Systems and methods for supporting both pulse amplitude modulation and quadrature amplitude modulation

A wireless extender system to bridge between a first wireline and a second wireline, the wireless extender system comprising:

• a first electronic device to receive IQ data as pairs of PAM-n signals over the first wireline and retransmit the IQ data over a wireless channel as a wireless QAM signal;
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• a second electronic device to receive the IQ data as the wireless QAM signal over the wireless channel and retransmit the IQ data over the second wireline as the pairs of PAM-n signals.

A wireline extender system to bridge between a first wireless channel and a second wireless channel, the wireless extender system comprising:

• a first electronic device to receive IQ data over the first wireless channel as a first wireless QAM signal and retransmit the IQ data over a wireline channel as pairs of PAM-n signals;
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• a second electronic device to receive the IQ data as the pairs of PAM-n signals over the wireline channel and retransmit the IQ data over the second wireless channel as a second wireless QAM signal.

An electronic device comprising:

• hybrid PAM/QAM receiver circuitry configured to obtain input IQ data based on received pairs of PAM-n signals;
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• hybrid PAM/QAM transmitter circuitry configured to transmit output IQ data as transmitted pairs of PAM-n signals using a carrier frequency less than or equal to a symbol rate of the IQ data.