(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 6,665,546 B2 Slaughter Et Al
USOO6665546B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 6,665,546 B2 Slaughter et al. (45) Date of Patent: *Dec. 16, 2003 (54) HIGH SPEED, POINT-TO-POINT, (56) References Cited MILLIMETER WAVE DATED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 5,701,591 A * 12/1997 Wong .......................... 455/63 (75) Inventors: Louis Slaughter, Weston, MA (US); 5,890.055 A * 3/1999 Chu et al...................... 455/23 Jon Hill, Socorro, NM (US); Thomas 5.936,578 A * 8/1999 Driessen et al. .............. 455/65 Lambert, Makawao, HI (US); Huan Nguyen, Annandale, VA (US); Randall (List continued on next page.) Olsen, Carlsbad, CA (US); John Lovberg, San Diego, CA (US); Primary Examiner William Trost Kenneth Y. Tang, Alpine, CA (US); ASSistant Examiner Rafael Perez-Gutierrez Vladimir Kolinko, San Diego, CA (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm John R. Ross; John R. Ross, (US) III (73) Assignee: Trex Enterprises Corporation, San (57) ABSTRACT Diego, CA (US) A point-to-point, wireless, millimeter wave trunk line com (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this munications link at high data rates in excess of 1 Gbps and patent is extended or adjusted under 35 at ranges of Several miles during normal weather conditions. U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. This link is combined with an Ethernet network to provide high Speed digital data communication among a large num This patent is Subject to a terminal dis ber of users. In a preferred embodiment a trunk line com claimer. munication link operates within the 92 to 95 GHZ portion of the millimeter spectrum.
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