Patent ID: 6188912
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A remote base station architecture for wireless transmission of data, voice, video and/or multimedia information comprising:one or more first buses having a plurality of telecommunication channels;one or more second buses having a plurality of telecommunication channels, the number of channels in the second bus being less than the number of channels in the first bus;a front end having one or more switches capable of mapping traffic from the first bus to the second bus;a remote end having one or more modems for modulating traffic on the second bus for wireless transmission to a subscriber and for demodulating a wireless transmission from a subscriber onto the second bus;a communication link between the front end of the base station and the remote end of the base station;the second bus carrying traffic between the switches and the modems via the communication link, the second bus including at least one control channel through which the front end directly controls the one or more modems at the remote end.