Chris - UI stands for Unit Interval - it's one data bit regardless of data rate. For example, at a data rate of 2048 kbit/s, one UI is equivalent to 488 ns, whereas at a data rate of 155.52 Mbit/s, one UI is equivalent to 6.4 ns. You should find this in many of the LAN textbooks - the link below takes you to a summary article which has a first cut coverage of jitter, wander, etc. _http://users.rcn.com/wpacino/jitwtutr/jitwtutr.htm_ (http://users.rcn.com/wpacino/jitwtutr/jitwtutr.htm) Regards - Bill Dr. F. Williams Sarles Consulting Engineer FWS ENGINEERING 54 Ledgelawn Avenue Lexington MA 02420-3449 Tel: 781-862-0607 Fax: 781-861-7518 Email: DrFWS@xxxxxxx FWSarles@xxxxxxxxxxxx **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu