Patent ID: 11956685
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a report of conditions of a static radio of a first radio unit (RU) and a dynamic radio of the first RU, wherein the static radio is configured at boot-up and retains a network interface and the dynamic radio is reconfigurable to provide dynamic network service access across a plurality of different Radio Access Technologies (RATS);
determining that network service access needs of a User Equipment (UE) require that the dynamic radio switch from a first RAT to a second RAT of the plurality of different RATs based on the report of conditions;
sending instructions to the first RU to switch the dynamic radio to the second RAT; and
prior to the receiving the conditions, configuring, by a centralized multi-protocol software-defined RAN intelligent controller (SD-RIC), the static radio to provide network service access through either 5G or Wi-Fi at boot-up.