On 27/01/2018 09:25, Roger Hayter wrote:
RJH wrote:

On 26/01/2018 21:15, Roger Hayter wrote:
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Don't forget that high speed digital signals or
*not* binary at the physical layer, but more like RF digitial signals,
multi-level and phase dependent. !0GBe for instance.

JOOI, in what way are they not binary?

They are binary as far as the computer at each end is concerned, but
they are carried over the copper pairs (or fibre, but we are talking
about gold contacts!) as multi-level signals, effectively analogue
signals.

http://www.ieee802.org/802_tutorials/99-July/mastut.pdf


Ooooh, didn't know that! Not sure what I thought happened, mind.

Presumably it gets unpacked at either end with no change to the data -
is the 'cost' some very minor latency perhaps?

The paper is way over my head, but thanks anyways. References to FEC
seem to be relevant, but I'm not sure.

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Cheers, Rob