Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG)

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Technical FAQ

Companies like Arista and Ciena are also talking about 400G, are they competitors?

No, companies like Arista Networks and Ciena make networking equipment with 400G ports that can take optical pluggable transceivers. These transceivers contain the sort of optics that Lightwave Logic makes. So these companies would be customers, or customer’s customers (if they buy their optics from a transceiver integrator like Lumentum or Finisar). Arista makes Ethernet switches which have 400G ports on the front panel. You can plug copper cables into these ports to connect equipment a few meters away. But if you need to go longer, you plug in an optical transceiver to convert to an optical signal. The transceiver is where a LWLG modulator would be. In a way, you can think of the pluggable transceiver as a high-end analog of the adapters that plug into laptops to convert from USB to USB-C or HDMI, etc. Ciena makes transport systems that similarly have ports that our optics would plug into.

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