Table of Contents

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Foreword
1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations
  3.1 Definitions
  3.2 Symbols
  3.3 Abbreviations
4 General characteristics
  4.1 Frequency bands and channel arrangements
       4.1.1 Channel arrangements
             4.1.1.1 Frequency arrangement for 32 GHz
             4.1.1.2 Frequency arrangement for 38 GHz
  4.2 Channel spacing for systems operating on the same route
  4.3 Compatibility requirements between systems
  4.4 Performance and availability requirements
  4.5 Environmental conditions
       4.5.1 Equipment within weather protected locations
             (indoor locations)
       4.5.2 Equipment for non-weather protected locations
             (outdoor locations)
  4.6 Power supply
  4.7 Electromagnetic compatibility
  4.8 System block diagram
  4.9 Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) interface
  4.10 Branching/feeder/antenna characteristics
       4.10.1 Antenna radiation patterns
       4.10.2 Antenna cross-Polar Discrimination (XPD)
       4.10.3 Antenna Inter-Port Isolation (IPI)
       4.10.4 Waveguide flanges (or other connectors)
       4.10.5 Return loss
5 System Parameters
  5.1 Transmission capacity
  5.2 Baseband parameters
      5.2.1 Plesiochronous interfaces
      5.2.2 SDH baseband interface
  5.3 Transmitter characteristics
      5.3.1 Transmitter power range
      5.3.2 Transmit power and frequency control
            5.3.2.1 Automatic Transmit Power Control (ATPC)
            5.3.2.2 Remote Transmit Power Control (RTPC)
            5.3.2.3 Remote Frequency Control (RFC)
      5.3.3 Transmitter output power tolerance
      5.3.4 Transmit Local Oscillator (LO) frequency arrangements
      5.3.5 RF spectrum mask
      5.3.6 Discrete CW lines exceeding the spectrum mask limit
            5.3.6.1 Spectral lines at the symbol rate
            5.3.6.2 Other spectral lines
      5.3.7 Spurious emissions
            5.3.7.1 Spurious emissions-external
            5.3.7.2 Spurious emissions-internal
      5.3.8 Radio frequency tolerance
  5.4 Receiver characteristics
      5.4.1 Input level range
      5.4.2 Receiver Local Oscillator (LO) frequency arrangements
      5.4.3 Spurious emissions
            5.4.3.1 Spurious emissions-external
            5.4.3.2 Spurious emissions-internal
  5.5 System performance without diversity
      5.5.1 BER as a function of Receiver input Signal Level (RSL)
      5.5.2 Equipment Residual BER
      5.5.3 Interference sensitivity
            5.5.3.1 Co-channel interference sensitivity
            5.5.3.2 Adjacent channel interference
            5.5.3.3 Continuous Wave (CW) spurious interference
            5.5.3.4 Front-end non-linearity requirements (two-tone
                    CW spurious interference)
      5.5.4 Distortion sensitivity
  5.6 System characteristics with diversity
Annex A (informative): Additional information
      A.1 Radio frequency channel arrangement
          A.1.1 Radio frequency channel arrangement for
                32 GHz band
          A.1.2 Radio frequency channel arrangement for
                38 GHz band
      A.2 Feeder/antenna return loss
      A.3 Automatic Transmit Power Control (ATPC)
      A.4 Residual Bit Error Rate (RBER)
      A.5 Co-channel and adjacent channel interference
Annex B (normative): System type codes for regulatory
        procedures
Annex C (normative): Output Power Tolerance and RBER
Annex D (informative): Bibliography
History

Abstract

Describes the minimum performance parameters for terrestrial digital fixed service radio communications equipment operating in the 32 GHz and 38 GHz frequency.

General Product Information

Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Pages
ISBN
Committee	TM 4
Supersedes	PREN 300 197 : 1.2.1