The bandwidth of coherent DWDM optical transport modems has increased to 1.6 Tbps per wavelength, and pluggable DWDM coherent line optics has increased to 800 Gbps per wavelength. How these new modems and pluggables can enhance middle-mile network performance will be shown. Next Generation PON technology will be described that can take advantage of all of this increased bandwidth fed to the access from the middle-mile. Speaker: Isaac Kim, Senior System Engineer at Ciena