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Reunion CTR 38 GHz Installation Guide
1CTR 38 GHz Release 1.2
Product Overview
The CTR 38 GHz outdoor transceiver is a customer premise transceiver
designed to operate in the Receiver (RX) 39.45 to 39.65 GHz and Transmitter
(TX) 38.75 to 38.95 GHz frequency bands. It is a Nortel Reunion product
which operates in conjunction with base station products. It is compatible
with Reunion’s Release 1.2 equipment.
The CTR 38 GHz transceiver is mounted on a pole or a building. It features a
small size and low noise characteristics. The combination of digital
modulation and low-loss mounting results in an efficient and low-cost
installation. It has a high-stability reference oscillator.
The CTR 38 GHz features the following attributes:
• light-weight and compact packaging designed for mounting outdoors
• solid-state upconverter and downconverter designs
• high frequency stability over a wide temperature range
• standard 18 VDC input for use around the world
The transceiver comprises the following components:
•diplexer
• power supply
•mixers
• local oscillator
•isolators
• bandpass filters
• low noise amplifier (LNA)
• power amplifier
• duplexer
• antenna