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Link control, a new technique for protecting surviving channels on a per-link basis from fast power transients resulting from network reconfigurations or line failures, is demonstrated in a 560-km eight-amplifier wavelength division multiplexed link carrying seven 2.5-Gb/s channels plus the link control channel.
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