IMO Miss Schmidtke addresses the Silicon Photonics Community, when she talks about "Shorter Deployment Lifetime (<5 years)” Facebook management understands precisely that optoelectronic / photonics devices of the present may prove to be merely a transition to all-photonic computation and communication of the future.
Flashback - October 1st 1997 - please
http://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/print/volume-5/issue-10/contents/design/optoelectronics-where-photons-meet-electrons.html
The journey started over 20 years ago - today the industry wants results - time has come - Dr.Taylor’s time.
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