Patent ID: 11956185
Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 23:
24. The DCS of claim 23, wherein:
the central unit comprises:
an electrical-to-optical (E/O) converter configured to convert the TDD downlink communications signals into TDD downlink optical communications signals; and
an optical-to-electrical (O/E) converter configured to convert the TDD uplink optical communications signals into the TDD uplink communications signals; and

the plurality of remote units each comprise:
an O/E converter configured to convert a respective one of TDD downlink optical communications signals into a respective one of the TDD downlink communications signals; and
an E/O converter configured to convert a respective one of the TDD uplink communications signals into a respective one of the TDD uplink optical communications signals.