My 2 penneth:
>Allow me to grumble a bit here. I'm part of a team funded by NASA to
>work on TCP over satellite issues. We went to a variety of industry meetings
>and talked about handling error rate issues and were told, point blank, by
>industry reps that the satellite community thought that was a waste of time
>because their (near-term) goal was to make satellite error rates consistent
>with fiber.
This is an idealist point of view put forth by the "satellite community".
They are presumably referring to using FEC and Reed-Solomon coding to get
the much-bandied term "fiber-like" BERs.
I would refer you to the real world experiences of Bill Sepmeier posted a
few days ago, all of which I can verify.
Jon.
[email protected] Chief Science Officer
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