[VFKD][Kaufbox] DOCSIS 3.1 - OFDM [Korrigierbare Fehler]

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DOCSIS 3.1 uses LDPC (and BCH) to correct errors instead of Reed-Solomon. LDPC is much more powerful. The basic idea is that the operator can increase the modulation, to get a higher throughput, and just let LDPC correct all the errors. LDPC can do it, so the high number is "by design" (there can be hidden impairments in there, of course).

The OFDM channel is wider and uses larger codewords. That can also contribute to a higher count.

It just takes a single bit to create a corrected codeword. The counter doesn't say how hard or how easy it is for LDPC to fix the errors. If it gets too hard to demodulate a profile, you will see event code 16 (profile failure) in the log.