Systems and methods for transporting digital rf signals

The communication device of claim 1, wherein the digital downlink signals are received from one or more telecommunication network operators.

The communication device of claim 1, wherein the first frame contains more information as compared to a second frame containing the digital downlink signals, wherein the second frame is a same size as the first frame.

The communication device of claim 1, wherein the resample rates include a first resample rate and a second resample rate that is at a different rate than the first resample rate.

The communication device of claim 1, wherein the first frame is an Ethernet frame comprising a preamble, a start frame delimiter, a destination address, a source address, length or type, MAC client data, packet assembler/dissembler, a frame check sequence, and an extension.

The communication device of claim 1, wherein the at least one factor includes a bandwidth owned by a telecommunication network operator that is a source of the downlink radio frequency signals.

The communication device of claim 1, wherein the at least one factor includes the bandwidth of a communication medium between the communication device and the one or more remotely located communication devices.

The communication device of claim 1, wherein the at least one factor includes the bandwidth of the downlink radio frequency signals.

A communication device for use within a communication system, the communication device comprising:

• de-framing circuitry configured to extract re-sampled digital uplink signals from a first frame that includes the re-sampled digital uplink signals as framed data received from one or more remotely located communication devices of the communication system, wherein the one or more remotely located communication devices of the communication system are configured to receive radio frequency signals using at least one antenna, to generate the framed data of the first frame based on the radio frequency signals, and to transmit the first frame to the communication device;
• re-sampling circuitry configured to output digital uplink signals by re-sampling the re-sampled digital uplink signals from resample rates to a sample rate based on at least one factor, the re-sampled digital uplink signals having a smaller bandwidth than the digital uplink signals.