# Components of AWS Elemental Statmux in a cluster
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To create an MPTS using Elemental Statmux, you need:
+ Elemental Live channels that produce an SPTS output.
+ An MPTS that you create using Elemental Statmux. Elemental Statmux*muxes* two or more SPTS outputs into one MPTS output.

![\[Diagram showing three Channel boxes connected to a single MPTS box.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elemental-cl3/latest/ug/images/diagram-cmpts.png)