Patent ID: 7965977
Filing Date: 2011-06-21
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a network interface device (NID) having a wide area network communication gateway with an wireless access point that has a first frequency converter to convert a transmit signal with a first frequency band into a second frequency band; an input to receive the transmit signal from a digital subscriber loop access multiplexer with the transmit signal carried across a public telephone network to the NID; and one or more ports of the wireless access point to transmit the transmit signal to at least one antenna circuit coupled to the wide area network communication gateway via a coaxial cable, one or more ports of each antenna circuit to receive the transmit signal from the one or more ports of the wireless access point and to convert the second frequency band into the first frequency band with a second frequency converter, an antenna of each antenna circuit to receive a receive signal with the first frequency band and to convert the first frequency band into a third frequency band with a third frequency converter, the receive signal is sent to the wireless access point, the second and third frequency bands are selected to minimize the attenuation of the transmit and receive signals between the wireless access point and each antenna circuit.