Cisco Systems UBR7225VXR specifications Original Preamble Viewed with Accelerated Sweep Time

Chapter 4 Connecting the Cisco uBR7225VXR Router to the Cable Headend

Measuring the Upstream RF Signal

Figure 4-40 Preamble Amplitude Recovery After Center Frequency Adjustment

To get an even better look at the patterns and dramatic shifts in amplitude within the preamble itself, you can accelerate the sweep time for your zero-span signal processing.

Step 6 Tune the spectrum analyzer to the original center frequency (32.608 MHz in this example).

Step 7 Reset both the resolution and video bandwidth of the signal back to 3 MHz, but reduce the sweep time from 200 microseconds to 60 microseconds. The resulting display, similar to Figure 4-41, clearly shows the “tight” pattern of the preamble stretched across three-quarters of the spectrum analyzer display.

Figure 4-41 Original Preamble Viewed with Accelerated Sweep Time

Step 8 Change the center frequency back to 33.248 MHz and both the resolution and video bandwidth values to 1 MHz, retaining the new sweep time of 60 microseconds. The peak amplitude is clearly displayed with approximately 4.25 dB difference between the preamble and the rest of the upstream data transmission. (See Figure 4-42.)

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