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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1999
Terry L. Williams, Melbourne Beach, FL (US);
Airnet Communications Corporation, Melbourne, FL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for a cellular communications network including a broadband transceiver for providing upconversion and downconversion between an RF band-of-interest and an intermediate frequency (IF); a transmultiplexer (XMUX) interfacing with the transceiver. The XMUX demultiplexes a single wideband IF receive signal to form a set of individual frequency channels on a receive path of the transceiver, and multiplexes the frequency channels into a single wideband IF transmit signal on a transmit path. The BBS also includes a rate converter processor (RCP) that interfaces with the XMUX for converting at least one of the frequency channels from a first data rate of the XMUX to a second data rate, and a communications bus that transports the modulated IF signals for each of the frequency channels between the RCP and a plurality of channel processors (CP). Each CP processes any of a plurality of traffic channels contained on any of said IF signals. An alternative architecture for the apparatus is disclosed.