They talked about business strategies to grow revenues and CAPEX versus OPEX budgeting to maximize profitability.

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This starts with optimizing capital expenditure (CAPEX) on network infrastructure while lowering or maintaining operational expenditure (OPEX).

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What was once CAPEX increasingly becomes OPEX, and long-term risk falls accordingly.

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The company also looks set to see meaningful margin compression as gross margins for the Playbook dilute corporate averages and they grow opex to support the new products.

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It expands GE's existing LNG portfolio and is the first available in a 10, 000-gallons-a-day capacity that reduces demand-side adoption risk and requires a remarkably low CapEx and OpEx commitment.

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This will be earnings accretive and lower their OpEx.

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Brocade is building automation technology that is VM aware within their switches so that when a VM is migrated, the network and storage components needed for it to continue to function are also automatically reconfigured, thereby minimizing the manual labor that an administrator needs and decreasing your OpEx costs by increased automation.

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