Patent ID: 8050291

Claim:
A method comprising: at a first signal conditioner located at a first remote antenna entity, receiving from a first transceiver, a first non-ultra-wideband signal carrying a first analog baseband signal, wherein the first analog baseband signal represents digital signals for a first set of wireless communication channels, wherein the digital signals are converted to the first analog baseband signal at a clock rate interval for an air interface protocol defining the first set of wireless communication channels, at the first signal conditioner, (i) demodulating the first non-ultra-wideband signal so as to recover the first analog baseband signal, (ii) making power level measurements of the recovered first analog baseband signal at the clock rate interval, (iii) generating a first combined digital signal comprising data bits that represent a power level measurement of the recovered first analog baseband signal measured at the clock rate interval, and (iv) modulating a first carrier signal with the first combined digital signal so as to generate a first ultra-wideband signal carrying the first combined digital signal; and at the second transceiver, receiving from the first signal conditioner the first ultra-wideband signal, and thereafter transmitting the first ultra-wideband signal away from the second transceiver.