Lumentum sees sales more than double as AI demand swells
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Optics and photonics suppliers like Lumentum more than doubling sales on AI demand show that bandwidth and interconnect, not just GPUs, are gating data center build-outs. If you’re planning high-density clusters, treat optical supply and topology as first-order constraints in your capacity models.
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