Patent ID: 7995604

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a first supporting board for supporting circuitry including transceiver circuitry; first and second radio transceiver integrated circuit die supported by the first supporting board; at least one intra-device local transceiver formed upon each of the first and second radio transceiver integrated circuit die, the at least one intra-device local transceiver supporting wireless communications with at least one other of the intra-device local transceivers formed upon the first and second radio transceiver integrated circuit die; wherein the first radio transceiver integrated circuit die includes: a wave guide formed within a dielectric substrate of the first radio transceiver integrated circuit die operable to guide very high radio frequency signals within the defined volume; a first substrate local transceiver operable to transmit the very high radio frequency (RF) signals through the wave guide; a second substrate local transceiver operable to receive the very high radio frequency signals from the wave guide; and wherein a first intra-device local transceiver is communicatively coupled to the first substrate local transceiver and is operable to wirelessly transmit low power RF signals to a second intra-device transceiver; and wherein each of the intra-device local transceivers is operable to communicate utilizing a carrier sense multiple access scheme wherein each of the intra-device local transceivers is operable to transmit a request-to-send signal to a receiver to which a communication is to be sent only when the communication exceeds a specified packet size.