Patent ID: 7272417

Claim:
A Base Transceiver Subsystem (BTS) capable of operating in a diversity mode and a plurality of remediation modes, comprising: a plurality of transceivers each having an output, the individual transceiver outputs being configured to provide signals to respective ones of at least two antenna branches, and wherein the at least two antenna branches are operational while the BTS operates in the diversity mode; a controller including a processor configured to select a mode of operation of the BTS and a fault detector configured to provide a status of faults to the processor; and at least one recombiner, the recombiner being operational to reroute signals associated with one of the at least two antenna branches in response to a selection of an active remediation mode of the plurality of remediation modes and the recombiner being disabled in response to a selection of a passive remediation mode of the plurality of remediation modes, wherein the processor selects between the diversity mode and the plurality of remediation modes based, at least in part, on the status of faults.