I'm interested in the current... industry opinion (?) of this opera. I remember reading that some found the setting of English text originally unpleasant, etc. Is it considered obscure? A masterpiece? Oddity? Is it staged with any regularity? There are a few apparently respected recordings, so it appears to have some fame.
[This Q&A with Vivek Rajgarhia will be appearing on the POET Technologies website shortly. Here it is in its entirety for the Reddit audience.]
Interest in POET Technologies’ products continues to blossom in China, where the company’s live demonstrations at two notable industry events in September were met with critical acclaim. In a recent interview session, POET President and General Manager Vivek Rajgarhia provided updates on customer engagements following the China events and explained how the industry is viewing the breakthroughs of POET’s Optical Interposer™ and the products built form it.
Q: What have the follow-up discussions since the China product demonstrations been like?
VR: It was a coming out party for us at those conferences. The impact of those events was that people now know what we are doing and understand the value we can provide to them, and in many cases to their customers. Since those events, we’ve had multiple engagements. I would say we have three levels of engagements happening.
First, we have customers who make transceiver modules and see the value of getting an optical engine from us or a semi-customized product from us because of the benefits we provide of cost and scale, and the flexibility we have in terms of form factor. Those would be Level 1 customers and we have a whole list of them, especially in China, and also in North America that have come up since those meetings.
Second, there are technology companies who have developed a certain device and they need a platform to make that device operate for the application while working with other devices. So they’re looking to see if we can integrate their device into our platform and make it meaningful to the market. Also in that same category I would say there are incumbent companies who have been packaging their products in a certain way and they look at us and want to see if they can get to the next level of packaging and provide value to their customers.
Third, is a level of companies who are end users. These are the data centers who are coming to us to say, ‘Hey, can you provide a solution for better performing and cheaper products for optical connectivity?’
At all three of those customer levels we have multiple engagements in our pipeline.
Q: Where is the stage of your products in regards to sampling for your customers?
VR: We are sampling our engines to the Level 1 customers, and even s
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