Patent ID: 9736436
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H04H,H04N

Claim:
1. An integrated switch with transponder stacking, comprising: a digital crosspoint switch comprising: a plurality of transponder stacker circuits coupled to the plurality of switch outputs, each transponder stacker circuit of the plurality of transponder stacker circuits coupled to a respective subset of the plurality of switch outputs, wherein the respective subset of the plurality of switch outputs contains at least six switch outputs, each of the at least six switch outputs corresponding to an individually selected transponder for the switch output according to the selection input signal and wherein at least one transponder stacker circuit of the plurality of transponder stacker circuits receives signals corresponding to different satellites on the respective subset of the plurality of switch outputs of the digital crosspoint switch, and each transponder stacker circuit configured to transponder stack signals received on the respective subset of the plurality of switch outputs to enable each transponder stacker circuit to be able to output a respective different unique combined signal, each respective unique combined signal including a unique combination of the individual transponders of the plurality of transponders according to the selection input signal, and to enable duplicate transponders between each unique combination of the individual transponders, the unique combination of transponders of the plurality of transponders including transponders corresponding to different satellites.