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>> There’s an incredible amount of investment occurring on a regular basis today.
>> Ciena builds the products that actually light the fiber optic networks across the world across the United States.
>> As we start to get busier and we start to expand and networks start to build there’s a whole ecosystem and a whole value chain behind us that grows with us right there’s people who make technology and build chips,
>> there’s people who put those parts together there’s people who deliver those parts there’s people who drive those to the door there’s people who install those parts there’s engineers who build them and design them.”
>> I’ve got people who program from the country people who run online shopping outlets, things of this nature and they would not be able to do that without the ability to go to broadband.
>> And broadband generally in the communities where they have it we see that people are staying there the communities are at least staying stable.”
>> We’re an infrastructure organization we build broadband facilities for carriers. We have five thousand employees, about seven thousand pieces of equipment. We operate in all fifty states and in Canada. We know that all the states are going to be getting money…
>> to develop broadband plans within their states so that helps us in terms of being able to hire more people within those areas.”
>> We hear from everyday from people who call us up and they’re at their ranch or at their farm home or at their cabin trying to run their business the trade the stock market and do the things that everybody wants to be able to do but from where they want to do it.”
>> We’ve made a commitment to buy over fifteen thousand alternative fuel vehicles over the next ten years.
>> What we’re doing will create roughly about a thousand to eleven hundred jobs per year over the life of our commitment.”
>> This industry is investing sixty to eighty billion dollars a year…
>> that’s billion with a "B" that’s a lot of money, it's more than any other industry is investing in the economy by far.