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Hello and welcome. I'm your host, Peter Ballant from Technicon, and today we will look at the

Epic project once again. Epic is a European effort with eight partners from seven different countries.

Partners include SMEs, industrial concerns, research institutions, and universities.

Like many other current technology projects, Epic is here to ensure that the things that work great now

will also work in the future. In the case of Epic, the focus is on forward error correction.

Today we speak with John Jimenez and Timo Lainik-Emden, both from Krionic in Germany.

Krionic designs and delivers complex signal processing functions for communication systems.

We'll start with John.

Can you break things down for us a bit?

Who needs forward error correction?

Well, actually, we all need forward error correction, even though we don't notice it.

What that means is whenever we're transmitting data over any sort of communication,

that data has to travel through a medium, and more than

than not, this is a noisy medium, and data gets distorted.

What for our correction does is it adds some redundancy to this information, so it could

be corrected at the other end without needing to retransmit information

or without needing to retransmit more often the information.

That's basically what it's all about.

So if you're using a smartphone, if you're using internet,

there's four air correction in the background

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