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Forward Erasure Correction (FEC) and network performance
- Subject: Forward Erasure Correction (FEC) and network performance
- From: lowen at pari.edu (Lamar Owen)
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:31:42 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Friday 10 April 2009 13:43:26 Matthew Kaufman wrote:
> The bit error rate of copper is better than 1 error in 10^9 bits. The
> bit error rate of fiber is better than 1 error in 10^12 bits. So the
> packet loss rate of the transport media is approximately zero.*
This sounds pretty good, until you realize that it means you can expect 36
errors in 10 hours on a 100% utilized gigabit fiber link.