Vistance Networks, Inc. (VISN)
Broadband network equipment maker, 4,500, 38% U.S. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 117 of the 174 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
End of 2028
52%
Employees, annual report
4,500
Leading staffing pattern
Communications Equipment Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now21%
- End of 202742%
- End of 202852%
- End of 203057%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 43%
- Becomes checking a model's work 45%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
The filing states 4,500 employees, 1,700 in the U.S. and 22% in manufacturing, of one networking equipment business, so one communications equipment pattern carries the workforce.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 21% now, 42% at the end of 2027, 52% at the end of 2028, 57% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 57% desk work, 19% people work and 24% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 43% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 45% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
4,500 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states a U.S. workforce of approximately 1,700 of 4,500, mostly non-manufacturing employees.
The filing: “We employed approximately 4,500 people worldwide as of December 31, 2025, with approximately 22% classified as manufacturing employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Communications Equipment Manufacturing | 100% | By description (c): broadband network access equipment and Wi-Fi networking products, communications equipment, with 22% of employees in manufacturing, mostly in Mexico, and the rest in engineering, sales and administration inside the pattern. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,500 worldwide, about 22% manufacturing employees primarily in Mexico; about 1,700 in the U.S., mostly non-manufacturing; works councils outside the U.S. and none in it; earlier years' counts of 20,000 to 30,000 belong to the company's earlier shape.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Communications Equipment Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO, 82,400 employees)23% now, 59% by 2028
- Motorola Solutions, Inc. (MSI, 23,000 employees)23% now, 59% by 2028
- Ciena Corporation (CIEN, 9,080 employees)22% now, 54% by 2028
- F5, Inc. (FFIV, 6,578 employees)23% now, 59% by 2028
- Arista Networks, Inc. (ANET, 5,115 employees)21% now, 52% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI-driven network automation among its research priorities and AI among the technologies that create or worsen cybersecurity risks.
- “We intend to focus our major R&D activities on high-growth opportunities such as Wi-Fi 7 and 6GHz, cloud management systems, AI-driven network automation and converged operational/information technology solutions, CCAP, DAA, DOCSIS 4.0 and passive optical network (PON).”
- “As cybersecurity incidents evolve, particularly given the increased use of artificial intelligence by threat actors to perpetuate cyberattacks, information technology systems like ours are increasingly vulnerable.”
- “The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI technologies, both internally and through third-party providers, may create new cybersecurity risks or exacerbate existing ones, including the risk of cybersecurity incidents, data breaches or unauthorized access to sensitive information.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20246median 4
- Fiscal 20253median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 4,500 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 20,000 | 2025-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 20,000 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 30,000 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 30,000 | 2022-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 30,000 | 2021-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | not read | 2020-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 20,000 | 2019-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 20,000 | 2018-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 25,000 | 2017-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 23,000 | 2016-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 13,000 | 2015-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 13,000 | 2014-02-20 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The data service's earlier headcounts of 20,000 to 30,000 are the company's earlier shape and are not comparable to the 4,500 the filing states.
- The manufacturing share is recorded as a function count inside the equipment pattern.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-072523, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Vistance Networks, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 52% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Vistance Networks, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Vistance Networks, Inc. employ?
- 4,500 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 38% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Vistance Networks, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Communications Equipment Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 57% desk work, 19% people work and 24% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Vistance Networks, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 3 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 6 and 3 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 20, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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