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Selfrouting of optical data through a photonic packet switch, with user data at 700 Mbit/s, is demonstrated. The switch is transparent to the bandwidth of the optical data thus allowing essentially unlimited payload bit rate.
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Fortenberry et al. (1991) studied this question.
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