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Telecommunication plays an extremely important role in our present day society. It has enabled the globalization of industry and the economic growth of today, and it has provided public access to world-wide available information. The demand for bandwidth both by existing applications and new emerging high-speed applications is ever increasing. The World Wide Web application alone, for example, requires a yearly eightfold increase in bandwidth per user [Gre96]. Examples of emerging high-speed Wide Area Network (WAN) applications requiring bit rates in the order of 1 Gb/s are medical image access and distribution, and multimedia conferencing [Gre93]. Video-On-Demand (VOD) is a typical emerging high-speed Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) application [Nat95].
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Wedzinga, G. (2003). Introduction. In: Photonic Slot Routing in Optical Transport Networks. Broadband Networks and Services Series, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0317-0_1
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