This may be a big thing for BCOM - we'll see what happens:
The engineer was suggesting building the telecom industry's first "white box" transponder, made with off-the-shelf parts such as chips from Broadcom and Acacia Communications, optical equipment from Lumentum, and software from one of the many new networking startups cropping up these days.
http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-facebooks-telecom-infrastructure-project-2017-5