Patent ID: 8289991

Claim:
A network for non-wired communication between first and second non-wired data units respectively located at first and second locations and communicating with each other over existing wiring in a building to concurrently carry a bi-directional packet-based wired digital data signal and a power signal, said network comprising: a first device housed in a first single enclosure, said first device being connected at the first location to transmit and receive digital data over the wiring, said first device being a non-wired device communicatively couplable to exchange packet-based digital data over a non-wired medium with the first non-wired data unit, said first device further being operative to transmit to the wiring data received from the first non-wired data unit and to transmit to the first non-wired data unit digital data received from the wiring; and a second device housed in a second single enclosure, said second device being connected at the second location to transmit and receive digital data over the wiring, said second device being a non-wired device communicatively couplable to exchange packet-based digital data over a non-wired medium with the second non-wired data unit, said second device further being operative to transmit to the wiring data received from second non-wired data unit and to transmit to the second non-wired data unit digital data received from the wiring; wherein said network is operative to transparently and bi-directionally pass digital data between the first and second non-wired data units, and wherein said first device is at least in part powered from the power signal carried over the wiring.