Patent ID: 7477651

Claim:
An apparatus for communicating data, comprising: a cell site element associated with a base transceiver station and operable to: receive a plurality of bits of a plurality of packets of a communications flow; suppress a selected one or more of the bits that are similar to previously received bits; place the other bits in a low latency queue to yield a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) packet; and generate a plurality of interrupt signals at a plurality of interrupt time intervals at which GSM packets are to be sent, the cell site element being further operable to interleave one or more voice data segments associated with a voice call into outgoing Internet protocol (IP) traffic flows by; determining that one or more packets of the flow that do not come in from a GSM port on the cell site element are default best effort (BE) traffic; placing the BE traffic in a queue for subsequent transmission; when an interrupt signal occurs, determining when there is a GSM packet in the low latency queue; when there is a GSM packet, sending the GSM packet over a backhaul link; and when there is no GSM packet, sending a first piece of a large packet of the BE traffic over backhaul link.