System, apparatus and method for concurrent reception of multiple channels spaced physically in radio frequency spectrum

A method comprising:

• configuring, via a controller, a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of a receiver to operate at a fixed center frequency to capture a first channel of interest on which a beam communication occurs;
• controlling, via the controller, a second ADC of the receiver to be in a low power state;
• detecting, using at least in part the first ADC, a beam signal of the beam communication;
• and
• in response to detecting the beam signal, controlling the second ADC to be in an active state.

A system comprising:

• a common receiver signal processing path to receive and process a radio frequency (RF) spectrum into a first intermediate frequency (IF) signal having a first channel of interest to communicate a beam signal and a second IF signal having a second channel of interest comprising main band signals;
• a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to the common receiver signal processing path to digitize the first IF signal into a first digitized signal, the first ADC configured to operate at a low-pass;
• a second ADC coupled to the common receiver signal processing path to digitize the second IF signal into a second digitized signal, the second ADC configured to operate at a controllable band-pass to perform frequency hopping for a plurality of channels of interest;
• and
• a controller coupled to the first ADC and the second ADC, the controller to cause the second ADC to be in a low power mode until the beam signal is detected, and to thereafter control the second ADC to be in an active mode.