{TAIL ~ An optical fiber communications network} using a star coupler to broadcast a selected transmission received on incoming channels from one of {HEAD ~ a number} of stations, over an equal number of outgoing channels to all of the stations 
{ TAIL ~ An optical fiber communications network } using a star coupler to broadcast a selected transmission received on incoming channels from one of { HEAD ~ a number } of stations , over an equal number of outgoing channels to all of the stations
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