Benefits of active stateful PCE for flexgrid networks

Relevant benefits of the active stateful PCE architecture are experimentally demonstrated on a flexgrid network testbed. Two experiments are reported, including a first demo on PCE-controlled code-adaptation applied to a 1Tb/s super-channel.

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