Patent ID: 8830943

Claim:
An intelligent backhaul radio with intelligent backhaul management system agent comprising: a plurality of receive RF chains; one or more transmit RF chains; an antenna array comprising a plurality of directive gain antenna elements, wherein each directive gain antenna element is couplable to at least one receive RF or transmit RF chain; a modem comprising one or more modulator cores and comprising one or more demodulator cores, wherein each of the one or more modulator cores is coupled to at least one of the one or more transmit RF chains and each of the one or more demodulator cores is coupled to at least one of the plurality of receive RF chains; an interface bridge configured to couple the intelligent backhaul radio to a data network; a media access controller coupled to the modem and the interface bridge, the media access controller configured to exchange data to and from the data network via coupling to at least the interface bridge and configured to exchange data to and from at least one associated other intelligent backhaul radio; a radio resource controller, the radio resource controller configured at least to set or cause to be set a certain RF carrier frequency or channel bandwidth for at least one of the receive RF or transmit RF chains or to select or cause to be selected at least one mapping between one or more of the directive gain antenna elements and one or more of the receive RF or transmit RF chains; and an intelligent backhaul management system agent capable of communicating with at least the radio resource controller, the intelligent backhaul management system agent configured to set or cause to be set certain operational parameters, wherein at least one of said certain operational parameters relates to said certain RF carrier frequency or channel bandwidth for at least one of the receive RF or transmit RF chains or to said mapping between one or more of the directive gain antenna elements and one or more of the receive RF or transmit RF chains, wherein the intelligent backhaul management system agent is configured to exchange the at least one of said certain operational parameters by communication with at least one of a server or other one of other intelligent backhaul management system agents.