Patent ID: 7953367

Claim:
A hybrid multispot satellite broadcasting system comprising at least one satellite capable of multibeam broadcasting of beams in respective frequency bandwidths, each one of said beams adapted to be broadcast towards a terrestrial repeater which is capable of receiving, processing and re-transmitting said beam in a frequency bandwidth B T which is different from that of the bandwidth B S of the beam received, characterized in that a bandwidth of a signal re-transmitted from a first terrestrial repeater contains a frequency range substantially equal to a bandwidth used for a beam broadcast from said satellite to at least a second terrestrial repeater corresponding to a different area of coverage from said first terrestrial repeater, wherein B T =k×B S and 1≦k≦2 for time division multiplexing (TDM) mode transmission, and wherein k corresponds to a difference between a satellite channel coding rate and a terrestrial channel coding rate, and wherein k=1 for CDM mode transmission.