Operation of radio devices for long-range high-speed wireless communication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9543635-B2
Application number	US-201414170528-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 31, 2014
Priority date	Feb 4, 2013
Publication date	Jan 10, 2017
Grant date	Jan 10, 2017

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for point-to-point or point-to-multipoint transmission/communication of high bandwidth signals. High bandwidth signals may be efficiently transmitted by a radio device having a pair of reflectors separated by an isolation choke boundary. The two reflectors may be connected or formed of a single housing, and may be mounted to a wall, pole, etc. using a quick-connect. The devices may be configured to operate in any appropriate band (e.g., a 5GHz band, a 24 GHz band, etc.) and may be configured for accurate and easy alignment with one or more remote radio devices. Alignment may be assisted by displaying both local and remote transmission information during alignment.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A radio device for the exchange of wireless signals with a second radio device, the radio device:
a first parabolic reflector;
a second parabolic reflector;
a radio circuitry configured for transmission of radio-frequency signals from the first parabolic reflector and configured for reception of radio-frequency signals from the second parabolic reflector;
a first status indicator visible on the outside of the radio device that is configured to indicate the signal strength of wireless signals received by the radio device from the second radio device; and
a second status indicator visible on the outside of the radio device that is configured to indicate the signal strength of wireless signals from the radio device that are received by the second radio device.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the first status indicator and the second status indicator are visible on or through a housing at least partially enclosing the radio circuitry.

3. A radio device for the exchange of wireless signals with a second radio device, the radio device:
a first parabolic reflector;
a second parabolic reflector;
radio circuitry configured for transmission of radio-frequency signals from the first parabolic reflector and configured for reception of radio-frequency signals from the second parabolic reflector;
a housing enclosing the radio circuitry;
a first LED status indicator visible on or through the outside of the housing that is configured to indicate the signal strength of wireless signals received by the radio device from the second radio device; and
a second LED status indicator visible on or through the outside of the housing that is configured to indicate the signal strength of wireless signals from the radio device that are received by the second radio device.

4. The device of claim 1 or 3 , wherein the first status indicator comprises an LEDs indicating the signal strength in dBm.

5. The device of claim 1 or 3 , wherein the second status indicator comprises an LEDs indicating the signal strength in dBm.

6. The device of claim 1 or 3 , further comprising one or more indicators visible on the outside of the radio device configured to indicate one or more of: modulation mode, GPS synchronization status, data port speed, data port link/activity, management port speed, management port link/activity, link (RF) status.

Assignees

• Ubiquiti Networks Inc

Inventors

• Schulz Gary D
• Odlyzko Paul
• Sanford John R
• Lee Jude

Classifications

• H01Q1/42

  Housings not intimately mechanically associated with radiating elements, e.g. radome · CPC title

• H01Q1/521

  reducing the coupling between adjacent antennas · CPC title

• H01Q19/12

  wherein the surfaces are concave (H01Q19/18 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01Q1/1257 Primary

  using the received signal strength · CPC title

• H01Q19/193

  with feed supported subreflector (splash plate feeds H01Q19/134) · CPC title