
1022410 – 0001 Rev. 2
1–2 Introduction
error rate test set, and an E
b
N
o
monitor for use in Single Channel
Per Carrier (SCPC) and Multiple Channel Per Carrier (MCPC)
systems. Figure 1-2 shows a typical SCPC/MCPC application.
EXTERNAL MULTIPLEXER/DEMULTIPLEXER
VOICE
DATA
COMBINED VOICE
AND DATA
9100
UNIVERSAL
MODEM
IFL
70/140-MHz RFT
(C- OR KU-BAND)
ANTENNA
RECEIVE
TRANSMIT
LNA
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0
E
•
HUGHES
NETWORK SYSTEMS
PACKET
SWITCH
PBX
LAN
M&C FUNCTIONS
AVAILABLE THROUGH
KEYPAD/DISPLAY OR
BY USING OPTIONAL
M&C PERSONAL
COMPUTER (PC)
UPCONVERTER
HPA
DOWNCONVERTER
Figure 1-2
Typical SCPC/MCPC application
The UMOD meets the requirements demanded of modern satellite
modems as well as several features that offer flexibility for growth
from simple SCPC point-to-point applications to fully-networked
point-to-multipoint operation:
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Universal feature set—The feature set covers both current
and future applications with multiple bit rates, software
selectable in 1-bps increments from 9.6 kbps to 8.448
Mbps; BPSK and QPSK modulation methods; Viterbi,