Subject: ECC limits? (was RE: An alternative to TCP ...)

From: "James P. Salsman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:22:11 -0800 (PST)

>... To reach 10 Gbps, you will need a BER of 1.E-14.... 
> There are very many ways to not achieve that....

Are there any limits to what error correcting codes can provide?

If you have 15 Gbps with a natural error rate of 1 in 100, 
I think you can still get better than 1 in 1e14 bit errors 
at 10 Gbps with traditional techniques such as Reed-Solomon.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Cheers,
James