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Patent US10447378
Issued 2019-10-15
Wireless Mesh Network For Broadband Connectivity
Network hardware devices organized in a wireless mesh network (WMN) in which a home access node (HAN) device that includes a first set of radios, each of the first set of radios being coupled to a beam-steering antenna and each of the first set of radios establishing a first point-to-point (PtP) wireless connection over which the HAN relay device communicates with a second HAN relay device in a first sub-mesh network of HAN relay devices. The HAN device also includes a second set of radios, each of the second set of radios being coupled to a beam-steering antenna and each of the second set of radios establishing a second PtP wireless connection over which the HAN relay device communicates with at least one of a plurality of HAN devices in a second sub-mesh network in the WMN.
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- 1. A wireless mesh network (WMN) for broadband connectivity to broadband Internet infrastructure, the WMN comprising:
a first sub-mesh network comprising a plurality of home access node (HAN) devices, each HAN device of the plurality of HAN devices being individually connected to a building in a geographic area, wherein a first HAN device, of the plurality of HAN devices, is an access point to provide Internet connectivity to a client consumption device located in a first building to which the first HAN device is connected, wherein the first HAN device comprises a first radio to communicate data with a second HAN device of the plurality of HAN devices in the first sub-mesh network; a second sub-mesh network comprising a plurality of HAN relay devices, each HAN relay device of the plurality of HAN relay devices being individually connected to structures in the geographic area, wherein a first HAN relay device of the plurality of HAN relay devices comprises:
a first set of two radios, each of the first set of two radios coupled to a beam-steering antenna and each of the first set of two radios to establish a point-to-point (PtP) wireless connection over which the first HAN relay device communicates data with a second HAN relay device of the plurality of HAN relay devices in the second sub-mesh network; and
a second set of four radios, each of the second set of four radios coupled to a beam-steering antenna and each of the second set of four radios to establish a PtP wireless connection over which the first HAN relay device communicates data with at least one of the plurality of HAN devices in the first sub-mesh network; and
a base station node (BSN) device connected to a tower in the geographic area, and wherein the BSN device comprises:
a first radio to communicate data with a server of a content delivery network (CDN) over at least one of a first wired connection or a PtP wireless connection; and
a set of four radios, each of the set of four radios coupled to a beam-steering antenna and each of the set of four radios to establish a PtP wireless connection over which the BSN device wirelessly communicates data with the first HAN relay device.
- 5. A home access node (HAN) relay device comprising:
a first set of radios, each of the first set of radios coupled to a beam-steering antenna and each of the first set of radios to establish a first point-to-point (PtP) wireless connection over which the HAN relay device communicates digital content data with a second HAN relay device in a first sub-mesh network of HAN relay devices in a wireless mesh network (WMN), wherein: (i) at least one radio of the first set of radios is to establish a third PtP wireless connection over which the HAN relay device receives the digital content data from a base station node (BSN) device; (ii) the BSN device is an ingress point for digital content data into the first sub-mesh network of HAN relay devices; (iii) the HAN relay devices communicates the digital content data amongst each other; and (iv) each of the HAN relay devices is coupled to at least one of a plurality of HAN devices that form a second sub-mesh network and communicates the digital content data amongst each other; and a second set of radios, each of the second set of radios coupled to a beam-steering antenna and each of the second set of radios to establish a second PtP wireless connection over which the HAN relay device communicates the digital content data with one of a plurality of HAN devices in a second sub-mesh network in the WMN.
- 15. A method of operating a home access node (HAN) relay device in a wireless mesh network (WMN), wherein the WMN includes a first sub-mesh network and a second sub-mesh network, the method comprising:
communicating, by a first radio coupled to a first beam-steering antenna, first digital content data with a second HAN relay device in the first sub-mesh network over a first point-to-point (PtP) wireless connection; communicating, by a second radio coupled to a second beam-steering antenna, second digital content data with a third HAN relay device in the first sub-mesh network over a second PtP wireless connection; communicating, by a third radio coupled to a third beam-steering antenna, third digital content data with a first HAN device in the second sub-mesh network over a third PtP wireless connection; and communicating, by a fourth radio coupled to a fourth beam-steering antenna, fourth digital content data with a second HAN device in the second sub-mesh network over a fourth PtP wireless connection; and communicating, by a fifth radio coupled to a fifth beam-steering antenna, fifth digital content data with a base station node (BSN) device over a fifth PtP wireless connection, wherein the BSN device is an ingress point for digital content into the first sub-mesh network of HAN relay devices, wherein the HAN relay devices communicate the digital content data amongst each other, wherein each of the HAN relay devices is coupled to at least one of the HAN devices that form the second sub-mesh network and communicate the digital content amongst each other.
