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Acknowledging the predominantly hubbed traffic profile in the metro, we apply digital subcarrier multiplexing techniques to 400Gb/s coherent pluggable optics, enabling a point-to-multipoint architecture which shows TCO savings of 76% over a five-year period compared to a traditional architecture based on ROADMs and point-to-point transponder.
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