Patent ID: 8634339

Claim:
A method for wirelessly relaying data between a Core Network and a Radio Access Network (RAN), utilizing an aggregated Radio Frequency (RF) power of a plurality of radio transceiver chains, comprising: operating a RAN comprising a wireless Base Station (BS), the wireless BS comprising N radio transceiver chains and corresponding N RAN antennas, wherein N is equal to at least two; communicating data wirelessly between at least one wireless Subscriber Station (SS) and the wireless BS, via the N radio transceiver chains and the corresponding N RAN antennas; disconnecting, by the wireless BS, the N radio transceiver chains from the N RAN antennas; connecting, by the wireless BS, the N radio transceiver chains to N radio signal pathways leading to M Backhaul antennas belonging to the wireless BS; and wirelessly communicating at least some of the data, via the N radio transceiver chains and the M Backhaul antennas, between the wireless BS and a wireless transceiver of the Core Network, utilizing the aggregated RF power of the N radio transceiver chains.