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OPENFLOW/SDN FOR OPTICAL NETWORKS
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OpenFlow for Other Optical Switching Paradigms
OpenFlow for OBS Networks
After decades of development, optical networking has witnessed great
improvements, especially the gradual maturity of subwavelength optical
switching technologies. Among those, OBS [51] network is regarded as
one of the most promising paradigms for future optical Internet deploy-
ment because it is capable of providing on-demand transparent optical
bandwidth to bursty data traffic by using commercially available fast
switches. Until now, several network testbeds have been successfully dem-
onstrated, and c ...