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RE: Agree, and if I might be so bold as to add...

Actually, one aspect of the incoming signal is not reclocked at all. That's the 8 kHz isochronous packet rate of the audio packets. This is generated by a clock in the root USB hub and all of the intermediate hubs are slaved to this clock. So if there is jitter on this clock it will be present on all packets, regardless of the regeneration. Actually, each hub in series will increase the jitter of the packet start due to various technical issues involving squelch circuits, start of packet detection, and details of how synchronization is done between asychronous clocks. (We discovered all of these issues in the repeaters for the 10 Mb/s Ethernet, which only worked because there had been a low limit on the number of repeaters that could be connected in tandem. Ring networks had many more nodes strung together and had much more complicated jitter problems.)

Tony Lauck

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