What is the geographic split of Fabrinet's shipments 
 any -- realizing you don't guide by these specific segments, but I wonder if you have any kind of anecdotal commentary as you look forward to that telecom growth continuing. Do you have any kind of similar thoughts around what you expect out of the silicon photonics as you head into next quarter and throughout the year? Do you expect that to return to growth at some point?
Seamus Grady -- C
Silicon photonics, I think a lot of that, I think on the telecom side, we think it's going to remain strong. And also on the datacom side, with several of our customers, one or two of our customers have experienced a little bit of softness in the data centers so that does affect us on the silicon photonics side. But overall, we think -- and again, we only guide a quarter at a time. But overall I think the sentiment out there that we hear is the telecom will be quite strong and datacom is a little bit flat and will continue to be flat, we think.
Tim Savageaux -- Northland Capital Markets -- Analyst
Great. Thanks very much. I'll pass it on.
Seamus Grady -- C
Thank you, Tim.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Alex Henderson of Needham. Your line is open.
Alex Henderson -- Needham and Company -- Analyst
I was hoping you could give us the geographic split.
TS Ng -- Chief Financial Officer
In terms of shipments, no more changes. North America, shy of 50%. And the rest are split between China, the rest of the world. Southeast Asia is also a big portion.
We ship quite a bit to Southeast Asia country.
Alex Henderson -- Needham and Company -- Analyst
And can you tell me what you said about the growth going forward in telecom again? I'm not sure I got it right in my notes. What was your expectation for telecom growth sequentially into the fourth -- CY 4Q, FY 2Q?
Seamus Grady -- C
Well, we haven't guided specific growth for telecom I guess the discussion was really more around overall sentiment. The sentiment we hear from our customers is that telecom will remain, we think, quite strong. Datacom is flat, but we haven't given any specific guidance for our telecom revenue forward. We think we will do in next quarter.
Alex Henderson -- Needham and Company -- Analyst
I see. And one more question, if I could. Around the Israel operation, when would you expect to be able to actually generate some revenues from that facility? Is that six, nine months out? Or how far out does that take?
Seamus Grady -- C
I think we'll be -- we're targeting to be up and running and ready to rock and roll in the early part of next year, so the kind of January to March time frame, so we'll be ready to do business. But it takes a little bit of time then to when the business grows the business, but I think it should be contributing to a certain extent in the, I would say, in the June quarter. We would expect to see some revenue emanating from there in the June quarter, maybe a little bit earlier, but that's what we're thinking right now. So right now, we're fitting out the building and we're kind of fortunate that the building we got has a lot of the infrastructure because it was a semiconductor manufacturing facility originally.
It has a lot of the facilities infrastructure already in place. So that shortens the time line for us. And we're planning to install the full suite of equipment, SMT equipment, optical packaging equipment and very importantly for our customers, full failure analysis capability there. So we'll replicate all these on a smaller scale, the same set of capabilities that we have in Bangkok actually.
Alex Henderson -- Needham and Company -- Analyst
Do you see that facility as being roughly comparable sized to Fabrinet West?
Seamus Grady -- C
It's a smaller facility. In terms of square footage, it smaller. The Fabrinet West facility, it's a great location, it's a great facility. The building itself is probably a little bit bigger than what we would actually need.
So it's a smaller facility. I think terms of square footage, it's about...
TS Ng -- Chief Financial Officer
20,000.
Seamus Grady -- C
Roughly 20,000 square feet. So it's an ideal size
 any -- realizing you don't guide by these specific segments, but I wonder if you have any kind of anecdotal commentary as you look forward to that telecom growth continuing. Do you have any kind of similar thoughts around what you expect out of the silicon photonics as you head into next quarter and throughout the year? Do you expect that to return to growth at some point?
Seamus Grady -- C
Silicon photonics, I think a lot of that, I think on the telecom side, we think it's going to remain strong. And also on the datacom side, with several of our customers, one or two of our customers have experienced a little bit of softness in the data centers so that does affect us on the silicon photonics side. But overall, we think -- and again, we only guide a quarter at a time. But overall I think the sentiment out there that we hear is the telecom will be quite strong and datacom is a little bit flat and will continue to be flat, we think.
Tim Savageaux -- Northland Capital Markets -- Analyst
Great. Thanks very much. I'll pass it on.
Seamus Grady -- C
Thank you, Tim.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Alex Henderson of Needham. Your line is open.
Alex Henderson -- Needham and Company -- Analyst
I was hoping you could give us the geographic split.
TS Ng -- Chief Financial Officer
In terms of shipments, no more changes. North America, shy of 50%. And the rest are split between China, the rest of the world. Southeast Asia is also a big portion.
We ship quite a bit to Southeast Asia country.
Alex Henderson -- Needham and Company -- Analyst
And can you tell me what you said about the growth going forward in telecom again? I'm not sure I got it right in my notes. What was your expectation for telecom growth sequentially into the fourth -- CY 4Q, FY 2Q?
Seamus Grady -- C
Well, we haven't guided specific growth for telecom I guess the discussion was really more around overall sentiment. The sentiment we hear from our customers is that telecom will remain, we think, quite strong. Datacom is flat, but we haven't given any specific guidance for our telecom revenue forward. We think we will do in next quarter.
Alex Henderson -- Needham and Company -- Analyst
 I see. And one more question, if I could. Around the Israel operation, when would you expect to be able to actually generate some revenues from that facility? Is that six, nine months out? Or how far out does that take?
Seamus Grady -- C
I think we'll be -- we're targeting to be up and running and ready to rock and roll in the early part of next year, so the kind of January to March time frame, so we'll be ready to do business. But it takes a little bit of time then to when the business grows the business, but I think it should be contributing to a certain extent in the, I would say, in the June quarter. We would expect to see some revenue emanating from there in the June quarter, maybe a little bit earlier, but that's what we're thinking right now. So right now, we're fitting out the building and we're kind of fortunate that the building we got has a lot of the infrastructure because it was a semiconductor manufacturing facility originally.
It has a lot of the facilities infrastructure already in place. So that shortens the time line for us. And we're planning to install the full suite of equipment, SMT equipment, optical packaging equipment and very importantly for our customers, full failure analysis capability there. So we'll replicate all these on a smaller scale, the same set of capabilities that we have in Bangkok actually.
Alex Henderson -- Needham and Company -- Analyst
Do you see that facility as being roughly comparable sized to Fabrinet West?
Seamus Grady -- C
It's a smaller facility. In terms of square footage, it smaller. The Fabrinet West facility, it's a great location, it's a great facility. The building itself is probably a little bit bigger than what we would actually need.
So it's a smaller facility. I think terms of square footage, it's about...
TS Ng -- Chief Financial Officer
20,000.
Seamus Grady -- C
Roughly 20,000 square feet. So it's an ideal size