Atul Bhatnagar
Analyst · Northland Capital
No problem. So Q4, 60 gigahertz is still in early deployments, POCs, trials. And I think on the past calls, I have said there's a very well-defined life cycle in our business. Every product line we create is reasonably sophisticated. So it takes customers a good, I would say, 3 months, 4 months to do trials, POCs, get to know lay of the land, understand the wireless characteristics, noise characteristics, environmental characteristics. So my sense is Q4 we, will -- there will be some contribution by 60 gigahertz, but we are in that phase.
Acceleration of 60 gigahertz in terms of revenue starts when those POCs multiply into real deployments. And that will run now for a couple of years because once they get the confidence that this multi-gigabit technology is going to give them next-generation architecture, then a lot of things is seen in the access. So I think 2021, but you will see some contribution.
And what we are very excited about is that customers are seeing 1.8 gigabit, 1.7 gigabit, that type of throughput, breakthrough throughput speeds and feeds. So actually, their excitement is ratcheting up.
Geography-wise, I think Stephen kind of commented as well we see strong North America. Europe, there are some lockdowns, so we'll see how that pans out. But overall still, people still need connectivity, and people are figuring out how to work in the COVID environment. So while these lockdowns are there, I think the world is figuring how to work in that situation.
At CALA, we talked about a fantastic record quarter in Q3. Good, broad-based acceleration.
And Asia is improving, but that definitely is a region which we think will do better and better as lockdowns finish there. So that's kind of geographically where we are.