Wireless antenna traffic matrix
First Claim
1. A beam shaping antenna matrix for use in wireless cell towers having a plurality of antenna panels mounted on a tower and each incorporating at least one antenna, a Butler matrix, and antenna and phasing lines connecting each said antenna panel to said Butler matrix, and a plurality of transceivers located in a tower base and each having an output and two inputs, the antenna matrix comprising a patch panel located in said tower base and having manual connection means at the face thereof for electrically connecting said transceiver inputs and outputs to any of the plurality of antenna panels to adaptively form antenna beams having defined and reconfigurable attributes, said manual connection means being operable by an operator in said tower base from the face of said patch panel to sculpt the beams of said antenna panels to accommodate demographic or other changes.
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Abstract
A beam shaping antenna matrix for use in wireless cell towers that is manually-configured at a patch panel by a wireless operator based on selection of a desired beam size and point of direction. The traffic matrix allows a wireless operator to sculpt and resculpt the beams to accommodate demographic or other changes preferably without a large amount of hardware or intensive processing capability.
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17 Claims
- 1. A beam shaping antenna matrix for use in wireless cell towers having a plurality of antenna panels mounted on a tower and each incorporating at least one antenna, a Butler matrix, and antenna and phasing lines connecting each said antenna panel to said Butler matrix, and a plurality of transceivers located in a tower base and each having an output and two inputs, the antenna matrix comprising a patch panel located in said tower base and having manual connection means at the face thereof for electrically connecting said transceiver inputs and outputs to any of the plurality of antenna panels to adaptively form antenna beams having defined and reconfigurable attributes, said manual connection means being operable by an operator in said tower base from the face of said patch panel to sculpt the beams of said antenna panels to accommodate demographic or other changes.
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3. A beam shaping antenna matrix for use in wireless cell towers having a plurality of antenna panels each incorporating at least one antenna mounted on a cell tower, a Butler matrix, and antenna and phasing lines connecting each said antenna panel to said Butler matrix, and a plurality of transceivers each having receive inputs and transmit outputs, said beam shaping matrix comprising:
a component cabinet located in a control room of a cell tower and housing a plurality of modules for facilitating manual operator-connection of said antennas to said transceivers, said modules further comprising a first type of module having a plurality of panel-mount coaxial connectors for patch-panel coaxial cable connection, and a second type of module having a plurality of open bays for insertion of corresponding personality modules for plug-in interconnection. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of beam shaping, comprising the steps of:
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placing a manual connection matrix in the control room of a wireless towel for access by a wireless operator; allowing said operator to selectively mechanically and electrically connect any transceiver in said tower to any of a plurality of antennas in any of a plurality of antenna panels using calibrated coaxial cables to adaptively form antenna beams having desired and reconfigurable attributes.
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17. A method of beam shaping, comprising the steps of:
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placing a manual connection matrix in the control room of a wireless tower for access by a wireless operator; allowing said operator to mechanically and electrically connect any transceiver in said tower to any of a plurality of antennas in any of a plurality of antenna panels using plug-in personality modules to adaptively form antenna beams having desired and reconfigurable attributes.
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