Sehat Sutardja
Analyst · Harlan Sur, JPMorgan
I think you're talking about 2 different market segments. One is the enterprise segments, where the 10 gigabits are starting to become bigger -- not bigger, tends to become more sizable in terms of volume. It's still much smaller volume compared to the gigabit segment. But as people are building this bigger centers, building server farms, those 10 gigabits will become more important. So we are playing into this market. We have 10 gigabit drives and 10 gigabit switches. We just recently introduced our super high port count. 10 gigabit switch on a single chip, on a single chip, the highest in the industry. So we do expect to play -- to gain market share in this area. But the other segments that we talked about in the prepared statement is in the PON. So as many people are aware, okay, Marvell, okay, historically, never play in the segments of cable modem or DSL, ADSL or VDSL, because we didn't enter into the telecom side of the market until recently. Our first entry into this market is through our investment in PON. Specifically, we decided to lever off the market by integrating powerful processors in EPON and GPON, and all the voice processing, the switching functionality, everything in the single chip. And the result is now becoming evident that, okay, we're getting very good traction into the market in China. We are getting tier 1 engagements. You see the Google ramp, the Google deployments of PON. They were the first one in the world that deploy 1 gigabit per second per user. This is like unheard of. We're talking about multiple about most people, they have ADSL running in like half a megabit or 1 megabit, or maybe if you're nearby the office, the telephone office, telco office, maybe you can get several megabit per second. And even if you have VDSL, if you're lucky enough to be living nearby those remote field, you might be able to get 45 megabits per second with VDSL, if you're lucky enough. We're talking about orders of magnitude of higher throughput in optical. And we're seeing this, okay, in a lot of parts of the world, developing world, where people are now deploying mainly just optical because optical will be -- the optical networks in the wide-area networks will be the technology for the next 100 years. Whatever you put, invest in on the ground, will stay there in the next 100 years, while copper is already at the end of its life. So our growth into the networking space in one sense that we will be better than the market because we have good tractions in the PON and we also -- the PON is also naturally is replacing ADSL and VDSL and cable modem because of its sheer physical advantage, physics that is so much better than copper. And I guess it's a longer explanation.