Before revision: For many modern packet-switched communication systems, even a single uncorrected bit error is enough to cause the loss of a data packet by causing its CRC to fail; whether that packet loss was caused by a single bit error or a burst of a hundred-bit-long error burst is irrelevant.
After revision: checkFor many modern packet-switched communication systems, even a single uncorrected bit error is enough to cause the loss of a data packet by causing its CRC to fail; whether that packet loss was caused by a single bit error or a burst of a hundred-bit-long error burst is irrelevant.