The customer is buying an optical engine at a given price that both meets the requirements. Low cost, highly expandable with a small footprint and very energy efficient.  With low power load comes higher reliability. In short a much better product that they can hang their hat on for future generations and applications.

"Complementing these efforts, we've recruited and added to the POET team a number of accomplished individuals with proven expertise in photonics technology, product and application development and manufacturing. With this highly experienced team in place, we are actively working to establish the critical processes for the rapid scaling of production to supply optical engines in high volume. Additionally, we recently began testing POET's Optical Interposer platform technology with potential partners for markets beyond optical transceivers, including high-speed computing for artificial intelligence."