packetization platforms described herein therefore the packetization platform 500 may be described in the context of the system 100 the packetization platform 500 may have an input port 504 a pre processing module 508 an ip packetization module 512 and an output port 516 similar to like named elements of packetization platform 200 however in this embodiment the packetization platform 500 may include an additional output port 520 coupled to the pre processing module 508 and an additional input port 524 coupled to the ip packetization module 512 in this embodiment the output port 520 may be coupled to the input port 524 by an external link e g a cable 528 in another embodiment the output port 520 may be coupled to the input port 524 by an internal link e g a trace in an embodiment one or more of the ports of the packetization platform 500 may be provided by a serial interface card in various embodiments the serial interface card may be a removable peripheral component in various embodiments one or more of the aforementioned ports may be directly integrated within the packetization platform 500 e g such that it is not a removable peripheral component in various embodiments other ports may be embodied in removable interface cards this embodiment may facilitate dynamic configuration of the packetization platform 500 fig6.