Patent ID: 8290483

Claim:
A system comprising: a hub unit configured to receive wireless analog downlink radio frequency signals from a plurality of base stations, wherein the plurality of base stations comprise base stations from more than one wireless service provider; a plurality of radio access nodes, each of the plurality of radio access nodes located at a respective location that is remote from the hub unit; wherein the hub unit is configured to digitize each analog downlink radio frequency signal in order to generate respective downlink digital data indicative of that analog downlink radio frequency signal; wherein the hub unit comprises a reconfigurable interconnect to selectively provide, to each of the plurality of radio access nodes using a shared transport medium, the downlink digital data associated with a respective two or more of the analog downlink radio frequency signals; where each of the plurality of radio access nodes is configured to reconstruct, from the downlink digital data provided to that radio access node, an analog radio frequency version of each of the associated two or more analog downlink radio frequency signals and radiate each reconstructed analog radio frequency version in a respective coverage area associated with that radio access node.