System for communicating digital cellular data between a cell site and a switching system or another cell site

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A system and method for delivering packetized data representing radio signals to and from cell sites, and to and from a destination point via a fast packet, network. Each cell site includes an interface for packetizing the radio signals and, transmitting the packetized data to its destination. The destination could be a, delivery point at a switch connected to the telephone network which then , converts, the packetized data into a form usable by the telephone network. Alternatively, the, destination point could be another cell site which then depacketizes the , radio signal and retransmits the radio signal to another wireless communication device without, connecting to the telephone …