When designing a transmission link, are there any standardized/typical objectives for maximum bit error rate? Apart from some papers speaking about values like \$10^{-10}\$ or \$10^{-12}\$ for optical fiber I not only failed to find something comprehensive, but I found hardly anything at all. Just some measurements/simulations.
I'm mostly interested in values for wireless links, but anything about wired connections is appreciated as well.
Best Answer
When designing a data transmission link, you design it to meet the "requirements". If the link raw-data error rate is likely high then you either retransmit several times and meet the "requirements" by shear numbers or you design in "packet retransmit protocols" in order to meet the "requirements".
Raw bit error rates can be quite high but, by using the appropriate protocol this can be significantly reduced.
As to whether there is a "standard" that all data links adhere to regarding data-payload errors I would say not - if you are designing something then you are designing to a set of requirements (or a spec) and this takes priority.