Incubators have lots of uses.
You can use them to artificially hatch eggs. Or to care for infants in a hospital. It's not a laboratory where people wear white coats and carry test tubes. It's a laboratory that looks and feels just like a regular central office, the location where a customer's home and business telephone lines are connected to switching equipment that can switch calls locally or to long-distance carrier phone offices. In Afferton's lab, today's central office equipment is racked right next to future-generation equipment.