Patent ID: 8537852

Claim:
A method for data transmission comprising: providing a sending and receiving node coupled by a plurality of bearer channels, said sending node including an inverse multiplexer and said receiving node including an inverse demultiplexer; supplying a high bit rate signal to the inverse multiplexer at said sending node; selecting a subset of lower bit rate bearer channels having a predetermined channel spacing from among a plurality of bearer channels, and wherein the selection is made so as to minimize differences in transmission parameters among the bearer channels chosen for the subset; clocking bits from the high bit rate signal serially into a plurality of registers wherein the clocking is performed synchronously with a bit rate of the high bit rate signal supplied to the inverse multiplexer at the sending mode; distributing said high bit rate signal into the subset of lower bit rate bearer channels; managing performance characteristics of the subset of lower bit rate bearer channels based on a worst performing one of said subset of lower bit rate bearer channels; receiving, at the inverse demultiplexer, the subset of said plurality of lower bit rate bearer channels; and restoring the data from the subset of said plurality of lower bit rate bearer channels to the high bit rate signal.