Patent ID: 8223774

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a converter for changing network data into asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) data for cellular transmission as a digital subscriber line signal and for reconstructing network data from a cellular reception of a digital subscriber line signal; and a transceiver for transmitting the asynchronous transfer data from the converter as the digital subscriber line signal and receiving data from the cellular network for reconstruction into network data by the converter, wherein the converter includes an asynchronous transfer mode segmentation and reassembly (ATM SAR) module for segmenting and reassembling data frames and for bidirectionally communicating a digital signal between a packet network and an ATM network; and the transceiver is a transmitter for processing and transmitting the data signal, and for receiving at least one signal from the ATM SAR module, the transmitter being configured for transmitting ATM cells at a variable rate, the transmitter module having a coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (COFDM) encoder module for encoding and multiplexing at least one ATM cell on a plurality of data channels.