Muxponder

Optical communications

In optical fiber communications, a muxponder is the element that sends and receives the optical signal on a fiber in much the same way as a transponder except that the muxponder has the additional functionality of multiplexing multiple sub-rate client interfaces onto the line interface^[1][2].

References

1. ^ Muxponder Ciena.com. Retrieved July 2011
2. ^ Muxponder. Cisco.com. Retrieved July 2011