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