User Manual

Table Of Contents
Glossary B-4STRATA TX Operators Guide/Tech Ref Manual
EVM Error Vector Magnitude
FCC Federal Communications Commission
The United State's communications regulatory
agency.
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
FEC Forward Error Corrections
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FIFO First In, First Out buffer
FIR Finite Impulse Response
FMT FM Video Modulator or FM Transmitter
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FSK Frequency-Shift Keying
FW Firmware
GHz
Gigahertz (10
9
cycles per second)
GI Guard Interval
GND Ground
GUI Graphic User Interface
HDB3 High Density Bipolar 3 line code format for traffic
data.
HPF High Pass Filter
HPU High Power Unit
H/W or HW Hardware
ICI Inter-Carrier Interference
ICR Inter-City Relay
ID Identification
IDU Indoor Unit
IF Intermediate Frequency
Table B-1: Useful Terms (Continued)
IMD Inter-Modulation Distortion
I/O Input/Output
IRD Integrated Receiver Decoder
IRE 1. Institute of Radio Engineers, an international
professional radio engineering association that
establishes various standards.
2. A unit of measurement, established by the IRE, in
which 1 IRE Unit =.00714 volts peak-to-peak (Vp-p)
and 140 IRE units equals 1 Vp-p.
ISI Inter-Symbol Interference
ISO International Standards Organization
kbps Kilobits per second
kHz Kilo (1,000) cycles per second
LAN Local Area Network
LBO Line Build Out
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
Lcl Local
LED Light Emitting Diode
LIU Line Interface Unit
LNA Low Noise Amplifier
LNB Low Noise Block Down Converter
LNC Low Noise Converter
LO Local Oscillator
LOS Loss of Signal
LPF Low Pass Filter
LQ Link Quality
Mbps Megabits per second
MHz Million (1,000,000) cycles per second
Table B-1: Useful Terms (Continued)