Patent ID: 8718085

Claim:
A system comprising: a satellite antenna to receive communications from a satellite network; and an outdoor broadband unit connected to an external portion of a customer premises along with the satellite antenna, the outdoor broadband unit including: a radio frequency (RF) antenna to receive communications from a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network, a LTE module to implement an air interface for the LTE network, the LTE module including a control plane module to perform control operations relating to testing of the LTE module and a forwarding plane module to transfer user data, a coaxial network controller to provide an interface to a local area network (LAN), associated with the customer premises, for Ethernet over coaxial signals, a broadband home router to route traffic, from the LAN, to both the control plane module and the forwarding plane module of the LTE module, wherein the broadband home router includes a memory to buffer Ethernet traffic between the coaxial network controller and the LTE module, and a radome to contain the RF antenna, the LTE module, the coaxial network controller, and the broadband home router.