Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Sprint Spectrum L.p.

Jason Jugar

Ryan Sanford Talley

Seng Chai Gan

Bryan Barbee

Timothy Wayne Sill

Timothy Hugh Pearson

Henry Burford

Aspects of the present invention monitor an electrical circuit in a power over Ethernet ('PoE') installation to detect potential security breaches and implement a security response upon detecting the security event. The security event may be a disruption to the electrical circuit lasting more than a threshold duration (e.g., 250 ms, 0.5 second, 1 second). The disruption can be an open circuit caused by cutting or unplugging the Ethernet cable. In one aspect, the security response can be discontinuing further communications over the PoE connection.

Security for a power over ethernet installation

Methods and systems are provided for multi-carrier capacity increase in low-cost Internet base station (LCIB) systems by logical grouping of base stations. In an embodiment, an LCIB controller determines that a set of multiple LCIBs should be logically grouped, and selects operational parameters for each LCIB in the set. The LCIB controller designates one LCIB as a primary LCIB, thereby designating the others as secondary LCIBs. The controller configures the primary LCIB to broadcast a pilot beacon that includes at least some of the operational parameters selected for each LCIB, and to operate using the parameters selected for the primary LCIB. The controller also configures each secondary LCIB to not broadcast a pilot beacon, and to operate using the parameters selected for the respective secondary LCIB.

Multi-carrier capacity increase in low-cost internet base station (LCIB) systems by logical grouping of base stations

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Centreville, VA, United States of America

Jason Jugar