BACKGROUND

Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) are used to distribute wireless signal coverage into building or other substantially closed environments. For example, a DAS may distribute antennas within a building. The antennas are typically connected to a radio frequency (RF) signal source, such as a service provider. Various methods of transporting the RF signal from the RF signal source to the antenna have been implemented in the art.

SUMMARY

A serial link interface unit includes a plurality of serialized data stream interfaces, each of the plurality of serialized data stream interfaces configured to receive a different serialized data stream having a data rate and a set of timeslots; an aggregate serialized data stream interface configured to communicate an aggregate serialized data stream having an aggregate data rate and a plurality of aggregate timeslot sets, each set of the plurality of aggregate timeslot sets coming sequentially in time, wherein a second aggregate timeslot set of the plurality of aggregate timeslot sets comes after a first aggregate timeslot set of the plurality of aggregate timeslot sets; and wherein the serial link interface unit is configured to interleave data from the different serialized data streams received at the plurality of first interfaces by being configured to map data from a first timeslot from the set of timeslots for each different serialized data stream to the first aggregate timeslot set of the plurality of aggregate timeslot sets in the aggregate serialized data stream and being configured to map data from a second timeslot from the set of timeslots for each different serialized data stream to the second aggregate timeslot set of the plurality of aggregate timeslot sets in the aggregate serialized data stream.

