RACE Catalyst 2074
Alcatel, Eutelsat et al with 12 participants in total, including University of Salford, University of Surrey, Telecom Paris
EC RACE
R & D
was operational for 1 week 94
Ku-Band using Eutelsat II Satellite.
3.7m Antenna, 85W HPA, 0.5 transponder. Eb/No = 9 dB (BER >10-9)
SCPC FDM (No access plan was required due to the relatively short operational time, 9m earth terminals were used.)
12 Mbps (The 12 Mbps data rate was 1/2 rate encoded to 24.5 Mbps and broadcasted as QPSK to each receiver.)
B-ISDN
Proposed
Enet, cell, FDDI, etc (In 1992/93, there were few supported LAN interfaces to ATM equipment, commercial developments and standardisation by the ATM Forum would now allow standard interfaces to be used.)
A follow-on programme may be funded as part of the ACTS programme.