ABSTRACT
The explosive growth of data, particularly Internet traffic, has led to a dramatic increase in demand for
transmission bandwidth imposing an immediate requirement for expanding the capacity current networks. An
additional driving force for higher capacity, enhanced functionality, and flexibility in optical networks is the
increased trend in interactive exchange of data and multimedia files. Due to the unpredictable and ever growing
size of data files and messages exchanged over global distances, the future communication grid must be agile in
time and able to react rapidly to support end-to-end bandwidth requirements for transmission of files of any
conceivable size.
