Spectrum usage for various SDM scenarios

Space division multiplexing (SDM) seems to be a promising solution with the scaling potential to overcome the possible capacity crunch problem in optical backbone networks. The main goal of this paper is to provide a detailed analysis of three SDM scenarios, namely, SDM-Fixed, SDM-Single, and SDM-Flexible in terms of the spectrum usage and the wastage of spectral resources due to guardbands and resource overprovisioning.

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