Why does this matter operationally?
Performance
The measurable behaviour of a connectivity system under real operating conditions, including throughput, latency, jitter, and packet loss. Performance determines whether applications and control systems receive data at the speed and consistency their operations require.
557 terms
Downlink Interference
Downlink Interference is unwanted signal energy that degrades reception on a downlink path, reducing signal quality, throughput, and service availability.
Operations
Downlink Power Control
Downlink Power Control is the adjustment of transmit power on a downlink to maintain service quality or reduce interference. It is used to balance coverage and efficiency.
Operations
Drone Command Link
Drone Command Link is the control link used to send commands to a drone or unmanned aerial vehicle and receive operational feedback, enabling remote drone operation and situational awareness.
Hardware
DWDM
An optical transport technique that carries many independent signals simultaneously over a single fiber, each assigned its own tightly-spaced wavelength, multiplying a fiber route's effective capacity without requiring additional physical…
Concept/Framework
Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation
Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation is the adaptive assignment of bandwidth based on demand, policy, or channel conditions. It is used to share capacity more efficiently.
Operations
Dynamic Spectrum Access
A set of techniques and regulatory frameworks that allocate and reallocate radio spectrum access in real time based on actual usage and interference conditions, rather than through fixed, exclusive, long-term…
Concept/Framework
Earth Segment
Earth Segment is the ground-based part of a satellite communications system that includes infrastructure supporting control, telemetry, tracking, and service access from Earth.
Hardware
Earth-Fixed Beam
A satellite payload beam-steering technique in which onboard beam-steering continuously repoints a spot beam to compensate for the satellite's orbital motion, holding the beam's ground footprint — and therefore the…
Concept/Framework
Earth-Moving Beam
A satellite payload beam architecture in which a spot beam points in a fixed direction relative to the satellite itself, without continuous onboard steering to compensate for orbital motion, causing…
Concept/Framework
Edge AI
The broader category of running artificial intelligence workloads — most commonly inference, though also including lightweight on-device training or model adaptation in some implementations — on compute resources positioned at…
Concept/Framework