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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2022
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Bernard Mckibben, Golden, CO (US);
Rakesh Taori, McKinney, TX (US);
John Kim, Centreville, VA (US);
Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Superior, CO (US);
Tao Wan, Ottawa, CA;
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing a multi-access virtualized radio access network includes a multi-access centralized unit (MA CU) for serving a plurality of access networks using different communication protocols with a common access granting function, a common user plane buffering and sequencing, a common header compression, common security plane, and a common quality of service mapping for the plurality of access networks. An MA CU includes a wireless interface performing network access functions between wireless networking devices using a cellular communication protocol and a core network using the cellular communication protocol and a wireline interface for performing network access functions between wireline networking devices using a wireline communication protocol and the core network using the cellular communication protocol. A multi-access distributed unit and several network topologies are also disclosed.