Patent ID: 7027431

Claim:
An in-house signal distribution system including: a main input node mounted in a structure and taking a plurality of external signals for use by different types of devices, converting all of the plurality of external signals into addressed data packets, and conveying all of said addressed data packets in a packet stream to each of a plurality of access node, each access node having a unique node address; each access node being an access port including a main module mounted in a wall of the structure and further including: a main module connector connected to the packet stream; distributing connectors connected to the main module and arranged for connection to different types of video or nonvideo devices, and receive respective ones of the signals distributed by the in-house signal distribution network; a packet handler that picks packets addressed to the access node from the packet stream; and the packet handler converting the picked packets back to their respective ones of the signals and sending the respective ones of the signals to a respective distributing connector of the access node; and a packet stream distributor carrying the packet stream from the main input node output port to each access node main module connector, an access node further including a transceiver in wireless communication with at least one of: the main input node and a device of said different types of devices.