> I'm a little vague on the term "MUX," ...

MUX = Abbreviation for MUltipleXer, that is something that switches from
line 1 to line 2 to line....

The Telephone Companies use high-speed multiplexers to sample, say 600
telephone lines (analog) one after the other, sample and briefly hold each
voltage while it is converted to a digital pulse code, and send this signal
down a single co-axial cable/microwave relay/optical fiber.  At the other
end, a DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter)turns it back into a close
approximation of the original voltage, and a DEMUX (guess what it does :-)
splits it up into 600 telephone lines.

Boyd Ramsay

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