Patent 7590921 was granted and assigned to ADTRAN on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A data communication system has a plurality of communication transceivers respectively coupled to a plurality of communication lines and is configured to receive payload symbols and parity symbols. The system further has logic configured to transition from non-erasure decoding to erasure decoding based on a measured communication performance of one of the communication lines coupled to one of the plurality of transceivers.