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No COBO compliant, in this case means conforming to a standard. 


The goal of COBO is for co-packaged optics to have the same openness that exists today when building any Data or Telecom system, having a multi-vendor choice regarding the chips and optics used.

Telecommunications standards (wire and wireless) are the underlying "laws" that govern the emerging Global Information Highway and the existing telephone system.
Telecommunications networks in every country in the world utilize formal telecommunications standards to physically interwork. Without public agreements and the telecommunications standards that codify such agreements, wide-area voice and data communications would not be possible.

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