Patent ID: 11871284
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
a radio-based network covering a geographic area using a plurality of radio units corresponding to base stations of a radio access network, wherein a particular radio unit of the plurality of radio units supports both a first access technology and a second access technology, and the first access technology and the second access technology use a different physical layer and a different media access control layer but use a network layer that is in common; and
at least one computing device configured to at least:
process first data sent by a first wireless device connected to the particular radio unit via the first access technology using a common processing element; and
process second data sent by a second wireless device connected to the particular radio unit via the second access technology using the common processing element, wherein the common processing element performs a distributed unit (DU) network function both on the first data sent via the first access technology and the second data sent via the second access technology, wherein the common processing element that performs the DU network function is located in a provider substrate extension of a cloud provider network at an edge location.