Question

What does a BER of 10-5 mean? a. there will be no errors during transmission since the BER is so low b. does not mean anything unless associated with a transmission data rate (bit rate) c. there is a probability of one error for every 100,000 bits transmitted d. None of the above

Answer 1

c. there is a probability of one error for every 100,000 bits transmitted

Step-by-step explanation:

BER is an abbreviation for bit error rate.

BER is the percentage of bits with errors divided by the total number of bits that have been transmitted, received or processed over a given time period. The rate is typically expressed as 10 to the negative power. BER is the digital equivalent to signal-to-noise ratio in an analog system.

In this case
`10^(-5)` is the same as writing
`1 * 10^(-5)` which means there is a probability of 1 error for every 100,000 bits transmitted.