Patent ID: 9042864
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An appliance deployed in a mobile data network that includes a plurality of basestations, each basestation communicating with a corresponding antenna that transmits and receives radio signals to and from user equipment, wherein the plurality of basestations are part of a radio access network that communicates with a core network in the mobile data network, the appliance comprising: a plurality of enclosures coupled to each other to allow communication between the plurality of enclosures, the plurality of enclosures comprising: an appliance mechanism residing in a memory in the second hardware in the second enclosure and executed by at least one processor in the second hardware, the appliance mechanism logically grouping together the first hardware, the first software, the second hardware, and the second software so the first hardware, the first software, the second hardware, and the second software are treated as one logical entity by components in the mobile data network external to the appliance, wherein the appliance mechanism comprises: