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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2019
Ventus Ip Holdings, Llc, Dover, DE (US);
Keith Charette, Fairfield, CT (US);
VENTUS IP HOLDINGS, LLC, Dover, DE (US);
Abstract
A router includes a housing, a printed circuit board disposed within the housing, a cellular module disposed within the housing and electrically connected to the printed circuit board, the cellular module being configured to enable connection to a mobile broadband network, at least one antenna terminal formed in the housing for connecting an external antenna to the cellular module, and a switch associated with the at least one antenna terminal, the switch being configured to automatically switch from an internal antenna of the router to the external antenna when the external antenna is connected to the router via the at least one antenna terminal.