Subj : Re: error corrcting software + location on pc To : comp.programming From : David Tiktin Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 02:41 pm On 06 Sep 2005, mwojcik@newsguy.com (Michael Wojcik) wrote: > In article , Peter Ammon > writes: >> >> I can't think offhand of any network protocols that use error >> correcting codes. > > That made me wonder if there were any prominent examples of ECC > network protocols. > > Detect-and-retransmit does seem to have been the widespread choice > for network data transmission, except in some cases for broadcast > data (where retransmission for backward error correction may be > impractical). Does anyone know if proprietary protocols like > Telebit's PEP used ECC rather than detect-and-retransmit? I'd > guess not, considering the overhead for FEC. ATM (that's Asynchronous Tranfer Mode) networks use forward error correction for at least some types of traffic classes. Dave -- D.a.v.i.d T.i.k.t.i.n t.i.k.t.i.n [at] a.d.v.a.n.c.e.d.r.e.l.a.y [dot] c.o.m .