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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2004
William H. Berkman, New York, NY (US);
David Stanley Yaney, Poolesville, MD (US);
James Douglas Mollenkopf, Fairfax, VA (US);
William H. Berkman, New York, NY (US);
David Stanley Yaney, Poolesville, MD (US);
James Douglas Mollenkopf, Fairfax, VA (US);
Current Technologies, LLC, Germantown, MD (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a system for operating a power line communications system that employs surface wave communications and conducted communications. The system is comprised of a plurality of network elements, which may take the form of repeaters, communication interface devices, backhaul devices, medium voltage transducers, distribution points, aggregation points, and others. In one embodiment, surface waves are communicated over the medium voltage power lines and the conducted communications are communicated via the low voltage power lines to and from customer premises.