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Whether from the data center to the consumer or from high-performance computing environments to service providers, the need for increased bandwidth for transporting data continues to grow. The latest Visual Networking Index forecast by Cisco predicts that Internet traffic will grow fourfold over the next four years, with video content being the number one component driving the growth.