Patent ID: 8229497

Claim:
A distributed antenna system comprising: a plurality of distributed antenna units; and a multi-port hub comprising: a first interface for connection to a base transceiver station of a telecommunications system, the first interface comprising a plurality of downlink ports for receiving a plurality of downlink signals transmitted from the base transceiver station, the plurality of downlink signals having overlapping transmit frequencies and containing different communication content and a plurality of uplink ports for sending a plurality of uplink signals received from at least one of the distributed antenna units; a second interface having a plurality of downlink ports for communicatively coupling the multi-port hub to the plurality of distributed antenna units and the second interface having a plurality of uplink ports for communicatively coupling the multi-port hub to the plurality of distributed antennas units; and means for reconfiguring the multi-port hub among a plurality of predetermined configurations, each configuration routing one or more downlink ports of the first interface to a selected group of the downlink ports of the second interface and routing a selected group of the uplink ports of the second interface to one or more of the uplink ports of the first interface such that each of the plurality of downlink signals are transmitted by one or more of the distributed antennas and each distributed antenna only transmits one of the downlink signals.