Implication of a color multibeam communications satellite in the 30/20 GHz bands

In order to meet the need for increased communications capacity, NASA is conducting a program to develop technology and systems for a 30/20 GHz multibeam domestic U.S. satellite. One way to provide the required national interconnectivity is to permute and time share connections among the involved areas by means of a satellite-borne multiport microwave switch with a Time-Division Multiple Access (TDMA) system. In this connection, the question was analyzed whether a practical satellite message routing system can be developed using FDMA techniques. The total traffic (model A) was derived and used as an input specification for the satellite-routed FDMA study. Attention is given to beam isolations, color and regional systems, the level of service, and the color FDMA satellite. It is concluded that the FDMA system considered can handle substantially all the Customer Premises Service (CPS) and Trunking (TR) traffic in Model A. The (color) scheme completely satisfies the CPS and TR requirements of 23 cities.