How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

2114.236 - 2140.053 Gary Smith

No. I mean, basically, it's this technology, the actual variant that we focus on is the coherent technology, and that's what has enabled this DWDM to scale so much. But there are other technologies around it as well that we've developed, like the SERDES, which is the serializer, deserializer, and those kinds of things, which is the analog conversion. which is incredibly difficult to do.