Bandwidth's investments in AI voice are translating into customer adoption, with new $1 million-plus multiyear deals.
Platforms like Maestro and AI Bridge are enabling enterprises to integrate AI voice into customer call flows.
Major clients in financial services, healthcare, and hospitality are leveraging these AI capabilities.
AI is not replacing voice but enriching it, potentially increasing revenue 3x to 4x per call through added services like transcription, fraud detection, and orchestration.
Every new enterprise win this quarter included Maestro, emphasizing its role as a core differentiator and revenue driver.
AI Momentum and Enterprise Adoption Accelerates Significantly
Enterprise AI bookings more than tripled year-over-year in Q2, with net new AI bookings doubling and installed base AI bookings quadrupling.
AI now represents over 20% of Enterprise ACV bookings, up from 10% of subscription revenue, indicating rapid growth and increasing market penetration.
Customers are achieving substantial ROI, including 80% reduction in abandonment rate and 50%+ increase in containment rate, demonstrating tangible value.
ASGN launched the AI Innovation Center to enhance innovation, optimize resources, and promote AI-driven growth, featuring development environments, a repository of IP, best practices, and technology evaluation.
The center develops solution accelerators, such as financial agents, code discovery tools, network security assistants, and AWS Agentic AI tools, to solve specific business problems and deploy cost-effective solutions.
AI University provides upskilling resources for sales and technical teams, fostering continuous innovation and relevance in AI advancements.
Management emphasizes that AI investments are integrated into the company's broader strategy to build proprietary IP and support long-term growth, with a focus on account and deal-specific IP development.
Extreme Platform 1 became generally available, marking a milestone as the first conversational multimodal AI-powered networking platform in the industry.
Early customer feedback is positive, with West Suffolk NHS in the UK migrating in just 47 minutes, highlighting rapid deployment and operational efficiency.
The platform automates tasks, breaks down silos between networking and security, and offers industry-leading features like subsecond convergence, micro segmentation, and a customizable AI dashboard.
Industry analysts recognize the platform as 'at the leading edge' in AI for networking, emphasizing its sophistication and market relevance.
Customers see the platform as a way to simplify planning, deployment, and troubleshooting, reducing downtime and increasing ROI.
The platform's multimodal AI agents are expected to become integral members of IT teams, enhancing network management and security.
Impact of Customer Optimization on Cloud Revenue Growth
Large customers' optimization efforts have led to consumption growth below prior years' levels.
An AI-native customer is shifting towards self-management, reducing their cloud usage, which is expected to dampen Q4 cloud revenue growth by low single digits.
Despite short-term headwinds, the company remains confident in long-term growth, with a 31% increase in RPO indicating deeper customer commitments.
AI and Data Center Opportunities in Semiconductor Portfolio
Microchip has secured design wins in data center infrastructure, including AI acceleration, storage, and network infrastructure, with tier 1 cloud providers and enterprise leaders.
Rich Simoncic highlighted advancements in AI coding assistants, which improve customer productivity by up to 40%, with a new AI agent feature to be released in September 2025.
The company is expanding its connectivity, storage, and compute offerings for AI and data center applications, including intelligent power modules for AI at the edge.
Security enhancements include embedded controllers with post-quantum cryptography support, complying with NSA mandates and standards like CNSA 2.0 and European Cyber Resiliency Act.
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