Method and apparatus for transmitting a gigabit-ethernet signal by a high capacity point-to-point radio system

An apparatus for transmitting a Gigabit-Ethernet signal through a fixed high capacity point-to-point radio system, the apparatus comprising:

• a user interface for receiving a Gigabit-Ethernet signal to be transmitted;
• means for selecting a transmission carrier frequency and an associated bandwidth, wherein said carrier frequency is in a range of 6 to 38 GHz and said associated bandwidth is less than 1.25 GHz;
• a compression rate selector for compressing the Gigabit-Ethernet signal to be transmitted by a compression rate of 1:4, thus obtaining a compressed Gigabit-Ethernet signal, wherein the step of compressing comprises selecting a compression rate according to resources which are available in the radio link;
• a mapper for mapping the compressed Gigabit-Ethernet signal in two virtual containers;
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• a transceiver means for transmitting the two virtual containers through said fixed high capacity point-to-point radio system.

An apparatus for transmitting a Gigabit-Ethernet signal through a fixed high capacity point-to-point radio system, the apparatus comprising:

• a user interface for receiving a Gigabit-Ethernet signal to be transmitted;
• means for selecting a transmission carrier frequency and an associated bandwidth, wherein said carrier frequency is in a range of 6 to 38 GHz and said associated bandwidth is less than 1.25 GHz;
• a compression rate selector for compressing the Gigabit-Ethernet signal to be transmitted by a compression rate of 1:2, thus obtaining a compressed Gigabit-Ethernet signal, wherein the step of compressing comprises selecting a compression rate according to resources which are available in the radio link;
• a mapper for mapping the compressed Gigabit-Ethernet signal in four virtual containers;
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• a transceiver means for transmitting the four virtual containers through said fixed high capacity point-to-point radio system,
• wherein two independent data sequences, discriminated by orthogonal polarization, are transmitted on the same carrier frequency.

An apparatus for transmitting a Gigabit-Ethernet signal through a fixed high capacity point-to-point radio system, the apparatus comprising:

• a user interface for receiving a Gigabit-Ethernet signal to be transmitted;
• means for selecting a transmission carrier frequency and an associated bandwidth, wherein said carrier frequency is in a range of 6 to 38 GHz and said associated bandwidth is less than 1.25 GHz;
• a compression rate selector for compressing the Gigabit-Ethernet signal to be transmitted by a compression rate of 1:1, thus obtaining a compressed Gigabit-Ethernet signal, wherein the step of compressing comprises selecting a compression rate according to resources which are available in the radio link;
• a mapper for mapping the compressed Gigabit-Ethernet signal in eight virtual containers;
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• a transceiver means for transmitting the eight virtual containers through said fixed high capacity point-to-point radio system,
• wherein a further carrier frequency is selected in the range of 6 to 38 GHz, and
• means for transmitting two independent data sequences on the same carrier frequency, discriminated by orthogonal polarization.