On Distributed Communications
VIII. The Multiplexing Station
One in a series of eleven Memoranda detailing the Distributed Adaptive Message Block Network, a proposed digital data communications system based on a distributed network concept. It describes the multiplexing stations that connect subscribers to switching nodes (detailed in RM-3763-PR) of the proposed broadband distributed network. The description is presented in engineering detail, showing how the station can process simultaneously traffic from as many as 1024 separate users, sending a mixture of start-stop teletype signals and synchronous signals at various rates.
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- Copyright: RAND Corporation
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- Pages: 121
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- Document Number: RM-3764
- Year: 1964
- Series: Research Memoranda
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Summary HTML
Acknowledgments HTML
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II. Operations Within the Multiplexing Station HTML
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III. Input/Output Devices HTML
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IV. User-to-User Considerations HTML
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V. Detailed System Configuration HTML
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VI. Major Equipment Complement HTML
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VII. Conclusions HTML
List of Publications in the Series HTML
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