Due to a continuous stream of technological advances, enormous amounts of traffic are aggregated onto a single fiber. The main drive for this is the cost savings that are realized due to the economy of scale. However, a major drawback is the impact of a single failure (e.g., cable cut), which can become very and even unacceptably large. This paper aims at discussing the different techniques that can be applied to deal with such circumstances.
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