It has its own ideas, which are set out if a few pages by an in-house team as ‘Technologies for optical transceivers and optical nodes to increase transmission capacity to 100 Tbps‘.

The really nice thing about this paper is that is that, even to a fibre novice such as me, it clearly explains the state-of-the-art why its proposed route is a valid.

Hats off to authors Takashi Hosida, Takahito Tanimura, Tomoyuki Kato, Shigeki Watanabe and Zhenning Tao.