Method and apparatus for transmission of and receiving signals having digital information using an air link

An apparatus for controlling the transfer of digital information carried through an air link, comprising:

• circuitry contained in a housing for receiving and transmitting signals carried through an air link;
• a plurality of peripheral devices, each of said peripheral devices for receiving and/or outputting information and at least some of said plurality of peripheral devices, including a first peripheral device, for inputting and/or outputting digital information;
• a peripheral device controller communicating with each of said plurality of peripheral devices, said peripheral device controller receiving digital information from said circuitry and determining an identity of said first peripheral device for receiving said digital information, said peripheral device controller including processing means and in which said digital information to be received by said first peripheral device is first received by and outputted from said peripheral device controller;
• first means for interconnecting said circuitry with said peripheral device controller;
• and
• second means for interconnecting said peripheral device controller and each of said plurality of peripheral devices, said second means including a signal conducting common bus that each of said peripheral devices communicates with, said common bus being located externally of said circuitry housing, each of said plurality of peripheral devices having an address and each of said peripheral devices communicable with each of all of the other of said plurality of peripheral devices and said peripheral device controller being addressable by each of said plurality of peripheral devices, wherein digital information is able to be transferred, free of control by said peripheral device controller processor, between each of said plurality of peripheral devices including between said first peripheral device and a second peripheral device and is also able to be transferred from said peripheral device controller to each of said plurality of peripheral devices.