
E-Band and V-Band - Survey on status of worldwide regulation
21
Band
(GHz)
Frequency
range
(GHz)
Channel
separation (MHz)
Recommendations for radio frequency
channel arrangements
ECC
ITU-R
70
71,0 to 76,0
250 to 2 250 (9
250)
05-07 [3]
F.2006 [11]
80
81,0 to 86,0
70
paired with
80
71,0 to 76,0
paired with
81,0 to 86,0
250 to 4 500 (18
250)
70 (upper part)
paired with
80 (upper part)
74,0 to 76,0
paired with
84,0 to 86,0
250 to 1 750 (7
250)
70 and 80
71,0 to 76,0
and
81,0 to 86,0
Free
70 and 80
71,0 to 76,0
and
81,0 to 86,0
Block:
1x 5GHz
5x1GHz
4x 1,25GHz
Table 3: E-Band- ECC and ITU comparison
The option to subdivide a 250MHz channel into 4x62,5MHz or 2x125MHz, not reported here, is foreseen
in ECC/REC(05)07 only.
ETSI standards for equipment
ETSI’s harmonized standards for equipment (those used for presumption of conformity and market
access under 99/05/EC Directive) have followed a step-wise approach over time:
Harmonized EN 302 217-3 [10]:
In 2009, EN 302 217-3 (v1.3.1) introduced minimal requirements
typically suitable for uncoordinated or self-coordinated (i.e. light licence) applications. As for FCC rules,
minimum antenna gain is required to ease interference control.
Harmonized EN 302 217-2-2 [9]: In 2011 ETSI, considering that some CEPT administrations were
considering to adopt conventional coordination approach also in E-Band, started an overall revision also
of the more popular Harmonized EN 302 217-2-2, which introduced also for the E-Band all the additional
TX and RX harmonized parameters necessary for the case of fully coordinated deployment.
In conclusion, today ETSI’s harmonized standards consider two kinds of equipment reflecting two
different licensing systems:
Category 1 equipment applicable when no or simplified coordination is used. Both FDD and TDD
systems are covered in this annex.
Category 2 equipment applicable only to FDD systems, when conventional link-by-link
coordination based on the channel arrangements defined in ECC/Recommendation (05)07 or
Recommendation ITU-R F.2006 is used.
It is worth noting that this subdivision is going to disappear, due to the forthcoming introduction of the
new Radio Equipment Directive (RED) 2014/53/EU [37].