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