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- Date: 23 Jan 93 17:28:40 GMT
- From: wardc@eng.auburn.edu (Christopher Ward)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Iridium Information Wanted
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 38, Message 9 of 11
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- I have been gathering some technical data about Motorola's Iridium
- system, and I am having some problems correlating some of the
- available data:
-
- From the {IEEE Spectrum} issues of February 1992 (pages 20-33):
-
- Iridium uses the L-band (1610-1626.5 MHz) for bidirectional
- communication between the LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites and the
- portable phone units.
-
- Communication between satellites (crosslinks) and between a satellite
- and the Earth-based gateway stations (uplink/downlink) occurs in the
- Ka band:
-
- Crosslink: 22.5-23.5 GHz
- Uplink: 18.8-20.2 GHz
- Downlink: 27.5-30.0 GHz
-
- These gateways support 1300 user channels in the baseline design at
- 4800 kbps. Basically the aggregate data rate requirements of the
- up/down links are in the order of 1300 x 4800 = 6.24 Mbps.
-
- So what I see (maybe I am missing something) is an approximate
- bandwidth of 1 GHz in the up/down links allocated to support data
- rates that "seem" to be well below the actual capabilities of those
- connections.
-
- Does anybody see an obvious explanation to this?
- (6.24 Mbps <======> 1 Ghz bandwidth) ?
-
- Is the Ka band being currently utilized for other satellite communications?
- (i.e. Geosynchronous satellites) ?
-
-
- Thanks,
-
- SdlC
-
-