Communication satellites

• high bandwidth (eg ~50 Mbps)

• good medium for high-use intínl trunks

• acts as a large microwave repeater

• multiple antennas and transponders

• transponders

  listen to a portion of a spectrum
  
  amplifies signal
  rebroadcasts at another frequency (to avoid interference)
  broadcast beams can be very narrow or broad

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