I work on a laser communication link. We want to make it more efficient, so this link has one computer connected to each side of the laser. I use LabView TPC connection to transfer a file from on side of the link to another side. However, when I convert the file to binary array it takes hours for small files like 5Mb. I want to know If there is a better way to check the Bit Error Rate of the laser link using TCP/IP and if there is a better way to convert to binary.
I'm using fsona laser 1250-S which connected to a cisco 2500 by fiber optics then connected to a computer by TCP/IP, in each side. I'm correctly transferring a file from one side to another and convert it to binary. However it does not give me the results that I'm looking for since there are error correction in the way.
That BER is associated with the physical layer. Only after packets are transfered, CRC'd, and re-assembled do they ever bubble up to the IP and then the TCP layer.
