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 Little Children of Keith Bennett and Pauline Reade were not attributed to Myra Hindley and Ian Brady until 1985, after "Suffer Little Children" had already been released. The phrase "Hindley wakes and Hindley says; Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, and says: 'Oh, wherever he has gone, I have gone'" is likely a pun on the title of Hindle Wakes, a silent film which made use of location filming in Blackpool and Manchester. First released on "The Smiths" in February 1984, it was re-released in May as a B-side of the single "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now". The "Manchester Evening News" reported