Enabling 4-Lane Based 400 G Client-Side Transmission Links with MultiCAP Modulation

Table 2

Equalizer’s performance in terms of BER as compared to the nonequalized system measured for three different signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) settings; compared systems: nonequalized system with a standard multimodulus algorithm (MMA) equalization and with decision directed (DD) -means equalizer.

SNR; (dB)	BER; nonequalized system	BER; MMA equalizer	BER; DD -means equalizer
20.6
19.5
18.2