WEBVTT - Acacia's Gavin on EPS: Global Explosion for Bandwidth (Audio)

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<v Speaker 1>to taking stock with Kathleen Hays and Pim Fox on

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomberg Radio. Acacia Communications reporting their first results and performance

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<v Speaker 1>since the I p O that took place in May.

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<v Speaker 1>Here to tell us more is John Gavin. He is

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<v Speaker 1>the chief financial officer and he joins us now. John,

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<v Speaker 1>thanks very much for being with us, Oh, thanks for

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<v Speaker 1>having us on the call today. Tell us a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit about Acacia Communications. I know they're based in Boston,

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<v Speaker 1>home to Bloomberg. Tell us a little bit about the

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<v Speaker 1>company and how you help traditional telecom carriers. Sure I'd

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<v Speaker 1>be glad too. So little history in Acacia, founded back

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<v Speaker 1>in June of two thousand and nine. We're here in

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<v Speaker 1>the old Mannard Mill complex where Digital Equipment Corporation was

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<v Speaker 1>headquartered for many years. What we really do is we

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<v Speaker 1>build a product called a optical interconnect module, and that

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<v Speaker 1>module is is a subsystem that sits into the switching

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<v Speaker 1>gear for fiber optics networks. And what we do is

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<v Speaker 1>we have a two silicon building blocks, a DSP, a

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<v Speaker 1>SICK and a technology and those two chips have radically

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<v Speaker 1>simplified building some of these high speed switching devices that

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<v Speaker 1>are required for the bandwidth needed by the telecommunications and

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<v Speaker 1>content service providers around the globe. So what you make

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<v Speaker 1>it easier for them to build their high speed networks,

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<v Speaker 1>or you make it easier for them to build them smaller,

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<v Speaker 1>or you make it easier for them to go faster.

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<v Speaker 1>What is it? No, that's a great question. So we

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<v Speaker 1>we do almost all the above. So today one of

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<v Speaker 1>the biggest problems and networks is is that the older

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<v Speaker 1>fiber optics systems were either ten or forty gigabyte. And

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<v Speaker 1>because of the explosive demand for all the applications out there,

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<v Speaker 1>be it voice based, be it mobile, be a cloud computing,

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<v Speaker 1>all of those applications now have increased the worldwide demand

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<v Speaker 1>for capacity. So our products have taken those switching capacities.

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<v Speaker 1>So at the core of what we do, we take

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<v Speaker 1>the LightWave signals, we convert them to digital signals and

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<v Speaker 1>back if need be, at very very high speeds. So

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<v Speaker 1>by being able to increase the capacity of the of

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<v Speaker 1>the devices that they have, they're able to almost instantly

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<v Speaker 1>increase their throughput capacity to handle these ever increasing workloads

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<v Speaker 1>that are that are proliferating the networks around the world today. John,

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<v Speaker 1>it also seems that you've been able to at least

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<v Speaker 1>turn some investor money into even more investor money. Your

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<v Speaker 1>stock is of forty you see, your stock is of

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<v Speaker 1>forty percent today. Yes, you have a lot of happy

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<v Speaker 1>people there. We have a lot of happy employees, we

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<v Speaker 1>have a lot of happy investors, and it's it's been

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<v Speaker 1>a very good day for occasion. Yeah. I mean, obviously

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<v Speaker 1>if you double your revenue year over year, that kind

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<v Speaker 1>of thing tends to happen. How how is that doubling happening.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you winning business from competitors, or is this business

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<v Speaker 1>just growing so much where you're operating in China and

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<v Speaker 1>Germany here in the US. Well, that's a great question.

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<v Speaker 1>I think what's happening right now is that there's a

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<v Speaker 1>glow mobile explosion and need for bandwidth build out the

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<v Speaker 1>sheer rock capacity, and that's happening at various parts of

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<v Speaker 1>the network. So originally the long haul part of the network,

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<v Speaker 1>these are these are very long connections sometimes under the sea,

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<v Speaker 1>trans specific Transatlantic. A lot of those connections were upgraded first.

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<v Speaker 1>Now we're seeing this second wave where the metro location,

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<v Speaker 1>so these are a lot more connections in major metropolitan

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<v Speaker 1>areas across the world needing this increase or upgrade incapacity.

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<v Speaker 1>And then, as you said earlier, there are certain markets

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<v Speaker 1>that are real high growth right now, is particularly in China,

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<v Speaker 1>where there is really almost a national agenda to upgrade

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<v Speaker 1>their infrastructure so that their internet backbone activity can be

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<v Speaker 1>at at a much highest throughput level. So there's a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of market moving factors that have created global demand

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<v Speaker 1>for our products that we support our customers for. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>your three year growth in China is more than in Germany.

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<v Speaker 1>You're basically tripling over three years. Um, where's your where

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<v Speaker 1>is your focus right now? Because those two markets are

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<v Speaker 1>bigger for you than say the US or other European nations. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>those maybe more traditional market growth areas for US, but

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<v Speaker 1>we're really seeing a trend of global demand for these products. So,

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<v Speaker 1>for instance, in North America, there are a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>the web scale service providers who are now starting to

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<v Speaker 1>build out next generation networks of their own networks, and

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<v Speaker 1>so they're starting to be at the beginning parts of

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<v Speaker 1>ramping up their capacity in order to service their customers better.

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<v Speaker 1>So we're really seeing demand factors across the board globally

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<v Speaker 1>increase for the types of products that we produce, John,

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<v Speaker 1>are you hiring right now? What kinds of positions are

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<v Speaker 1>you looking to fill? Yees? So that's a great question.

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<v Speaker 1>We're always hiring. Um, we have very technical product as

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<v Speaker 1>you can imagine, so we're always looking for are people

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<v Speaker 1>who have optical and electrical engineering expertise. Uh, we're hiding

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<v Speaker 1>across the board. In terms of operational activity, a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of what we do is very complex manufacturing. So our

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<v Speaker 1>operations team is is growing as well, so it's really

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<v Speaker 1>across the board in a lot of technical disciplines and

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<v Speaker 1>always looking for for the best and brightest. All right, John,

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<v Speaker 1>thanks so much. John. Gavin there the chief financial officer

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<v Speaker 1>of Acacia Communications three and a half billion dollar market cap,

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<v Speaker 1>and as PIM says, fort of that comes from today's

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