With unrelenting traffic demands from enhanced broadband, next-generation cloud and business services, and emerging 5G deployments, network operators need to scale transport capacity cost-effectively while minimizing power consumption and total footprint. Increasing baud rates enables a proportional increase in the data rate of a wavelength with minimal impact on its reach, reducing cost per bit, power consumption, and footprint over a range of distances while also reducing OpEx. In this white paper, learn how optical vendors are evolving coherent optics technology with ever-higher baud rates to support ever-increasing bandwidth demand.