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Fast provisioning capabilities enabled by signaling
intelligence and automated switching flexibility are becoming fundamental features of
next-generation networks based on optical transport. In recent years numerous research
and development projects, standardization activities, and a large number of publications
have been devoted to fast-provisioning-enabled optical networks. However, in the related
research activities less attention has been paid to network state evolution during the
provisioning process. Our main scope is, based on a three-phase network development life
cycle, to define different consolidation strategies to improve the performance of
provisioning-oriented optical networks. The proposal is motivated by the inherent lack
of capacity efficiency of optical channel provisioning processes.
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