Each fragment contained about 100 letters encoding the data.

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It is likely that a data encoding technology called erasure codes to enable significant data reduction while still providing data protection.

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Sending large amounts of information down an optical fibre is done by encoding many separate streams of data as pulses of light of different colours, so that they can travel along the fibre without interfering with each other.

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The ioFX is also designed to accelerate video playback and rendering, video and image editing and compositing, encoding and transcoding as well as other data-intensive activities required in contemporary digital production.

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But message-encoding systems are already set up to cope with lost data.

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