10 Apr
2009
10 Apr
'09
2:47 p.m.
Lamar Owen wrote:
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.
That *still* sounds good to me. There's a reason reliable transport protocols work the way they do... and integrity protection better than simple checksums is well-understood these days as well. Matthew Kaufman