecast, but it can go up or go down during the quarter. Thanks. Pardon me. SE revenue at $23.1 million declined 7.2% from a year ago primarily due to weakness in our mature assurance products. The Company will host an earnings call at 1:30pm PDT/4:30pm EDT. So initially, when the notes are being distributed, they come out of inventory, which depletes their inventory of finished notes. Returns as of 01/14/2021. I think that would be not prudent to do it. I think it usually takes a few quarters for things to percolate and settle down. Follow us on Twitter @investornetwork. I will now turn the call over to Bill. The Algorithm predicts "% Predicted Move After Earnings Announcement" (PMAEA) for VIAV three weeks prior to earnings date. The other half was a result of demand slowdown with orders pushed out into Q4 and beyond. And that means usually opening up some of the less desirable bands with more noise and things like that, which require a lot of troubleshooting. But going into Q4, I think it was more prudent for us to assume that this is going to be the same as what we saw in Q3 with strength in lab, as well as in the mid-haul and the backhaul of the network. It's too early to tell. I think there is still some denial. So I think the shortfall that we saw in the field instruments, I don't think it's going to be. Within NSE, any gross margin at 63.6% declined 60 basis points year on year primarily due to lower revenue volumes. But generally, in the past, whenever you had any type of fiscal stimulus, part of it comes out in terms of physical notes. Fiscal Q3 was a challenging quarter for Viavi as COVID-19 pandemic migrated from China to Europe and then to the US impacting our operations in R&D centers globally. So that's where we saw the slowdown in spend. The Company will host an earnings call at 1:30pm PDT / 4:30pm EDT. Samik Chatterjee -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst. My name is Bill Ong, Head of Investor Relations. And so from that perspective, if you think about our overall business, as Oleg mentioned, we will see some pressure on the edge of the network. In conclusion, I would like to express a special thanks to my Viavi team for their extraordinary performance during these challenging times. From that perspective, yes. Find the latest Earnings Report Date for Viavi Solutions Inc. Common Stock (VIAV) at Nasdaq.com. Whereas for us, it's more of a -- we don't get as much uptick when things really turnaround. And then more broadly, as you look at dynamics, like for example, cable operators reporting beyond record increases in subscribers in the March quarter and general trends across networks to see increased network traffic. So I think the amount of bandwidth demand is increasing, and the mix of the bandwidth is changing. Our fiscal Q3 was a challenging quarter for Viavi as the COVID-19 pandemic impacted all businesses around the globe. But I think prior to this commentary, you had really thought about this as potentially several quarters out before you would see a pickup in this arena. That's the reason we're able to deliver good operating -- gross margins even when the volumes actually came down in our NSE business. And so that we will still deliver to the operating profit requirement. Alex Henderson -- Needham and Company -- Analyst. It is on Tue 2 Feb (In 27 Days). So if the right opportunity comes along, absolutely, we will definitely take a look at it. The communications equipment provider reported $0.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.17 by $0.04. Viavi undertakes no obligation to update these statements. So it's a smaller component of the field force and we continue to see shipments of instruments and orders to those parts of operations to be pretty strong. It's really more matched to the actual end market shipments. As we are going to production, would that step-up in revenue be enough if some of the incremental revenue that was supposed to happen in the March quarter and got pushed out into the second half? And I think China is clearly one of the big 400-gig rollout destinations. In fact, both our 11 production for 400 gig and 5G wireless, all the products shipped as expected, and the customers to come. Yes. Please note this call will include forward-looking statements about the company's financial performance. And by the way, even within Viavi, even though we have a lot of work from home, we do maintain some level of engineering labs activity. Unlike with some of the capital products that the network service providers buy from the likes of Cisco and others, there, they have orders well in advance, and it's longer-term orders because part of their capital spend, most of the instrumentation falls under opex spend, and as such, the timing between the time we receive an order in the time we ship it is usually less than a quarter. But as you kind of talking to these customers, what's your read in terms of which customer groups are more likely to be value expanding plans for the year and kind of in the backdrop of a weaker macro? And one of the things we did see is the paper notes are actually proving to be lower risk than the plastic notes. Then I have a follow-up. We plan to continue to be opportunistic in our share repurchase. We saw increased security pigment demand toward the end of the quarter. Joining me on today's … Your line is open. Our demand is much closer matched to what the customer actually builds and ships. Bulk of 5G demand driven today by the NIMs who are still a very aggressively ramping up their product launches and preparing for production. I think the biggest headwind in 3D sensing is just fundamentally lower expected volumes of higher-end phones. So I think we are pretty comfortable with our market share. And the seasonal strength is coming from the lab side of the business, as well as Oleg mentioned, in the mid-haul and the backhaul of the network. Is that the right way to think about how you are forecasting your business? So when you say that the edge, which is a third NSE, you expect to be rather slow for two, three quarters, it's just based on your assumption that it would take some time for people to go back to work, and the work from home would phase out? It is on Tue 2 Feb (In 27 Days). The forward-looking statements, including guidance we provide during this call are valid only as of today. In fact, there is a strong demand for this product as is because I think the -- all our customers are seeing very healthy demand in the market even with the downturn. So when we talk about our 400-gig rollout, that basically means we are selling production test equipment, as well as some of the lab equipment to these customers, both the module manufacturers, as well as the system manufacturers. Ian, let's begin the question-and-answer session. And so I'm trying to understand what it is that's caused it to pull in. And I don't know how it is where you live, but I know here in the Bay Area, you're pretty much told by your local service providers that they're not going to send any technicians to your house. Hey. Yes. Well, right now, a lot of our demand -- I mean, we do have already some carrier demand, but it's really more related to trial installation and testing. Your line is open. NSE revenue at $187 million declined 9% year on year and was below the guidance range of $204 million to $220 million. That said, also what we're seeing initially happens, there is plenty of inventory. I mean, clearly, the guide out of light is not a good indicator for you guys. ET. I don't think you can make a jump to a lower-margin product. There has been significant devaluation of their local currency. So I've just taken a six-month window and said what that would be. First question on the OSP upside at the end of the quarter, sort of pull-ins. So when you think about the dynamics, I think we will be operating at an opex level that you saw in Q3, and I think that should be -- as the revenue come back -- revenue comes back, we will scale the opex to that extent on the variable side. I think the issue here is really more on the EDGE because those are the technicians that have been sent home and we don't know what the rate they're going to be brought back and how quickly they going to be brought back. And you wouldn't feel like it would be as positive as some of the infrastructure guys. And I think for us, the model allocation or model mix aside, the biggest thing that we worry about is the ultimate total market demand. So I would say, a big chunk of our business, I would say, is the -- within the quarter book-ship. Our whole philosophy is that we want to remain invested in areas where we think there is potential growth, and we know there is one. Milpitas, Calif., August 5, 2015 – (NASDAQ: VIAV) VIAVI Solutions Inc. (“VIAVI”), formerly JDSU, is rescheduling its earnings call for 1:15pm PT/4:15pm ET on August 11, 2015 to discuss its fiscal fourth quarter and year-end 2015 financial results for the period ended June 27, 2015. So yes, we get a general forecast, but I mean, it can go up and down throughout the quarter. They are the ones -- they do the customer turn-in, and they go into your house and these operations. There are no further questions at this time. As I said during my prepared remarks, we did not see any 400-gig pushout. So first of all, I mean, when we look at the new technology releases, right, which is now, we are in the midst of two big rollouts. So I don't think we're going to see any additional demand beyond what we are planning that would make up any shortfall. Or are you conserving cash and therefore choosing not to go that route? So for the time being, if you want to get a new service, you're probably not going to get it, but what a lot of operators are doing is trying to increase effective bandwidth within their network and get more efficiency out of their existing core and planned to provide additional capacity to the existing customers. I just want to follow up. So I think our opex, we were -- when you think about our opex versus the guidance, we came in roughly about $10 million below what was implied in our guidance for Q3. Sure. The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Tim Savageaux -- Northland Capital Markets -- Analyst. NSE was below the guidance range, while OSP exceeded the range. Hi, good afternoon. So most of the printing plants were just as heavily impacted by shutdown, so in fact, most of the printing facilities have been shut down for the last month, month and a half, OK, two months. This secured credit facility, combined with more than $530 million of cash on our balance sheet, further strengthens our liquidity position. VIAVI ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER FISCAL 2021 RESULTS First Quarter • Net revenue of $284.7 million, down $15.1 million or 5.0% year-over-year • GAAP operating margin of 11.0%, up 410 bps year-over-year • Non-GAAP operating margin of 21.3%, up 370 bps year-over-year • GAAP EPS of $0.06, up $0.03 or 100.0% year-over-year Viavi Solutions Inc. Common Stock (VIAV) Stock Quotes - Nasdaq offers stock quotes & market activity data for US and global markets. And the other half was travel entertainment, etc., which I think these are variable expenses that will come back as the revenue comes back. You've just got to make sure that the deal is right and the price is right. I see. It's also the symmetry of traffic. So it was all in the core OSP, Mike. Of the $200 million authorized share buyback announced during September 2019 analyst day event, we have repurchased approximately $43.8 million of Viavi stock to date. In some past, there has been migration to mile our type money and apparently that currency is proving to be more risky than the paper notes, which have some of the antibacterial properties and so on and so forth. A live webcast of the call and the replay will be available on the VIAVI website at https://investor.viavisolutions.com. OK. We are seeing healthy demand on kind of midstream over the network. But it was more than offset by this trend we saw in anti-counterfeiting, as well as some of the expedited orders. Investor Network (IN) is a financial content community, serving millions of unique investors market information, earnings, commentary and news on what's trending. Nearly half of NSE revenue shortfall can be attributed to customer and logistics shutdown that resulted in shipments or acceptance getting delayed since no one was available at the customer side to receive products. Joining me on today's call are Oleg Khaykin, president and CEO; and Amar Maletira, CFO. [Operator instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. Right. But I thought you'd said that that was going to be around $50 million in the upcoming quarter. Turning to the balance sheet. One is the optical networking. The area of the networks where most operators are working and continue to send their recognition to is the maintenance of the core of the network. One of the biggest challenges that we are seeing with some of our customers is the significant increase in the upstream traffic. Are we talking about fiscal Q4? Earnings estimates and surprises for Viavi Solutions (VIAV) are an important tool used to evaluate the company's overall strength and value of the stock. Thank you, Oleg. So we are assuming a U-shape recovery, thinking that more of the same for the next two quarters, so first half of fiscal '21 and then sort of a recovery starting to happen in fiscal '20 for calendar first half of 2021. Joining me on today's … This impact was more modest for enterprise and data center product revenues, which were roughly flat to a year ago. You also don't get as much downdraft when things go down the other way. I'm just curious sort of how you look at those two in this current environment right now. However, we expect, anti-counterfeiting product demand to remain stable given that bank note reprints are typically countercyclical in recessionary periods. Overall, for fiscal '21 as we are looking out, we are not assuming a V-shape recovery. 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