Patent ID: 8909046

Claim:
A system for transporting a plurality of digital data signals, the system comprising: at least one RF inserter receiving a video signal and outputting an RF signal; at least one master modem outputting a signal modulated with at least one digital signal; an up-convertor system operating on RF signals downstream of an RF inserter and a master modem to output an RF signal having a frequency bandwidth within a single sub-octave; an optical transmitter converting a single sub-octave RF signal downstream of the up-convertor system into an optical signal and directing the optical signal into an optical fiber; an optical receiver downstream of the optical fiber converting the optical signal to an RF signal; a down-convertor system receiving an RF signal downstream of the optical receiver and outputting an RF signal having the video signal encoded thereon; and a slave modem receiving an RF signal having at least one digital signal encoded thereon downstream of the down-convertor system and outputting at least one digital signal, the slave modem configured to delay transmission of an upstream signal to the optical receiver until a transmit notification has been received from a master modem.