Applications of SAW technology in a SONET-compatible high capacity digital microwave radio

Author

Cameron, T.P. ; Saw, J.C.B. ; Suthers, M.S.

Author_Institution

Bell Northern Res. Ltd., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

1992

Firstpage

237

Abstract

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology is used in the development of the world´s first SONET-compatible digital microwave radio system. The SONET Radio 440 utilizes a 512 quadrature AM (QAM) modulation scheme to transport an OC-12 (622 Mbit) data stream over two 40 MHz channels, achieving twice the efficiency of current long-haul digital microwave radio systems. The success of this radio is due largely to the application of SAW technology in the signal processing hardware. Pulse shaping filters have been developed to provide stringent out-of-band rejection while maintaining the channel fidelity necessary for the high modulation scheme. Antenna delay differences are equalized from a terminal, thus simplifying the setup of a system in the field

Keywords

SONET; amplitude modulation; digital radio systems; microwave links; surface acoustic wave devices; 622 Mbit/s; OC-12; SAW technology; SONET Radio 440; SONET-compatible high capacity digital microwave radio; antenna delay; channel fidelity; data stream; out-of-band rejection; pulse shaping filters; quadrature AM; signal processing hardware; Acoustic waves; Digital modulation; Hardware; Microwave filters; Microwave technology; Pulse shaping methods; Quadrature amplitude modulation; SONET; Signal processing; Surface acoustic waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium, 1992. Proceedings., IEEE 1992

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0562-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.1992.276029

Filename

276029