This is all I recall about an older update on the North Amercian Tier 1 partner (Suresh "We're still engaged"). This was a transcript from an interview with Adrian and Suresh (November 2021). I can't recall any durther updates, but might have been one.

[AB, 26:53] And the North American Tier 1 partner. Any updates you can give us on the working status with them? I think it was mentioned that there were discussions aimed at products to be designed qualified and incorporated into that customers product portfolio.

[SV 27:07] We’re still engaged. So, you know back in 2020 we kind of finished this technology validation/demonstration of our capabilities. There were several discussions around what kind of product one might design in with the customer. They have their own incumbent technologies, of course, just like a lot of other people they’re heavily invested in a certain way of doing things with silicon photonics, etc. So, at the end of the day a product was defined, but we didn’t have what needed to be designed for that particular product at that point in time, So we’ve designed it now. And by Q1 [2022], we should be in a position to have products that meet that specification that was defined, and then we would compete. Obviously, there are others that are servicing that market and that space today. [That] was one of the reasons we also did the deal we just announced a couple of months ago on the other supplier for the lasers. You know there are two things that we didn’t have. One was the laser that met the actual specifications that were required. Prior to that we were building our lasers at Denselight. [Those] didn’t meet the requirements that was needed for that particular application, so we worked with Almae and now we’ve got a deal with another supplier so that kind of solves that hole on the laser side. There were some unique filter designs that were required for the particular application, and we’ve gone through our couple of learning cycles. So we are doing this in parallel with all of our other activities so we are not really just focused only on this. We’re keeping the dialogue going, we’re providing status updates, and when we think we are ready with a value engineered product, then we will re-engage. But at this point in time we’re still in the development phase of the product that had been defined back in 2020.

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