Nodal contention in colorless, directionless ROADMs using traffic growth models

We study the impact of intra-node contention in colorless, directionless ROADMs under traffic growth conditions. Our results indicate that modular add/drop banks provide blocking performance approaching that of contentionless architectures.

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