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DOCSIS codeword errors – NCTC member exclusive Webinar

Mia Colabrese2013-10-08T16:56:19-04:00October 8th, 2013|

Join us on Thursday, October 10 at 3pm central time for this MUST SEE Webinar on Codeword Errors Codeword Errors - What are they? Why do you care? DOCSIS codeword errors is terminology that you may or may not be familiar with. But no matter which camp you're in it is important to know that monitoring codeword errors will enable you to improve your subscriber's quality of experience. DOCSIS codeword errors are the deciding factor if you have an RF impairment or if you do not have an RF impairment.

DOCSIS Reed-Solomon Codewords

Mia Colabrese2013-03-10T20:01:38-04:00March 10th, 2013|

How many bytes can a Reed-Solomon codeword bite? In my previous article on DOCSIS Codeword Errors, reader "Sandy" asked how many Reed-Solomon codewords would be required to transport a 1518 byte length of data? This is a very good question and one that I had never considered until I first faced when designing DOCSIS data-layer models in MATLAB. In the example I used in my previous article I chose a word that was 16 bytes long. I did this because it made it easy to draw an 8x8