Reducing cost of cellular backhaul
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN Β· China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- VANU INC
- Publication Date
- 2007-07-11
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable Β· inactive patent
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Abstract
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[0001] This application claims priority to US Provisional Application No. 60 / 578,266, entitled "Reducing the Cost of Cellular Backhaul," filed June 9, 2004, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. technical field
[0002] The following description refers to the radio system Background technique
[0003] In today's cellular systems, voice, data and signaling traffic must be backhauled from the cell tower site to the central office where the mobile switching center is located. Typically, backhaul refers to passing data to the core network between, for example, a base station and a base station controller. In some cases, backhauling can include sending network data on "off-the-record" routes (including delivering it farther than its destination) in order to deliver the data more quickly or at a lower cost to its destination. Currently, most of this backhaul occurs on dedicated T1 lines. There are also some wireless backhaul modes mainly for small range ni...