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Our arrangement, called \u201cMinTrim,\u201d solves this problem using simple integer linear programming, adding supplementary microrings, and allowing flexible assignment of wavelengths to network nodes as long as the resulting network presents maximal bandwidth. Each step is shown to improve bandwidth provisioning with lower power requirements. Evaluations on a sample network show that a baseline network could lose more than 40% bandwidth due to PVs. Such loss can be recovered by MinTrim to produce a network with 98.4% working bandwidth. In addition, the power required for arranging microrings is 39% lower than the baseline. 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