The present invention relates to a system and method for generating a first clock frequency for a plurality of digital data bursts compressed in time, where each of the plurality of digital data bursts has been multiplexed into one of a plurality of data blocks of higher speed digital data. The system and method includes acquiring the width in data elements of a digital data burst and the width in data elements of a data block of higher speed digital data. The width of one period of a clock pulse is computed at the first clock frequency. A clock pulse is generated at the first clock frequency.