AS 4080—1995

Australian Standard
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User terminals for accessing the

mobilesat satellite
communications system
 This Australian Standard was prepared by Committee RC/2, Radiocommunications
Equipment—Satellite and Telecommunications Networks. It was approved on behalf
of the Council of Standards Australia on 31 October 1994 and published on
5 January 1995.

The following interests are represented on Committee RC/2:

Austel
Australian Confederation of Consumers Association
Australian Electronic and Electrical Manufacturers Association
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
Civil Aviation Authority
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Communication Workers Union

Consumer Electronics Supplier Association
Department of Communications and the Arts
Department of Defence, Australia
Federation of Australian Commercial TV Stations
Ministry of Commerce, New Zealand
National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Optus Communications
Spectrum Management Agency, Australia
State Police/Emergency Services, Australia
Telecom, Australia
Additional interests participating in preparation of Standard:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
CSIRO, Division of Radiophysics, Australia
Department of Communications and Electronic Engineering, RMIT
Digital Communications Group, University of South Australia
Equipment manufacturers and suppliers
Independent consultants
Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

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 AS 4080—1995

Australian Standard
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User terminals for accessing

the mobilesat satellite
communications system

First published as AS 4080— 1992.

Second edition 1995.

PUBLISHED BY STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

(STANDARDS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA)
1 THE CRESCENT, HOMEBUSH, NSW 2140
ISBN 0 7262 9427 6
 AS 4080— 1995 2

PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia / Standards New Zealand
Committee RC/2 on Radiocommunications Equipment— Satellite and Telecommunications
Networks, to supersede AS 4080— 1992.
This Standard is the result of a consensus among Australian and New Zealand representatives
on the Joint Committee to produce it as an Australian Standard. It is based on material
supplied by OPTUS, owners and operators of the mobilesat system and includes proprietary
protocols whose intellectual property is owned by OPTUS, who have advised that all
manufacturers will be able to obtain licences for the intellectual property on an unlimited,
non-exclusive and equitable basis. The trademark mobilesat is a registered OPTUS
trademark.
It is intended to assist designers and manufacturers of appropriate terminal equipment as well
as users of mobilesat.
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The Standard was reviewed to incorporate changes intended to clarify and expand the detail
of requirements. The changes are contained throughout the document and include the addition
of specifications for an additional class of mobilesat terminal, with its associated parameters,
specification for transmitted data rate accuracy and transmitting, receiving and environmental
testing instructions.
The topics containing changes include antenna tracking requirements, OBTDM carrier
acquisition requirements, power output monitoring, definitions for class and DAMA as well
as Figures 6 and 8. Appendix A, including the figures, has also changed. Clarification has
been made to RF radiation requirements, person-to-machine interface requirements and
Table 4.
This Standard applies to mobile satellite earth terminals for accessing mobilesat which
provides a range of circuit-switched voice, data, facsimile and messaging services, using the
B Series OPTUS satellites. The satellite transponders will enable a large number of mobilesat
terminals transmitting and receiving at L-band to communicate via satellite with fixed earth
stations transmitting and receiving at Ku-band.
AUSTEL Technical Standard TS 022 defines the mobilesat terminal compatibility
requirements for access to the mobilesat system and through it where appropriate, to a carrier
network.

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CONTENTS
Page
FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1 SCOPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 APPLICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3 REFERENCED AND RELATED DOCUMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4 DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5 TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6 TESTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

APPENDIX A SPECIFICATION FOR THE INTERFACE BETWEEN THE

MOBILE TERMINAL INDOOR UNIT AND THE AUXILIARY
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INTERFACE UNIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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FOREWORD

The mobilesat system has been designed and developed in Australia. It is a consumer
satellite communications system facilitating voice communication and exchange of
data, facsimile and messages using mobile terminals anywhere in Australia and
neighbouring waters, via satellite. It is managed and controlled from a network
management station which is located in Sydney with a fully redundant backup
capability located in Perth.
The mobilesat system caters for both transportable/fixed and mobile
applications. The mobilesat system connects into a public telecommunications
network via ‘gateway’ stations which are under the control of the network
management station, and connects into the network using the high functionality of
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an ISDN primary rate access interface.

A major objective of this system is to offer mobile telephone communications to
potential users outside the reach of existing wire or cellular telephone systems.
The mobilesat terminals are similar in concept to car cellular telephones, comprising
a handset, electronics package and antenna. Antenna performance is crucial to
satisfactory performance of the system and compact, practical designs are obviously
highly desirable.
Enhanced applications such as data exchange and facsimile are available, depending
on the facilities designed into user interfaces. The capabilities offered are shown in
Figure 1.
The system supports approximately 1000 channels and approximately 50 000 users.
 5 AS 4080 — 1995

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

Australian Standard
User terminals for accessing the mobilesat satellite
communications system

1 SCOPE This Standard details definitions, minimum physical layer performance

requirements, environment and testing requirements of mobile terminals (MTs) for access to
the mobilesat satellite communications system.
The specifications cover signalling and telephony requirements to ensure access to mobilesat
and to ensure that MTs will achieve intended service quality, will interwork with the network
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management station (NMS), base stations (BSs), gateway stations (GSs) and that they will
not, in any circumstances (including failure to operate), endanger system integrity. This
Standard does not cover the mechanical specifications for terminal equipment, the numbering
scheme, or user interfaces for enhanced facilities.

2 APPLICATION This Standard is intended for use by equipment designers,

manufacturers, suppliers and maintainers, to ensure correct operation of MTs and their
compatibility with mobilesat.
It should be read in conjunction with AUSTEL Technical Standard TS 022.

3 REFERENCED AND RELATED DOCUMENTS

3.1 Referenced documents The following documents are referred to in this Standard:
AS
2772 Radiofrequency radiation
APPROVAL AND TEST SPECIFICATION
AS
3260 Safety of information technology equipment including electrical business
equipment

ITU Radio Regulation 148

Definition of right hand (clockwise) polarized wave
AUSTEL
TS 022 Mobilesat terminal compatibility requirements for system access
EIA
RS232-E Interface between data terminal equipment and data circuit-
terminating equipment employing serial binary data interchange
RS422-A Electrical characteristics of balanced voltage digital interface circuits
OTHER Mobilesat air interface specification
(NOTE: This document can only be accessed via OPTUS.)
3.2 Related documents Attention is drawn to the following related documents:
AS
1000 The International System of Units (SI) and its application

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