ocr: MULTIPLEXING AND INVERSE MULTIPLEXING Customer CPE CPE CPE Premises Equipment High-speed Low-speed digital lines digitol lines Inverse (LAN) Multiplexer (LANI multiplexer High-speed - Low-speed digital lines (WAN) digital lines (WAN) Multiplexing Inverse multiplexing FIGURE 1: A multiplexer combines mulliple low-speed lines from the customer premises into a single nigh-speed line on the WAN. An inverse mulliplexer lakes muitiple low-speed lines from the WAN and makes them look like one high-speed line to the customer premise equipment.