Q-Flex Satellite Modem Installation and Operating Handbook
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7.10 Paired Carrier™
Paired Carrier™
can be used to reduce satellite bandwidth requirements by up to 50%
by overlapping transmit and receive carriers in the same space segment. It uses ViaSat’s
patented PCMA technology.
Paired Carrier™
is now mature fourth-generation giving
performance second to none. Adaptive self-interference cancellation is used to subtract
the unit’s transmitted signal from the composiste received signal, leaving just the desired
signal. This is depicted in
Figure 7-15
.
Figure 7-15 Frequency Re-use by Overlaying Carriers
The
Paired Carrier™
processing in the modem to cancel the unwanted signal in the
composite received signal to be left with only the desired signal is shown in the diagram
overleaf. The signal cancellation algorithm estimates and compensates for gain,
frequency, phase and delay in matching the unwanted component of the composite Rx
signal with a delay buffered version of its own transmission.
Typical satellite transmission
with
separate
frequency
slots for the uplink and
downlink.
Using
Paired Carrier™
with
uplink and downlink carriers
overlaid, 50% can be saved on
the cost of space segment.