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We need to manage mapping IP packets to wavelengths
- This is a very similar task to matching IP packets to VCs on NBMA networks (and VCs on FR and ATM are scarce resources too, so 1-1 is not sensible)
- Main difference is that each packet can be shredded to ATM cells, whereas we want to burst multiple packets onto the same wavelength before going to the next one, so...