Patent ID: 7573862

Claim:
A wireless communication system, the system comprising: a plurality of Remote Radio Units (RRUs), each including a packet transceiver module, each transceiver module located at one of a plurality of cell sites in said wireless communication system, each of said transceiver modules communicatively coupled to a hub via a first transport communication medium, said first transport communication medium transporting information in form of packetized bit streams, said transceiver modules being configured to receive RF radio signals over a wireless link and process the received RF signals to produce packetized demodulated bit streams for transmission over the transport communication medium; the hub including: at least one traffic consolidator unit (TCU) configured to receive the packetized demodulated bit streams transmitted by the packet transceiver systems via the first transport communication medium and process the received digital packetized demodulated bit streams to reproduce the RF radio signals transmitted over said wireless link; and a base transceiver station (BTS) communicatively coupled to a second transceiver module and configured to process the reproduced RF radio signal to produce a corresponding T1/E1 signal on said second transceiver module; a mobile switching office (MSO) in communication with the hub via a second transport communication medium and configured to receive and process the T1/E1 signal to produce a channelized circuit-switched T1/E1 signal; wherein the traffic consolidator unit includes an application server shelf configured to support a plurality of customized software applications, including a continuous network optimization (CNO) application for continuously monitoring network performance as represented by a plurality of network parameters related to RF capacity for automatically providing sufficient bandwidth and determining what level of baseband resources are required; determining if an increase/decrease in RF activity has occurred based on said monitored parameters; and automatically adjusting the bandwidth between one of the following sites, Cellsite and hub, Hub to MSO, hub to hub or MSO to MSO; and a network re-routing application to automate spectrum and network optimization processes based on commands from said CNO.