[113391] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Forward Erasure Correction (FEC) and network performance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Fri Apr 10 14:44:49 2009
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:31:42 -0400
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <49DF853E.9050400@eeph.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
