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Why You Need to Test Both MER and BER

To view the seminar you will need a 56K connection or better, a sound board, speakers and a Real Media Player Version G2, 7.0 or better. If you don't have a copy of either of these Real Media Players you can download a free copy by clicking below. If you don't know if the computer you are using has the player, try the link anyway and if you don't have the right player a dialog box will tell you.

This seminar lasts about 9 minutes and covers differences between modulation error ratio and bit error rate, the limitations of each and why you need to measure both to adequately test QAM signals. If you want to move back or forth in the seminar you can use the slider control at the top of the window to move anywhere in the seminar.

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If you find you are having trouble viewing the seminar, or the audio breaks up periodically then you are experiencing heavy Internet traffic. You can try again later or you can download the entire Real Media file and play it locally from your hard drive. The download file is zipped so you will need a program such as Winzip to decompress it.

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To play the file locally open the file using your unzipping program and extract all the files to a new folder. Run your Real Player by using the Start menu and click file and open. Select the folder where you extracted the file and run merbersem.smil.

Some corporate networks use a firewall to protect their network from hackers. If you are using a corporate internet connection and having trouble playing the seminar you can either download the entire file or click here for more information on viewing Streaming Real Media through a firewall.

If you would like to download all of the slides so you can print out your own copy, click below. The Slide presentation is in Powerpoint and is zipped.

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