“We expect this momentum to continue as customers are showing significant interest in our 400 gig and 800 gig switches based on Silicon One.”

In context

“t, and the diversion of funds within U.S. federal. It's important to note that we believe the deals we are working on with U.S. federal customers are simply delayed, not lost. In both EMEA and APJC, year-over-year public sector order growth was strong. Now, let me share some data on demand through the lens of our products to provide some incremental color. Our networking portfolio saw double-digit product order growth overall, driven by switching, wireless, and internet infrastructure. Looking at data center switching in particular, we have seen three consecutive quarters of double-digit order growth and an acceleration from Q4 into Q1. This shows our competitive strength in this key market and the power of our Nexus brand in the build out of private cloud infrastructure by our customers. We expect this momentum to continue as customers are showing significant interest in our 400 gig and 800 gig switches based on Silicon One. Security orders more than doubled year-over-year, driven by the advanced threat intelligence capabilities of Splunk. Excluding Splunk, growth in security product orders was driven by our renewed security strategy and new product pipeline, which continues to be well received by customers and analysts. We continue to see momentum around our new security products like XDR, Secure Access and Multicloud Defense with now over 1,000 customers deploying these products thus far. In Q1, we had a marquee win for over 75,000 cloud security seats with a multinational IT services and consultancy company. The customer largely replaced an SSE competitor with our solution and moved from planning to implementation in 120 days, highlighting how fast our teams can implement our solutions at scale. We also bo”