WinLink™ 1000 User Manual Release 1.9 B-1Appendix BLink Budget CalculatorOverviewThe Link Budget Calculator is a utility for calculating the expected perfor-mance of the WinLink™ 1000 wireless link and the possible configurationsfor a specific link range.The utility allows you to calculate the expected RSS of the link, and find thetype of services and their effective throughput as a function of the linkrange and deployment conditions.User InputYou are required to enter or choose the following parameters. Dependingon the product, some of the parameters have a default value that cannot bechanged.• Band, which determines frequency and regulation• Channel Bandwidth (fixed to 20 MHz for WinLink™ 1000)• Tx Power (maximum Tx power per modulation is validated)• Antenna Type (cannot be changed for ODU with integrated antenna)• Antenna Gain per site (cannot be changed for integrated antenna)• Cable Loss per site (cannot be changed for integrated antenna)• Required Fade Margin• Rate (and Adaptive check box)• Service Type• Required RangeLink Budget Calculator Internal DataFor each product (or Regulation and Band) the calculator stores the follow-ing data required for link budget calculations:• Maximum Transmit power (per modulation)• Receiver Sensitivity (per modulation) for Ethernet service and forTDM services at various BER• Maximum linear input power (used to calculate minimum distance)
