Digital baseband transport in telecommunications distribution systems

A head end unit of a distributed antenna system, the head end unit comprising circuitry configured to:

• receive uplink packetized baseband signals from remotely located units;
• extract uplink channelized digital baseband signals from the uplink packetized baseband signals;
• process the uplink channelized digital baseband signals into uplink signals by at least one of channel filtering, interpolating, and mixing the uplink channelized digital baseband signals including call information for wireless communication;
• and
• communicate at least one of the uplink signals and a summation of the uplink signals from the head end unit to at least one base station.

A distributed antenna system, comprising:

• a head end unit;
• and
• at least two remote units communicatively coupled to the head end unit and configured to communicate channelized digital baseband signals to the head end unit;
• wherein the distributed antenna system is configured to:
• extract the channelized digital baseband signals received from the at least two remote units;
• format the channelized digital baseband signals for transport together;
• packetize and packet schedule the channelized digital baseband signals;
• and
• process the channelized digital baseband signals by at least one of channel filtering, interpolating, and mixing.