Patent ID: 11956685
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A system for switching a dynamic radio on a single RU between RAT protocols, comprising:
a storage configured to store instructions;
a processor configured to execute the instructions and cause the processor to:
receive a report of conditions of client capabilities and network conditions of a static radio of a first radio unit (RU) and a dynamic radio of the first RU, wherein the static radio is configured at boot-up and retains a network interface and the dynamic radio is reconfigurable to provide dynamic network service access across a plurality of different Radio Access Technologies (RATS),
determine that network service access needs of a User Equipment (UE) require that the dynamic radio switch from a first RAT to a second RAT of the plurality of different RATs based on the report of conditions of client capabilities and network conditions, send instructions to the first RU to switch the dynamic radio to the second RAT; and
prior to the receiving the conditions, configure, by a centralized multi-protocol software-defined RAN intelligent controller (SD-RIC), the static radio to provide network service access through either 5G or Wi-Fi at boot-up.