Kaiam achieves this through patented use and packaging of lasers, optics, electronics and optical waveguides. Today’s primary method for communicating within and between data centers is high speed electronics, which has been the backbone of the data center ecosystem for 20 years. Due to the exponential increase in the amount of network traffic caused by streaming video, on-demand services, and other applications, older methods have exhausted their ability to keep up with rising demand for bandwidth and costs.