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OPERATING SEGMENT INFORMATION
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
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OPERATING SEGMENT INFORMATION

(13) OPERATING SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company has two operating and reportable segments, Cloud and Edge and IP Optical Networks, that align with the way the business is managed. The Company’s CODM, its President and Chief Executive Officer, makes key operating decisions and assesses performance based upon these reportable segments.

The Cloud and Edge segment provides secure and reliable software and hardware products, solutions and services for enabling Voice over Internet Protocol ("VoIP") communications, Voice over Long-Term Evolution ("VoLTE") and Voice Over 5G ("VoNR") communications, and Unified Communications and Collaboration ("UC&C") within service provider and enterprise networks and from the cloud. The Cloud and Edge products are increasingly software-centric and cloud-native for deployment on private, public or hybrid cloud infrastructures, in data centers, on enterprise premises

and within service provider networks. Ribbon's Cloud and Edge product portfolio consists primarily of its Session Border Controller ("SBC") products and its Network Transformation products.

The IP Optical Networks segment provides high-performance, secure solutions for IP networking and optical transport, supporting wireless networks including 5G, metro and edge aggregation, core networking, data center interconnect, legacy transformation and transport solutions for wholesale carriers. This portfolio is offered to service provider, enterprise and industry verticals with critical transport network infrastructures including utilities, government, defense, transportation, and education and research.

The Company does not provide segment asset information as such information is not provided to the CODM and accordingly, asset information is not used in assessing segment performance. Segment revenue and expenses included in the tables below represent direct revenue and expense attributable to each segment. Please see Note 10 for information regarding the allocation of goodwill between segments.

The CODM utilizes adjusted gross profit to evaluate each segment's performance. The Company calculates adjusted gross profit by excluding from cost of revenue both amortization of acquired technology and stock-based compensation and may also exclude other items in future periods that the Company believes are not part of the Company's core business. The Company uses adjusted gross profit to develop its annual budget and quarterly forecasts. The CODM analyzes adjusted gross profit compared to the annual budget and quarterly forecasts to allocate resources. Ribbon’s calculation of adjusted gross profit may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies. See below for a reconciliation of segment adjusted gross profit to gross profit and loss before income taxes.

The tables below present significant segment expenses regularly reviewed by the CODM for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 (in thousands):

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2024

    

Segment revenue:

Cloud and Edge

 

$

137,048

 

$

110,555

 

$

244,639

 

$

212,224

 

IP Optical Networks

 

83,535

 

82,065

 

157,223

 

160,060

 

Revenue

 

$

220,583

 

$

192,620

 

$

401,862

 

$

372,284

 

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2024

    

Segment adjusted gross profit:

Cloud and Edge

 

$

84,854

 

$

72,946

 

$

152,150

 

$

140,065

 

IP Optical Networks

 

29,961

 

31,791

 

50,775

 

63,756

 

Total segment adjusted gross profit

 

114,815

 

104,737

 

202,925

 

203,821

 

Reconciliation of segment adjusted gross profit to gross profit and loss before income taxes

Stock-based compensation expense

(231)

(338)

(583)

(916)

Amortization of acquired technology

 

(5,277)

 

(6,532)

 

(10,665)

 

(13,083)

 

Gross profit

 

109,307

 

97,867

 

191,677

 

189,822

 

Research and development expense

44,696

43,489

88,264

89,252

Sales and marketing expense

32,536

32,984

64,324

67,700

General and administrative expense

16,630

14,901

31,758

30,092

Amortization of acquired intangible assets

5,975

6,508

12,130

13,214

Acquisition-, disposal- and integration-related expense

3,898

3,898

Restructuring and related expense

1,346

1,920

6,687

4,985

Interest expense, net

10,977

3,879

21,477

9,866

Other (expense) income, net

2,159

9,503

(970)

17,016

Loss before income taxes

$

(8,910)

$

(15,317)

$

(35,891)

$

(42,303)

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Segment depreciation expense:

Cloud and Edge

 

$

2,399

 

$

2,324

 

$

4,752

 

$

4,657

 

IP Optical Networks

 

1,889

 

1,052

 

3,005

 

2,113

 

Depreciation expense

 

$

4,288

 

$

3,376

 

$

7,757

 

$

6,770