Low power microcellular wireless drop interactive network

A network for communicating a plurality of signals between a headend control office and a plurality of subscriber stations in full duplex, bi-directional fashion, comprising:

• a. a headend control office containing headend signal processing circuitry for receiving a plurality of video signals from a plurality of video sources, a plurality of digital signals from a plurality of digital sources, and a plurality of telephony signals from a public switched telecommunications network, and transmitting said video, digital and telephony signals to a plurality of remote node transceivers via a network medium, and for receiving a plurality of subscriber data and telephony signals from said remote node transceivers;
• b. a plurality of remote node transceivers coupled to said headend control office via said network medium, each of said transceivers adapted to receive said video, digital and telephony signals, and transmit said signals, via radiofrequency carrier in a frequency band of substantially 2500 to 2686 Mhz, and in a plurality of sectors, to a plurality of said subscriber stations, and to receive from said subscriber stations via radiofrequency carrier in a frequency band of substantially 2150 and 2162 Mhz a plurality of multiplexed subscriber data and telephony signals and transmit said subscriber signals to said headend control office via said network medium;
• c. a plurality of subscriber stations, arranged in cells, each cell of subscriber stations corresponding to one of said remote node transceivers, each of said subscriber stations comprising:
• 1. a subscriber transceiver adapted to receive said radiofrequency-transmitted video, digital and telephony signals from its corresponding remote node transceiver and to transmit said multiplexed subscriber data and telephony signals to said remote node transceiver via radiofrequency carrier;
• 2. subscriber station signal processing circuitry adapted to couple said video, digital and telephony signals to video, digital and telephony input/output devices, respectively, and to receive subscriber data and telephony signals from said input/output devices and couple said subscriber data and telephony signals to said subscriber transceiver;
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• d. wherein a plurality of said subscriber transceivers are adapted to receive said radiofrequency-transmitted video and digital signals which are cross polarized with respect to radiofrequency signals which a plurality of other of said subscriber transceivers are adapted to receive.

A network for communicating a plurality of signals between a headend control office and a plurality of subscriber stations in full duplex, bi-directional fashion, comprising:

• a. a headend control office containing headend signal processing circuitry for receiving a plurality of video signals from a plurality of video sources, a plurality of digital signals from a plurality of digital sources, and a plurality of telephony signals from a public switched telecommunications network, and transmitting said video, digital and telephony signals to a plurality of remote node transceivers via a plurality of fiber optic links and for receiving a plurality of subscriber data and telephony signals from said remote node transceivers, said circuitry comprising a plurality of satellite receivers for receiving video signals from satellite video transmissions, a plurality of broadcast receivers for receiving video signals from terrestrial video transmissions, interconnection circuitry coupled to a public switched telecommunications network coupling telephony signals to said headend control office, and multiplexing circuitry, modulation circuitry and at least one fiber optic transmitter for multiplexing, modulating and transmitting said video, digital and telephony signals to said remote node transceivers via said fiber optic links;
• b. a plurality of remote node transceivers coupled to said headend control office via said network medium, each of said transceivers adapted to receive said video, digital and telephony signals, and transmit said signals, via radiofrequency carrier in a frequency band of substantially 2500 to 2686 Mhz, and in a plurality of sectors, to a plurality of said subscriber stations, and to receive from said subscriber stations via radiofrequency carrier in a band of substantially 2150 to 2162 Mhz a plurality of multiplexed subscriber data and telephony signals and transmit said subscriber signals to said headend control office via said fiber optic links, said remote node transceivers comprising fiber optic receiver circuitry for receiving said video, digital and telephony signals, radiofrequency transmitter circuitry for transmitting said video, digital signals and telephony signals to said subscriber stations, radiofrequency receiver circuitry for receiving subscriber data and telephony signals from said subscriber stations, and fiber optic transmitter circuitry for transmitting said subscriber signals to said headend control office via said fiber optic links;
• c. a plurality of subscriber stations, arranged in cells, each cell of subscriber stations corresponding to one of said remote node transceivers, each of said subscriber stations comprising:
• 1. a subscriber transceiver adapted to receive said radiofrequency-transmitted video, digital and telephony signals from its corresponding remote node transceiver and to transmit subscriber data and telephony signals to said remote node transceiver via radiofrequency carrier;
• 2. subscriber station signal processing circuitry adapted to couple said video, digital and telephony signals to video, digital and telephony input/output devices, respectively, and to receive subscriber data and telephony signals from said input/output devices and couple said subscriber data and telephony signals to said subscriber transceiver, said signal processing circuitry comprising first diplexer circuitry adapted to separate said video, digital and telephony signals received from said subscriber transceiver from said subscriber signals, downconverter circuitry coupled to said first diplexer for downconverting said video, digital and telephony signals to a form adapted for transmission on coaxial cable, upconverter circuitry coupled to said first diplexer circuitry for upconverting said subscriber signals for coupling to said subscriber transceiver;
• and second diplexer circuitry for coupling said video, digital and telephony signals to said input/output devices and for coupling said subscriber signals to said upconverter;
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• d. wherein a plurality of said subscriber transceivers are adapted to receive said radiofrequency-transmitted video and digital signals which are cross polarized with respect to radiofrequency signals which a plurality of other of said subscriber transceivers are adapted to receive.