Patent ID: 11943818
Assignee: STARRY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A node in an access network, the node comprising:
a high frequency communication module for transmitting and receiving information to and from one or more aggregation nodes, the high frequency module including:
a WiFi modem including an 802.11 radio chipset, an antenna printed circuit board including an antenna system for transmitting and receiving high frequency signals to and from the one or more aggregation nodes;
an extremely high frequency printed circuit board including up converting circuitry for upconverting WiFi signals from the 802.11 radio chipset to high frequency signals for transmission to the one or more aggregation nodes via the antenna system, and down converting circuitry for downconverting high frequency signals received from the one or more aggregation nodes received by the antenna system to WiFi signals provided to the 802.11 radio chipset,
a metal chassis in which the antenna printed circuit board is secured to one side of the metal chassis and the extremely high frequency printed circuit board is attached to the other side of the metal chassis, and
a metal heat sink, wherein the extremely high frequency printed circuit board is located between the metal chassis and the metal heat sink; and

a local wireless module for transmitting and receiving the information with network devices at a premises via a local wireless access point that maintains a wireless local area network for the subscriber's premises.