Modular base station with variable communication capacity
CA 2324083 A1 · Owner: Kazakevich, Leonid · Inventors: Ozluturk, Fatih M.; Turner, Richard; Regis, Robert T.
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The present invention provides a base station architecture that is modular in configuration, lowering the initial cost of implementing a new CDMA telecommunication system for a defined geographical region while allowing for future capacity. The scalable architecture is assembled from a digital base station unit that is configured to support a plurality of simultaneous wireless calls connecting to a conventional public switched telephone network. For initial startup, two base station units are deployed for redundancy in case of a single failure. Additional base station units may be added when the need arises for extra traffic capacity. If sectorization is required the base , station …
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- Filed March 17, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended March 17, 2019.
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