Quote of OCP Summit: 'Optical has been 5 years away for the past 15 years'
BenBajarin · x · 2026-10-15
Analyst Ben Bajarin shared his favorite quote from the OCP (Open Compute Project) summit floor:
> "Optical has been 5 years away for the past 15 years."
The quip neatly captures the industry's long-running skepticism about optical interconnect adoption in data centers: repeatedly hyped, perpetually delayed. As AI clusters push bandwidth and power limits, the question of when optical finally ships at scale remains open.
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