[Ronja] What is holding back 100 mbps

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Thomas Egenhofer <antitron at web.de> wrote:
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>  first is you would have to change the encoding of the MLT3 signal to 2-level signal which is suited for optical transmission. in easiest case manchester code.

This makes no sense to me. Going to a higher encoding level should
trade bandpass for SNR (and linearity) requirements.

It might not be a huge win given the channel characteristics, but
saying that it would need several orders of magnitude more bandwidth
(which is what saying .5ns rise time is saying)

With a proper EQ (which would be easy with an all digital
modulator/demodulator) higher level encoding should work well across
the optical channel.