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 -- Stefan Bethke <s...@lassitu.de> Fon +49 151 14070811