Sort of. Optical channel routers already exist. (I think they are even commercially available from companies like Infinera.) This work appears to address man

Sort of. Optical channel routers already exist. (I think they are even commercially available from companies like Infinera.) This work appears to address management protocols that rapidly redirect optical channels based on network traffic needs. I am suspicious of the touted throughput increase, at least for personal applications. The public Internet tends to be dominated by ad hoc video and audio loads, which are fairly predictable in aggregate. There probably are some commercial users (like TV networks) who have bursty 100+ Gbps loads that could benefit, but most of them will want to purchase dedicated links.