Patent ID: 7409159

Claim:
A method for coupling optical wavelength division multiplexed (OWDM) networks having one or more OWDM channels, the method comprising: receiving the one or more OWDM channels from a first OWDM network, each OWDM channel having a different OWDM wavelength; converting each one of the one or more OWDM channels to a wireless frequency division multiplexing (WFDM) channel to produce one or more radio frequency WFDM channels at a plurality of WFDM frequencies, each WFDM frequency for each WFDM channel being different from the WFDM frequency for each other WFDM channel, and each WFDM frequency corresponding to an OWDM wavelength; radiating the one or more WFDM channels; receiving the one or more WFDM channels; converting each received WFDM channel from the WFDM frequency for the received WFDM channel to the corresponding OWDM wavelength for the received WFDM channel to produce one or more received OWDM channels; and coupling the one or more received OWDM channels into a second OWDM network.