Distributed base station test bus architecture in a wireless network

A distributed base station comprising:

• a baseband unit comprising one or more fiber interface units, clocking cards, channel cards, and controller cards, wherein the said fiber interface units, clocking cards and channel cards are communicatively coupled to a test bus and system bus;
• and
• a radio frequency unit remotely located from and communicatively coupled to the baseband unit comprising a radio card and a fiber interface adaptor;
• wherein each of the one or more fiber interface units, clocking cards, channel cards, controller cards, fiber interface adaptor, and radio card is addressed by an identifier comprising the combination of a slot code and a board-type code, and the one or more fiber interface units, fiber interface adaptor and the radio card have the same slot code.