Patent ID: 7869528

Claim:
A multi-carrier transmitter assembly, comprising: a digital exciter that provides a digital multi-carrier signal from baseband data, the digital multi-carrier signal comprising a plurality of time interleaved digital signals; a digital-to-analog converter that converts the digital multi-carrier signal into an analog multi-carrier signal; a signal distributor that deserializes the analog multi-carrier signal into a plurality of analog carrier signals, the signal distributor comprising a time division demultiplexer that separates the plurality of time interleaved analog signals into the plurality of analog carrier signals; a plurality of antennas, each of the plurality of antennas transmitting at least one of the plurality of analog carrier signals; wherein the signal distributor further comprises at least one passband filter having at least one passband, each of the at least one passband having an associated center frequency, the digital exciter being operative to adjust the respective center frequencies of the at least one passband.