Which mechanism restricts throughput when bursty traffic overloads an optical wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) link?

💡 Explanation

Wavelength contention resolution bottlenecks throughput between source and destination, because multiple bursty streams compete for the same wavelength; therefore packets must be queued, rather than transmitted immediately due to the unavailability of the wavelength.

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