The measurement of the effectiveness of a communications channel. It is the ratio of the number of erroneous units of data to the total number of units of data transmitted.
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- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
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- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
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- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
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- Software downloads 2008-07-03
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- Blog posts 2008-07-02
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