Patent ID: 8953504
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A regenerator for a multi-band network, the network including a leaky feeder, at least one repeater along the leaky feeder, each repeater having, for each channel of the time division duplexed signal, a pair of access points, the first access point of the pair being configured in a first mode and the second access point of the pair being configured in a second mode, the pair of access points being linked by a broadband serial wired data connection, the regenerator comprising: an input for receiving and demultiplexing a multi-band signal, the multi-band signal comprising a plurality of signals of different technologies, each technology being carried on a predetermined frequency band; a plurality of filters, each filter corresponding to one of the predetermined frequency bands; for each technology, a corresponding amplifier for amplifying the corresponding filtered signal; for each channel of a time division duplexed signal of the multi-band signal, a pair of access points, the first access point of the pair being configured in a first mode and the second access point of the pair being configured in a second mode, the pair of access points being linked by a broadband serial wired data connection; a combiner for combining the amplified signals and the channels of the time division duplexed signal; and an output for retransmitting the combined signals over the multi-band network; wherein the first mode is a client mode and the second mode is an access mode.