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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2004
Charles H. Bianchi, Durham, NH (US);
Ken C. Greenwood, Bedford, NH (US);
John Sabat, Jr., Merrimack, NH (US);
Charles H. Bianchi, Durham, NH (US);
Ken C. Greenwood, Bedford, NH (US);
John Sabat, Jr., Merrimack, NH (US);
ADC Telecommunications, Inc., Shakopee, MN (US);
Abstract
A simple and low cost architecture for a distribution network is provided for coupling wireless local area network ('wireless LAN') signals between geographically distributed access points and centrally located internetworking devices. The distribution network eliminates complexities involved with the deployment of such systems in the past, which have typically required the computer network-compatible wiring to be extended to each access point directly from an internetworking device such as a repeater, bridge, router, or gateway. The distribution network makes it economically efficient to deploy wireless local area networking equipment in locations where wired network infrastructure is not readily available. In particular, any convenient existing physical wiring, such as may be provided by the existing optical transport cabling of a fiber optic network, is used as a physical layer transport medium to carry the wireless local area network signals between the access points and centrally located network hub equipment.