10 Apr
2009
10 Apr
'09
2:31 p.m.
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.