US 11,943,818 B2
Nodes for high frequency fixed wireless access network
Joseph Thaddeus Lipowski, Norwell, MA (US); Chaitanya Kanojia, West Newton, MA (US); Nicholas John Kalita, Jamaica Plain, MA (US); Joseph Anthony Kaiser, Jr., Hopkinton, MA (US); and Daniel Tracy Pond, Boston, MA (US)
Assigned to Starry, Inc., Boston, MA (US)
Filed by Starry, Inc., Boston, MA (US)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2017, as Appl. No. 15/418,317.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/287,605, filed on Jan. 27, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2017/0215210 A1, Jul. 27, 2017
Int. Cl. H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/04 (2017.01); H04B 7/0452 (2017.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 24/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04W 88/10 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/10 (2018.02) [H04B 1/0057 (2013.01); H04B 7/04 (2013.01); H04B 7/0452 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/0682 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 24/04 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/10 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A node in an access network, the node comprising:
a high frequency communication module for transmitting and receiving information to and from one or more aggregation nodes, the high frequency module including:
a WiFi modem including an 802.11 radio chipset, an antenna printed circuit board including an antenna system for transmitting and receiving high frequency signals to and from the one or more aggregation nodes;
an extremely high frequency printed circuit board including up converting circuitry for upconverting WiFi signals from the 802.11 radio chipset to high frequency signals for transmission to the one or more aggregation nodes via the antenna system, and down converting circuitry for downconverting high frequency signals received from the one or more aggregation nodes received by the antenna system to WiFi signals provided to the 802.11 radio chipset,
a metal chassis in which the antenna printed circuit board is secured to one side of the metal chassis and the extremely high frequency printed circuit board is attached to the other side of the metal chassis, and
a metal heat sink, wherein the extremely high frequency printed circuit board is located between the metal chassis and the metal heat sink; and
a local wireless module for transmitting and receiving the information with network devices at a premises via a local wireless access point that maintains a wireless local area network for the subscriber's premises.