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In this work, the impact of hop constraints on the CAPEX of multi-layer IP/ MPLS over WSON networks is evaluated under different scenarios. By routing lightpaths with different number of transparent hops, the cost of networks varies significantly. This effect is thoroughly analyzed with a heuristic algorithm for different network topologies belonging to some European network operators. The main conclusion...