Broadband Wireless Link Budgets

The ITU-R P.530-10, ITU-R P.837-3 and ITU-R P.838-1 recommendations have been used to establish the rain
fade for 99.99% availability in worst case north west European climatic conditions.

DOWNSTREAM 10.5 GHz 3.5 GHz

Frequency 10.2 GHz 4.0 GHz

Polarisation Horizontal Horizontal
Availability 99.99% 99.99%
Rainfall rate 35 mm/hour 35 mm/hr
Modulation 64QAM 64QAM
Bandwidth 6.0 MHz 6.0 MHz

Transmitter 1 dB Compression 35.0 39.0 dBm

Back-off 9.0 9.0 dB
Transmitter Output Power 26.0 30.0 dBm
Transmitter Antenna Gain 19.0 16.0 dBi
Transmitter Carrier ERP 45.0 46.0 dBm

Path Length 10.0 25.0 km

Theoretical Path Loss 132.6 132.4 dB
Rain Fade and Gaseous Loss 6.8 1.5 dB
Other Losses 1.0 1.0 dB
Total Loss 140.4 134.9 dB

Power at Receive Antenna -95.4 -88.9 dBm

Receiver Antenna Gain 20.0 11.0 dBi
Received Carrier Power -75.4 -77.9 dBm

KTB -106.1 -106.1 dBm

Receiver Noise Figure 3.5 3.5 dB
Receiver Noise Power -102.6 -102.6 dBm

Received Carrier/Noise 27.2 24.7 dB

UPSTREAM

Frequency 10.5 GHz 4.0 GHz

Polarisation Vertical Vertical
Availability 99.99% 99.99%
Rainfall rate 35 mm/hour 35 mm/hr
Modulation QPSK QPSK
Bandwidth 1.6 MHz 1.6 MHz

Transmitter 1 dB Compression 17.0 23.0 dBm

Back-off 3.0 3.0 dB
Transmitter Output Power 14.0 20.0 dBm
Transmitter Antenna Gain 22.0 11.0 dBi
Transmitter Carrier ERP 36.0 31.0 dBm

Path Length 10.0 25.0 km

Theoretical Path Loss 132.9 132.4 dB
Rain Fade and Gaseous Loss 5.8 1.2 dB
Other Losses 1.0 1.0 dB
Total Loss 139.7 134.6 dB

Power at Receive Antenna -103.7 -103.6 dBm

Receiver Antenna Gain 19.0 16.0 dBi
Received Carrier Power -84.7 -87.6 dBm

KTB -111.8 -111.8 dBm

Receiver Noise Figure 4.0 4.0 dB
Receiver Noise Power -107.8 -107.8 dBm

Received Carrier/Noise 23.1 20.2 dB

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