Michael Hurlston
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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I'm like, a lot of fun talking to Molly.
So there we go.
Optics is becoming a big thing, right, in the data centers.
And Tony was sort of framing.
We have all these funny terms, scale across, scale out, scale up, scale in.
And Tony was walking the audience through what all of these different things mean and
What Lumentum's role is in all of that, which is we're in the middle of a pretty exciting time right now, is the data center uses more and more optical connectivity.
Obviously, there are fibers.
And fibers are essentially glass.
They're just conductors.
Instead of having wires, copper wires, you have fibers.
And fibers basically contains the light, just like a wire or a copper strand contains electricity.
And so what you get with fiber optics is the ability to move data faster over longer distances with less heat and less power than you get with electricity.
So if you think about the way data centers are architected today, it's mostly copper wires, right?
Ethernet cables are essentially copper wires.
And copper wires, the physics of copper is there's a resistive property.
So as data tries to move across the wires, it gets hotter and the resistance prevents it from going all that far.
And so now inside the data center, you have speeds are increasing, bandwidths are increasing, and copper can no longer carry these signals the distances they need to go.
And so you have more and more optics now coming into the data center.
And optics essentially is just light, right?
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