Constellation® January 2006
4-14 Technical Specifications
Signal Processing
Equipment Transmission Delay Time
One-way transmission delay per hop is measured through back-to-back radio
subsystems.
Modulation
Capacity DS1 to DS1 (µs) DS3 to DS3 (µs)
8 DS1 302
16 DS1 177
16T High Gain 1.5 ms
28 DS1 105
28T High Gain 780
DS3 85
4DS3 180
Capacity Modulation
Format
Occupied
Bandwidth
(MHz)
Symbol
Rate
(Msym/s)
Agg. Bit
Rate
(Mbit/s)
8 DS1 32 QAM 3.43 2.74 13.70
16 DS1 128 QAM 4.80 3.84 26.85
28 DS1/DS3 64 QAM 9.71 7.76 46.58
3 DS3 128 TCM 29.58 24.65 172.56
OC-3 128 TCM 29.58 24.65 172.56
4 DS3 256 TCM 30.0 24.68 197.42
16T High Gain 128 TCM 5.0 4.09 28.614
28 T High Gain 64 4D-TCM 10.0 8.38 50.28