What term describes the interference caused by a poor-quality cable identified during a redundancy check?

The term that describes the interference caused by a poor-quality cable identified during a redundancy check is a CRC error. CRC stands for Cyclic Redundancy Check, which is a method used to detect errors in digital data during transmission. When data is transmitted over a network, a checksum value is calculated and sent along with the data. The receiving device uses the same algorithm to calculate the checksum on the received data and compares it with the transmitted checksum.

If there are discrepancies due to issues like a poor-quality cable, interference, or signal degradation, the calculated checksums will not match, leading to a CRC error. This indicates that the data has been corrupted in transmission and likely needs to be resent.

In this case, packet loss refers to the failure of data packets to reach their destination, which might result from CRC errors, but is a broader term that does not pinpoint the cause. Latency relates to the time delay experienced in a network during transmission and does not directly describe the resulting errors from faulty cables. Throughput measures the maximum rate at which data can be successfully transferred across the network and is not a direct measure of error in transmission. Therefore, CRC error is the accurate term for the interference caused by a poor-quality cable in this context.