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Add/Drop Multiplexer What Does Add/Drop Multiplexer Mean? An add/drop multiplexer (ADM) is a critical element of an optical fiber network. It can combine (i.e. multiplex) several low-bandwidth streams of data into a single light beam; and simultaneously, it can drop or remove other low-bandwidth signals from the stream of data and direct them to other network routes. […]
Multiplexer What Does Multiplexer Mean? A multiplexer (MUX) is a network device that allows one or more analog or digital input signals to travel together over the same communications transmission link. The purpose of multiplexing is to combine and transmit signals over a single shared medium in order to optimize efficiency and decrease the total cost […]
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express - PCI Express What Does Peripheral Component Interconnect Express – PCI Express Mean? Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, better known as PCI Express (and abbreviated PCIe or PCI-E) and is a computer expansion card standard. PCI-E is used in motherboard-level connections and as an expansion card interface. The new standard for personal computers is called PCIe 3.0. One of […]
Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable What Does Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable Mean? Digital versatile disk rewritable (DVD-R) is a write-once (read only) digital versatile disc used to permanently store data files. It is an optical disc that generally has a storage capacity of 4.71 gigabytes (GB/s), seven times larger than a compact disc rewritable (CD-R) that holds around 700 megabytes […]