Am 01.07.2012 um 21:01 schrieb James Bensley:

> [15.24 Mbit/s raw bit rate compared to 8.128 Mbit/s net] is quite a drop in 
> speed and I'm trying to understand where this is happening.
...
> According to that extract, it all disappeared because of [Reed-Solomon] 
> encoding, which is hugely vague.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed-Solomon_error_correction#Data_storage

The second paragraph explains that typically the raw bit rate is twice the net 
rate.

The raw bitstream is then encoded further as HDLC or ATM.


Stefan

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