Electrical Engineering Glossary Definition for FEC

Definition

Forward Error Correction: A technique for detecting and correcting errors from imperfect transmission by adding a small number of extra bits. FEC allows optical transmission over longer distances by correcting errors that can happen as the signal-to-noise ratio decreases with distance.

Synonyms

• Forward Error Correction

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