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Speaker 1: to taking stock with Kathleen Hays and Pim Fox on
Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio. Acacia Communications reporting their first results and performance
Speaker 1: since the I p O that took place in May.
Speaker 1: Here to tell us more is John Gavin. He is
Speaker 1: the chief financial officer and he joins us now. John,
Speaker 1: thanks very much for being with us, Oh, thanks for
Speaker 1: having us on the call today. Tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about Acacia Communications. I know they're based in Boston,
Speaker 1: home to Bloomberg. Tell us a little bit about the
Speaker 1: company and how you help traditional telecom carriers. Sure I'd
Speaker 1: be glad too. So little history in Acacia, founded back
Speaker 1: in June of two thousand and nine. We're here in
Speaker 1: the old Mannard Mill complex where Digital Equipment Corporation was
Speaker 1: headquartered for many years. What we really do is we
Speaker 1: build a product called a optical interconnect module, and that
Speaker 1: module is is a subsystem that sits into the switching
Speaker 1: gear for fiber optics networks. And what we do is
Speaker 1: we have a two silicon building blocks, a DSP, a
Speaker 1: SICK and a technology and those two chips have radically
Speaker 1: simplified building some of these high speed switching devices that
Speaker 1: are required for the bandwidth needed by the telecommunications and
Speaker 1: content service providers around the globe. So what you make
Speaker 1: it easier for them to build their high speed networks,
Speaker 1: or you make it easier for them to build them smaller,
Speaker 1: or you make it easier for them to go faster.
Speaker 1: What is it? No, that's a great question. So we
Speaker 1: we do almost all the above. So today one of
Speaker 1: the biggest problems and networks is is that the older
Speaker 1: fiber optics systems were either ten or forty gigabyte. And
Speaker 1: because of the explosive demand for all the applications out there,
Speaker 1: be it voice based, be it mobile, be a cloud computing,
Speaker 1: all of those applications now have increased the worldwide demand
Speaker 1: for capacity. So our products have taken those switching capacities.
Speaker 1: So at the core of what we do, we take
Speaker 1: the LightWave signals, we convert them to digital signals and
Speaker 1: back if need be, at very very high speeds. So
Speaker 1: by being able to increase the capacity of the of
Speaker 1: the devices that they have, they're able to almost instantly
Speaker 1: increase their throughput capacity to handle these ever increasing workloads
Speaker 1: that are that are proliferating the networks around the world today. John,
Speaker 1: it also seems that you've been able to at least
Speaker 1: turn some investor money into even more investor money. Your
Speaker 1: stock is of forty you see, your stock is of
Speaker 1: forty percent today. Yes, you have a lot of happy
Speaker 1: people there. We have a lot of happy employees, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of happy investors, and it's it's been
Speaker 1: a very good day for occasion. Yeah. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: if you double your revenue year over year, that kind
Speaker 1: of thing tends to happen. How how is that doubling happening.
Speaker 1: Are you winning business from competitors, or is this business
Speaker 1: just growing so much where you're operating in China and
Speaker 1: Germany here in the US. Well, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I think what's happening right now is that there's a
Speaker 1: glow mobile explosion and need for bandwidth build out the
Speaker 1: sheer rock capacity, and that's happening at various parts of
Speaker 1: the network. So originally the long haul part of the network,
Speaker 1: these are these are very long connections sometimes under the sea,
Speaker 1: trans specific Transatlantic. A lot of those connections were upgraded first.
Speaker 1: Now we're seeing this second wave where the metro location,
Speaker 1: so these are a lot more connections in major metropolitan
Speaker 1: areas across the world needing this increase or upgrade incapacity.
Speaker 1: And then, as you said earlier, there are certain markets
Speaker 1: that are real high growth right now, is particularly in China,
Speaker 1: where there is really almost a national agenda to upgrade
Speaker 1: their infrastructure so that their internet backbone activity can be
Speaker 1: at at a much highest throughput level. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of market moving factors that have created global demand
Speaker 1: for our products that we support our customers for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your three year growth in China is more than in Germany.
Speaker 1: You're basically tripling over three years. Um, where's your where
Speaker 1: is your focus right now? Because those two markets are
Speaker 1: bigger for you than say the US or other European nations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those maybe more traditional market growth areas for US, but
Speaker 1: we're really seeing a trend of global demand for these products. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, in North America, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: the web scale service providers who are now starting to
Speaker 1: build out next generation networks of their own networks, and
Speaker 1: so they're starting to be at the beginning parts of
Speaker 1: ramping up their capacity in order to service their customers better.
Speaker 1: So we're really seeing demand factors across the board globally
Speaker 1: increase for the types of products that we produce, John,
Speaker 1: are you hiring right now? What kinds of positions are
Speaker 1: you looking to fill? Yees? So that's a great question.
Speaker 1: We're always hiring. Um, we have very technical product as
Speaker 1: you can imagine, so we're always looking for are people
Speaker 1: who have optical and electrical engineering expertise. Uh, we're hiding
Speaker 1: across the board. In terms of operational activity, a lot
Speaker 1: of what we do is very complex manufacturing. So our
Speaker 1: operations team is is growing as well, so it's really
Speaker 1: across the board in a lot of technical disciplines and
Speaker 1: always looking for for the best and brightest. All right, John,
Speaker 1: thanks so much. John. Gavin there the chief financial officer
Speaker 1: of Acacia Communications three and a half billion dollar market cap,
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