3c-Link markets are driven by the need for higher bandwidth and lower cost as digital video, multimedia, music and other broadband services become ubiquitous and bandwidth consumption continues to double every year.

User-generated video content and rapidly growing digital video services including Internet-based and high-definition video (IPTV and HDTV) and mobile video are significantly increasing bandwidth demand. In order to accommodate this bandwidth increase, it is necessary for the data rate, reconfigurability and monitoring capabilities to be proliferated to access and edge portions of the network. Extending these capabilities closer to the customer means that the network can be provisioned and reconfigured dynamically and remotely.