Mind you, Petri originally asked about evidence for two machines
back-to-back, and 100ms is rather long for that (unless you're at
Steven Low's lab ;-)
Another interesting figure which comes to mind is whether "bursty loss" is the usual way a multigigabit optical link loses IP packets or if the flipping of single bit hits only one packet. This influences the actual real life problem a lot and in my understanding of 8B/10B coding, itīs designed not to lose sync over a single bit error so with a probability of bit error every few minutes, hitting two in close succession (in the window) is unlikely.
Some time ago we did experiments implementing FEC at IP layer to make the multimedia which run over the network zero loss. While doing the experiment we recognized that the clustered loss we saw was caused by software issues in routers, not at any transmission devices. Using somewhat deeper interleaving of packets solved the issue with this application.
Pete
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