Patent ID: 8548330

Claim:
An apparatus configured to distribute radio bands in one or more sectors among a plurality of sectors in a distributed antenna system, comprising: a plurality of radio interfaces each configured to: split a received downlink electrical radio frequency (RF) communications signal into a plurality of downlink electrical RF communications signals; and control providing each of the split plurality of downlink electrical RF communications signals to one or more sectors among a plurality of sectors in a distributed antenna system configured for the radio interface; and a plurality of optical interfaces each configured to: receive the split plurality of downlink electrical RF communications signals from the plurality of radio interfaces; control for which sectors among the plurality of sectors configured for the optical interface, the received split plurality of downlink electrical RF communications signals are provided to one or more remote antenna units (RAUs) communicatively coupled to the optical interface; and convert the received split plurality of downlink electrical RF communications signals into a plurality of downlink optical RF communications signals, wherein the plurality of optical interfaces are each further configured to: split a received uplink optical RF communications signal into a plurality of uplink optical RF communications signals; control providing each of the split plurality of uplink optical RF communications signals to the one or more sectors among a plurality of sectors configured for the optical interface; and convert the received split plurality of uplink optical RF communications signals into a plurality of uplink electrical RF communications signals; and the plurality of radio interfaces are each further configured to: receive the plurality of uplink electrical RF communications signals from the plurality of optical interfaces; and control for which sectors among the plurality of sectors configured for the radio interface the received plurality of uplink electrical RF communications signals are provided to one or more carriers communicatively coupled to the radio interface.