摘要 |
A home or business-based local area network (LAN) architecture and system h as an internal LAN that combines the distribution of two or more independently sourced classes of services such as multimedia and data or telephone to multiple use rs within a single building, such as a house, hotel, multiple family dwelling or business/office building. LAN data and analog or digital telephone service is converted to a radio frequency that is then combined with multimedia entertainment services into a single local cable television network, carrying LAN data, and analog and digitally encoded multimedia signals and telephone service. Terminals or devices connect to th e LAN by means of a wall plate which performs the necessary interfacing between a terminal and the LAN, by separating the multimedia and LAN data services and telephone by means of a radio unit which is integrated into the wall plate. Separate connection s are provided for LAN, telephone and multimedia interconnection.
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