Patent ID: 11909432
Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 4:
5. The UDC of claim 2, wherein the base station entities that the UDC is configured to couple the node to includes at least one of:
a baseband unit (BBU) or virtualized BBU (vBBU) configured to communicate over the external communication link using a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) fronthaul interface format or an evolved Common Public Radio Interface (eCPRI) interface format;
an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Distributed Unit (O-DU) or virtualized O-DU (vDU) configured to communicate over the external communication link using an O-RAN fronthaul interface format; and
a small cell BBU (SC BBU) configured to communicate over the external communication link using a proprietary frequency-domain baseband IQ fronthaul interface format configured for use over a switched Ethernet network.