P300 / P310 -IDR Additional Features

IDR Option

Satellite Framing in accordance with the IDR specification (to IESS 308), including:

Standard IDR framing with 2 x 32 kbps ADPCM audio ESC, a synchronous 8kbps ESC data channel, and four backward alarms

Enhanced features with the ‘Custom Features’ feature (see later)

iIndependent ESC & Aux Ports to replace the shared ESC/Aux port of the base modem. The ESC and Aux ports are active in all framed modes. They provide the following features::

ESC Port provides a front panel selectable RS232, RS422, or RS485 interface. In IDR

 

 

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Mode it provides either a synchronous interface to the 8kbps IDR ESC channel, or (if the

 

 

 

 

 

 

Async ESC feature is available, standard on P300-IBS and above) an async interface

 

 

 

supporting up to 4800 or 9600 Baud eg for distant end M&C via the IDR overhead. This

 

 

 

same ESC port, although part of the IDR option, in Closed net Plus ESC or IBS/SMS

 

 

 

modes provides a high rate asynchronous ESC interface (eg 2400 Baud at 64kbps in

 

 

 

standard IBS/SMS mode, any Baud rate for Closed Net Plus ESC). Again typically used

 

 

 

for distant end M&C via the overhead.

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Aux Port provides a front panel selectable RS232 and RS422 interface. In IDR Mode it

 

provides synchronous 32 or 64 kbps channel in place of one or both the 32kbps ADPCM

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ESC audio channels. In IBS/SMS & Minimum Overhead modes it provide a synchronous

 

 

port which can be configured to use from 1/32 to 21/32 of the IBS/SMS overhead (eg for

 

 

internal or external BER testing). When set to 1/32 and used asynchronously it provides

 

 

the INTELSAT compliant Low Rate ESC channel.

 

PRBS tester feature

 

The internal Pseudo Random Binary Sequence (PRBS) Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT) offers the

 

following features:

 

 

PRBS can pass through the main data channel, or the ESC or Aux channels of the overhead

 

 

in parallel with the main data channel in any mode where overhead is added.

 

 

BERT results can be logged in the traffic log at user set intervals, providing continuous traffic

 

 

quality monitoring and recording when operating through the overhead in parallel with the main

 

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data.

 

 

Compatible with patterns used by test equipment such as the Firebird etc.

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P300 Series Modem Installation and Operating Handbook

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