Patent ID: 11916596
Assignee: CORNING OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS RF, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. The distributed RAN of claim 18, wherein the server apparatus further comprises:
a baseband unit (BBU) configured to:
receive a downlink composite digital communications signal from a core network communicatively coupled to the BBU; and
provide an uplink composite digital communications signal to the core network; and

a digital routing unit (DRU) coupled between the BBU and the server communication interface, the DRU configured to:
receive and convert the downlink composite digital communications signal into a plurality of downlink digital communications signals;
provide the plurality of downlink digital communications signals to the plurality of wireless transceiver nodes via the server communication interface;
receive a plurality of uplink digital communications signals from the plurality of wireless transceiver nodes via the server communication interface;
convert the plurality of uplink digital communications signals into the uplink composite digital communications signal; and
provide the uplink composite digital communications signal to the BBU.