Forward Erasure Correction (FEC) and network performance

Fri Apr 10 18:31:42 UTC 2009

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.