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- bandwidth.
Information-carrying capacity of a communication channel. Analog bandwidth is the range of signal frequencies that can be transmitted by a communication channel or network.
- bend radius.
The allowable limit a fiber cable can be bent, measured in subunits of meters.
- BER (bit error rate).
(1) Percentage of bits in a transmittal received in error. (2) The number of coding violations detected in a unit of time, usually 1 second. (3) Specifies expected frequency of errors.
- bidirectional.
A transmission and reception system that operates in both directions.
- BIP (bit-interleaved parity).
A parity check that groups all the bits in a block into units (such as byte), and then performs a parity check for each bit position in the group.
- BIP-8 (bit-interleaved ...
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