Patent ID: 8639285

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 communicate with a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network, 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 LTE module to implement an air interface for the LTE network, the LTE module including a library of commands associated with control plane functions for a LTE radio link wherein the commands include attention (AT) commands, and a broadband home router to route traffic, from the LAN, to the LTE module and to provide one or more of the commands to the LTE module, to implement control plane functions for the LTE network, based on activity within the LAN.