Radyne ComStream TIERNAN SE4000, Installation And Operation Manual

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Glossary SE4000 MPEG-2 Contribution Encoder
GL-4 01-0934-401-B
E
E
b
/N
0
E
b
= Energy per information bit; N
o
= Noise energy per Hertz. Signal energy
with respect to noise, expressed in energy per bit/noise in 1 Hz bandwidth.
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EIA Electronic Industries Association
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
ESC Engineering Service Circuits
ES-ES Earth Station to Earth Station Communication
ET Earth Terminal
E-3 European standard 34.368 Mbps digital interface.
F
F Fahrenheit
FAS Frame Acquisition Sync. A repeating series bits, which allow acquisition of a
frame.
Fault A disturbance that impairs or disrupts normal operations.
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FEC Forward Error Correction
FIFO First In, First Out. A type of data buffer.
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array. A chip that can be reprogrammed for various
uses.
FW Firmware
G
g Force of Gravity
GHz Gigahertz
GND Ground
G.703 ITU -T Recommendation G.703, “Physical/Electrical Characteristics of
Hierarchical Digital Interfaces.” An interface protocol used for terrestrial
transmissions that operates at multiples of 64 Kbps PCM.
H
HPA High power amplifier. A device which provides the high power necessary to
transmit radio signals from an earth terminal to a satellite.
HSSI High Speed Serial Interface
HW Hardware
Hz Hertz (Unit of Frequency)