Patent ID: 8908607

Claim:
A telecommunications system, comprising: a head end unit configured for communicating, with remotely located units, channelized digital baseband signals that include call information for wireless communication, the head end unit including: channelizer circuitry configured for extracting, per channel, the channelized digital baseband signals using channel filters and digital down-converters; and transport circuitry configured for formatting the channelized digital baseband signals for transport together using a transport schedule unit configured for packetizing and packet scheduling the channelized digital baseband signals, wherein the transport circuitry includes: transport channel processors configured for performing decimation, filtering, and signal gain changes on the channelized digital baseband signals; and a transport device including the transport schedule unit and a baseband signal extractor, the baseband signal extractor being configured for extracting received channelized digital baseband signals from a transport physical interface device.