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8B/10B encoding
An algorithm for encoding data for transmission in which each eight-bit data byte is converted to a 10-bit transmission character.
8B/10B encoding is used in transmitting data on Fibre Channel, ESCON, Gigabit Ethernet, and Serial Attached SCSI. It supports continuous transmission with a balanced number of ones and zeros in the code stream and detects single bit transmission errors.
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Data Communication