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PERFORMANCE
CURVES
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PERFORMANCE CURVES
Performance Curves
Performance curves provide important parameters (hop distance, channel
spacing, and so forth) required for designing a communications system. The
curves in this chapter include the following:
1. Typical threshold-to-interference (T/I) curve (6 GHz and 7/8 GHz, 8 DS1)
2. Typical threshold-to-interference (T/I) curve (10/11 GHz, 8 DS1)
3. Typical threshold-to-interference (T/I) curve (6 GHz and 7/8 GHz,
16 DS1)
4. Typical threshold-to-interference (T/I) curve (10/11 GHz, 16 DS1)
5. Typical threshold-to-interference (T/I) curve (6 GHz and 7/8 GHz,
28 DS1/DS3)
6. Typical threshold-to-interference (T/I) curve (10/11 GHz, 28 DS1/DS3)
7. Typical threshold-to-interference (T/I) curve (6, 7/8, 10/11 GHz,
155 Mbit/s, 128 TCM)
8. Typical threshold-to-interference (T/I) curve (6, 7/8, 10/11 GHz, 4DS3)
9. Typical BER versus C/N curve (8 DS1)
10. Typical BER versus C/N curve (16 DS1)
11. Typical BER versus C/N curve (28 DS1/DS3)
12. Typical BER versus C/N curve (Constellation 155)
13. Typical BER vs. C/N and C/I (Constellation 155)
14. Typical BER versus RSL curve