Fully photonic wireless broadband base station
AssigneeMikko Vaananen
InventorMikko Vaananen
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Abstract
The invention relates to base stations in communication networks. In more particular the invention relates to cellular base stations such as 3G/4G and WLAN base stations. Some or all of the aforementioned advantages of the invention are accrued with a fully photonic base station (200) that powers itself with solar photons, provides radio network access and relays an optical photonic beam (220, 221, 230, 231) through air encoded with the data from radio signals of computer users and mobile phone users to the Internet and the global telecommunication network. A system engineer can build a network with the inventive base stations in a matter of days. He simply walks to the roof of houses and points the optical beams to other base stations in adjacent houses.
Claims8
A method of providing communication network access by operating at least one base station (200) offering communication network access to a plurality of subscriber terminals (250, 251) via a radio and/or microwave connection, comprising the following steps:
- powering said at least one base station with at least one tandem solar cell in the same location as the base station (120),
- connecting said base station to a communication network with at least one laser data communication link through free space (110, 220, 221),
- the base station is transmitting data from mobile handsets to the Internet without using a power chord to connect to the power grid and without using a data cable to access the communication network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.