Muxponder
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Optical communications
In optical fiber communications, a muxponder is the element that sends and receives the optical signal on a fiberFiber
Fiber is a class of materials that are continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces, similar to lengths of thread.They are very important in the biology of both plants and animals, for holding tissues together....
in much the same way as a transponder
Transponder
In telecommunication, the term transponder has the following meanings:...
except that the muxponder has the additional functionality of multiplexing
Multiplexing
The multiplexed signal is transmitted over a communication channel, which may be a physical transmission medium. The multiplexing divides the capacity of the low-level communication channel into several higher-level logical channels, one for each message signal or data stream to be transferred...
multiple sub-rate client interfaces onto the line interface.