Comtech EF Data cdm-570a - Table G-1. Spectral Efficiency Using Doubletalk Carrier-In-Carrier

CDM-570A/570AL Satellite Modem with Optional Packet Processor
Revision 5
DoubleTalk Carrier-in-Carrier Option G–7 MN-CDM570A
Because acquiring the delay and frequency offset of the interfering carrier is fundamentally a
correlation operation, anything deterministic in the interfering carrier (within the correlation
window of the algorithm) will potentially produce false correlation peaks and result in incorrect
delays and/or frequency. Normally, this is not a problem, since energy dispersal techniques are
utilized in the vast majority of commercial and military modems. However, it is something that
must be kept in mind when troubleshooting a system that utilizes the DoubleTalk Carrier-in-
Carrier technique for signal suppression.
One possible way to mitigate false peaks is to narrow the correlation window. For example, if the
delay is known to be around 240ms, set the minimum search delay to 230ms and the maximum
search delay to 250ms.
As all advances in modem technologies – including advanced modulation and FEC techniques –
approach their theoretical limits of power and bandwidth efficiencies, DoubleTalk Carrier-in-
Carrier allows satellite users to achieve spectral efficiencies (bps/Hz) that cannot be achieved
with modulation and FEC alone. Table G-1 illustrates how DoubleTalk Carrier-in-Carrier, when
used with 16-QAM, approaches the bandwidth efficiency of 256-QAM (8bps/Hz).
Table G-1. Spectral Efficiency using DoubleTalk Carrier-in-Carrier
Modulation
and Code Rate
Spectral Efficiency (bps/Hz)
TraditionalSCPC Carrier-in-Carrier
BPSK 1/2
0.50
1.00
QPSK 1/2
1.00
2.00
QPSK 3/4 1.50 3.00
QPSK 7/8 1.75 3.50
8-QAM 3/4 2.25 4.50
8-QAM 7/8 2.63 5.25
16-QAM 3/4
3.00
6.00
16-QAM 7/8 3.50 7.00
As shown here, DoubleTalk Carrier-in-Carrier allows equivalent spectral efficiency using a lower
order modulation and/or FEC Code Rate; CAPEX is therefore reduced by allowing the use of a
smaller BUC/HPA and/or antenna. And, as DoubleTalk Carrier-in-Carrier can be used to save
transponder bandwidth and/or transponder power, it can be successfully deployed in bandwidth-
limited as well as power-limited scenarios.