Patent ID: 8520578

Claim:
A wireless network for providing services to a plurality of end users, the network comprising: a plurality of nodes, each node being wirelessly connected to at least one other corresponding node for communication by way of a dedicated point-to-point link, each node comprising at least two wireless backhaul modules for communicating with the at least one other corresponding node, the plurality of nodes comprising: a plurality of routing nodes for routing traffic by using at least one wireless signal, wherein at least one routing node further comprises a wireless distribution module for communicating traffic to at least one corresponding wireless end user device, wherein the at least one routing node receives the at least one wireless signal from the at least one other corresponding node by way of the at least two wireless backhaul modules and transmits at least a portion of the at least one wireless signal to the at least one corresponding end user device by way of the wireless distribution module; and at least one network aggregation node for routing the traffic between the wireless network and another network; wherein each wireless backhaul module communicates with only a single corresponding node in the wireless network at any one time, and wherein the wireless backhaul modules of each node are collocated in the node and are configured to minimize interference therebetween.