Add-drop multiplexer Add-drop multiplexer An add-drop multiplexer (ADM) is an important element of an optical fiber network. A multiplexer combines, or multiplexes, several lower-bandwidth streams of data into a single beam of light. An "add-drop" multiplexer also has the capability to "add" one or more lower-bandwidth signals to an existing high-bandwidth data stream, and at the same time can extract or "drop" other low-bandwidth signals, removing them from the stream and redirecting them to some other network path. This is used as a local "on-ramp" and "off-ramp" to the high-speed network. ADMs can be used both in long-haul core networks and in
Suffer the Children (song) Suffer the Children (song) "Suffer the Children" is a song by the British band Tears for Fears. Written and sung by Roland Orzabal and released in November 1981, it was the band's first release, recorded in Bath, England shortly after the break-up of Orzabal and Curt Smith's previous band Graduate. The song would eventually be re-recorded for inclusion on Tears for Fears' debut LP "The Hurting" (1983). Along with "Pale Shelter", "Suffer the Children" was one of two demo songs that landed Tears for Fears their first record deal with Phonogram in 1981. The song's title bears resemblance to a