It appears that there are a number of companies that are introducing "product samples" at OFC 2017 this week, such as Oclaro, Emcore/MACOM, Infinera, Finisar, etc.
For example, "The Oclaro CFP8 is sampling today with volume production expected in the second half of 2017" (http://investor.oclaro.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1017990)
Is it possible that one of these companies (a Poet Partner) could be introducing a poet sample?
Could an NDA be structured to prevent Poet from disclosing information about the progress of development on their technology and/or their partnership agreement until such a product has gone into production?