Moska: Rainer, what is your sense of how POET's roadmap, as currently envisioned, does or does not depend on a scale-up of staff?

That's hard to assess from the outside, Moska, and I don't think I have enough insight to do so.

Having said that, as a rule of thumb I would say that production and sales and much more dependent of the number of staff than research and development while the later depends much more on the right kind of staff.

Regarding the 400 Gbps transceiver, I believe that in a first phase smart scientists and engineeres are needed for the necessary R&D while later its more on engineers and technicians running the foundry equipment. And that could be own staff and own equipment or outsourced capacities – or a combination of both.

Disclaimer: The above is nothing more than an outflow from my ivory tower.