BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 illustrates a communications system that may be implemented using the system of the present invention;
FIG. 2 illustrates an example of an implementation of one or more terminals of a communication system in accordance with the invention wherein each terminal has a microwave radio link with wireless Ethernet communications and Ethernet drop/insert capability;
FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a digital data and baseband portion of the terminal shown in FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 illustrates an example of an intermediate frequency and radio frequency portion of the terminal of FIG. 2;
FIG. 5A illustrates an example of a frame structure 512 for the communication system in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 5B illustrates an example of the payload 514 of the frame structure of FIG. 5A;
FIG. 5C illustrates an example of an implementation of a set of logic circuits that implement the frame structure shown in FIGS. 5A and 5B;
FIG. 6 illustrates an example of the received signal processing of each terminal in FIG. 2;
FIG. 7 illustrates an example of the circuitry that may be used to implement the bit rate monitor of the terminal shown in FIG. 3; and
FIG. 8 illustrates an example of a terminal-level state diagram for performing the entire switching operation.
Patent Application
20070153726
