Suresh Venkatesan's comments : LightBar C, Beyond the Press Release. Feb 23, 2021.

"This press release is all about expanding the viability and capability of our platform.
a basic platform that is compatible in an end-to-end configuration across a multiple set of wavelengths."

"I must insist that our primary focus still will continue to be datacom because we’ve got to get products out in data communications as the first step towards building a very large business across multiple verticals. But, nevertheless, this is an important press release in the sense that it is validating our capabilities as a platform at wavelengths that are outside of what is traditionally used in data communications."

"...we did announce that we have engaged with a customer on artificial intelligence processors and servicing that business requires us to develop and demonstrate this capability and so what we’re doing here is tied to a customer, it’s tied to products, it’s not a R&D activity per se. But the capability demonstration is critically important because the underpinnings of our strategy is a platform approach that is scalable and this goes one step further towards validating that strategy, validating that concept."

"...it’s important that the investors and shareholders know and understand that we as a management team are focused on our near-term deliverables and data centers as the first and primary source of revenue. And that these are important to build value in the company, to build value in the platform, and will be continued down, but they are not our immediate and first source of revenue"

"We want to set the expectation that we will continue to put press releases out based on real data and based on our strategy and based on the fact that we are expanding this platform. And that we expect this company therefore to have multiple verticals as an underpinning of its total revenue picture. But our focus will continue, and our near-term revenue will continue to be generated in the data communications and intra datacenter."

"...we are not the incumbent. Therefore, we have to keep winning business or changing people’s minds on how things ought to be done versus how they are doing things. There is a gestation period. We need to go through that systematically. It’s not one of those “Oh here’s a platform,” and so suddenly you sprout multiple revenue streams. They have to be developed.
We want to set the expectation that we will continue to put press releases out based on real data and based on our strategy and based on the fact that we are expanding this platform. And that we expect this company therefore to have multiple verticals as an underpinning of its total revenue picture. But our focus will continue, and our near-term revenue will continue to be generated in the data communications and intra datacenter."