Patent ID: 7912506

Claim:
A communications system providing wireless communication for a plurality of cellular base stations, said system comprising: A) at least one connecting station comprising at least one millimeter wave wireless transceiver in communication with a fiber optic or high-speed cable communication network and adapted to communicate at millimeter wave frequencies higher than 60 GHz with another millimeter wave transceiver at at least one of said cellular base stations; B) a plurality of cellular base stations, each of said base stations serving a communication cell and each of said base stations comprising: 1) at least one low frequency wireless transceiver for communicating with a plurality of users within said communication cell at a radio frequency lower than 6 GHz; 2) at least one millimeter wave wireless transceiver operating at a millimeter wave frequency higher than 60 GHz for communicating with another millimeter wave transceiver at another base station or a millimeter wave transceiver at said at least one connecting station; and 3) a data transfer means for transferring data communicated through said at least one low frequency transceiver to said at least one millimeter wave wireless transceiver and for transferring data communicated through said at least one millimeter wave wireless transceiver to said at least one low frequency wireless transceiver; wherein at least one of said cellular base stations is a mobile base station.