"I think the first thing we need to get past is the limitations of copper. We pretty much understand that every time we bump up the speeds of the SerDes, the wires get shorter and shorter. And so, we're constraining and constraining and constraining our ability to compose and mix and match resources. So optical seems like a clear path, long term."
“Ultimately, we want to go to significantly smaller subarray sizes on our radars, towards digital beamforming. Optical I/O is a key to that as we integrate more advanced digital receiver technology into our systems. This could be a big boon for us in other areas where there are even more SWaP constraints, including airborne applications and missile applications. The ability to efficiently remote high-rate data from a digital receiver to another place in the airframe can be very important.”