In its early years, information theory — which grew out of a landmark 1948 paper by MIT alumnus and future professor Claude Shannon — was dominated by research on error-correcting codes: How do you encode information so as to guarantee its faithful transmission, even in the presence of the corrupting influences engineers call "noise"?

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CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ViaSat Inc.

CARLSBAD, Calif., March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) has readied its most demanding forward error correction (FEC) cores as standardized off-the-shelf products (ECC66100 series) for 100G optical transport.

CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) is now shipping its forward error correction (FEC) and digital signal processing (DSP) cores for 40G and 100G optical transport.