Microwave Ring Array for Carrier-Grade Wireless Network Redundancy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless telecommunications systems lack the bandwidth, speed, and reliability needed to achieve carrier-grade standards, particularly in rural and suburban areas, where high-cost hard-wired networks are often uneconomical, resulting in a digital divide.
Innovation Solution
A wireless telecommunications system utilizing point-to-point microwave technology with GPS time synchronization, transceivers, and a software-based management system, combined with licensed radio frequency communications and MPLS switching, to provide redundant and reliable connectivity over wide geographical areas, including satellite links, enabling flexible network configurations and redundancy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If hard-wired networks are implemented to provide carrier-grade service, then reliability and bandwidth are improved, but deployment cost increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces physical hard-wired infrastructure with wireless microwave transmission systems. The microwave links provide carrier-grade reliability through redundancy and error correction protocols while eliminating the need for expensive physical cable installation in rural and remote areas, directly resolving the contradiction between reliability and deployment cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the transmission medium from electrical/optical signals through cables to electromagnetic microwave signals through air. This parameter change enables carrier-grade service delivery without the infrastructure costs of hard-wired systems, as microwave towers can be deployed more economically than extensive cable networks in dispersed populations.
2Ease of manufacture
If wireless systems are used to reduce deployment cost, then ease of manufacture is improved, but bandwidth and reliability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the wireless network into multiple microwave links forming a mesh topology with redundant paths. This segmentation allows traffic to be routed through alternative paths if one link fails, providing carrier-grade reliability while maintaining the cost advantages of wireless deployment over hard-wired alternatives.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements redundant microwave links and backup transmission paths before failures occur. This beforehand cushioning ensures that if any single link or node fails, service continuity is maintained through pre-established alternative routes, achieving carrier-grade reliability without requiring expensive hard-wired infrastructure.
3Area of stationary object
If microwave towers are deployed to provide wide area coverage, then service area is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs microwave towers with multi-functional capabilities, including integrated transceivers, switching equipment, and routing functions. This universality allows each tower to perform multiple network functions, reducing the need for separate specialized equipment and simplifying overall network complexity while maintaining wide geographic coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple network functions (transmission, switching, routing, and management) into integrated microwave tower units. This merging of functions reduces the number of separate components and simplifies network operations, making the complex infrastructure more manageable while providing extensive geographic coverage.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enables carrier-grade telephony and data communications over wide areas, providing high reliability and flexibility, allowing for continuous service even in the event of failures, and is economically deployable in both rural and urban regions, bridging the digital divide.
Implementation Method 1
licensed point-to-point radio frequency communications in the microwave spectrum
Implementation Method 2
GPS (global positional system) time synchronization
Implementation Method 3
free space optical (laser or equivalent carrying modulated optical frequencies in a manner equivalent to optical fiber)
Data Source
AI summary
A method and apparatus for implementing and managing a network architecture capable of delivering wireless telephony and data services of carrier class quality over a local or wide-area network using industry standard wireless protocols is disclosed. A high bandwidth microwave ring array provides redundant point-to-point communications between nodes that are located to optimize geographical coverage through radio-frequency wireless transceivers. The total system is managed and monitored through web-based software to provide the speed and reliability of wired systems at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems, facilitating service in rural areas or areas of dispersed populations where other communications infrastructure is impractical.