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
Is This What You Want? "Is This What You Want?" and the "uncommonly tender" "Fall Inside Your Eyes". Discussing the 2004 reissue in "Record Collector", Terry Staunton described Lomax's style as "[mining] the same seam as Joe Cocker, albeit with a voice neither as distinctive or as powerful" and singled out the "gentle balladry" of "Fall Inside Your Eyes" and "Baby You're A Lover" as highlights. Staunton concluded that Lomax's only Apple album was "a fairly pleasing blue-eyed soul set, which is probably more revered today than it was 35 years ago". Writing in the "Encyclopedia of Popular Music", Colin Larkin says that next to