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100GE PCS coding

Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Submitted by ryan.grace on June 20, 2023 - 11:46am
Question: 
What line coding is used on 100G Ethernet signals?
Answer: 
100GE uses 64b/66b line coding. However when there is an RS-FEC layer then we transcode to 256b/257b

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