Patent ID: 8611809

Claim:
A system comprising: a plurality of amplifiers, each of the plurality of amplifiers for amplifying one of a plurality of signals received from a respective one of a plurality of transponders, the plurality of signals having L carriers; a network, coupled to the plurality of amplifiers, for frequency-translating each of the amplified signals into a frequency-translated signal; a plurality of analog-to-digital (A/D) converters, wherein each A/D converter is communicatively coupled to receive a respective frequency-translated signal; a plurality of filters for channelizing the output of the plurality of A/D converters into a plurality of channelized signals, wherein the plurality of filters comprises L′ filters, wherein L′>L and L′ is a plurality of two; and a combiner, coupled to outputs of the filters, for combining selected ones of the plurality of channelized signals into a stacked output.