The report indicates that bandwidth requirements of network-aggregation nodes are growing at an even faster rate than end-station applications, which initiate the transmission and receipt of data.
Its final flourish before the end-station of Tirano is the viaduct at Brusio, which looks like two-thirds of a steeply banked colosseum as it delivers the train gently to the ground.
Tiangong-1 will demonstrate the critical technologies needed by China to build a fully fledged space station - something it has promised to do at the end of the decade.