Patent ID: 9281866
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G02B,G05F,H04B,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A tower system, comprising: a mounting structure; an antenna mounted on the mounting structure; a remote radio head mounted on the mounting structure; a power supply; a power cable having a power supply conductor and a return conductor connected between the power supply and the remote radio head; and a shunt capacitance unit that is separate from the remote radio head that is electrically coupled between the power supply conductor and the return conductor of the power cable; wherein the power cable comprises a hybrid power/fiber optic cable and the power cable is one of a plurality of individual power cables included in the hybrid power/fiber optic cable, each of which includes a respective power supply conductor and a respective return conductor; and wherein the hybrid power/fiber optic cable includes a breakout enclosure in which the power supply conductors and the return conductors of the plurality of individual power cables are singulated, and wherein the shunt capacitance unit comprises a plurality of shunt capacitance units, and wherein each individual power cable has a respective one of the shunt capacitance units coupled between its power supply conductor and its return conductor within the breakout enclosure.