Chris Coldren
Analyst · Morgan Stanley
I'd also like to tag on to the $100 million piece. I think there's something important to highlight, right, that it's not $100 million – a little bit across every product line. Product lines that are not constrained are up tens of percent year-over-year, whereas, as Alan highlighted earlier on the question on ROADMs, ROADMs are the other direction. But as they are integral to the network and systems, we expect they should be running at comparable rates as the other product lines that are not constrained at the present time. And lo and behold, $100 million kind of reflects that. If you were to sort of hypothetically add that back to existing or guidance, then all of a sudden all the product lines are up in similar tens of percent year-over-year kind of basis. Turning back to the wireless fronthaul, we participate in two ways, specifically in wireless fronthaul today. One is, as we've talked about in prior calls, supplying the DML lasers or 10 gig going to 25 gig lasers in our what we would call datacom, even though it's a telecom application, but very analogous to the kind of lasers we supply into hyperscale data centers. That business has been depressed, as we talked about earlier, but it has run at several tens of millions of dollars per quarter. And we believe that, over time, it can get back to that. So, several tens of millions of dollars per quarter opportunity. The other way we play is, as Alan alluded to, 10 gig and 25 gig tunable lasers as WDM approaches start to penetrate wireless fronthaul as well as in the cable MSO fiber deep architectures. Collectively, those we expect very early stages, but are starting to ramp up to be multi-hundred million dollar a year market opportunity. So, a very exciting leg to our story, in that over the past n number of years, our telecom transmission has been reserved, if you will, to metro, long haul, coherence applications. And we haven't participated more in access or edge applications where the volumes are quite high. And now, with the adoption of fiber deep and WDM architectures in 5G fronthaul, a very large market opens up. That's very unique to our kind of tunable laser technology.