Patent ID: 8401486

Claim:
Wireless base station equipment comprising: a plurality of amplifiers; and a modulation and demodulation equipment having a monitoring control link with each of the plurality of amplifiers, wherein the modulation and demodulation equipment includes a plurality of transmission and reception-integrated sections that respectively terminate communications with the plurality of amplifiers and a monitoring control section that performs a monitoring control of each of the plurality of amplifiers, and each of the plurality of amplifiers includes a plurality of cards as respective functional sections and a transmission and reception-integrated section that collects transmission and reception signals input to and output from each of the plurality of cards and terminates communication with a corresponding transmission and reception-integrated section of the modulation and demodulation equipment, each transmission and reception-integrated section of the modulation and demodulation equipment obtains, from a transmission and reception-integrated section of a corresponding amplifier via a monitoring control link with the corresponding amplifier, information related to the corresponding amplifier which includes card slot information identifying a slot in which each card is mounted at the corresponding amplifier and a card state of each slot, and the monitoring control section of the modulation and demodulation equipment performs the monitoring control based on the obtained information.