1. A method for operating a burst mode communication device, the method comprising: receiving initial data of a stream of information at a burst receiver of the burst mode communication device; sampling the stream of information a plurality of times per unit interval to provide a plurality of sample intervals; associating a phase angle with each of the sample intervals; integrating transition information for each sample interval; selecting a sampling phase to sample each symbol of the stream of data using the integrated transition information; and wherein the selecting includes individually multiplying the integrated transition information for each of the plurality of sample intervals by the phase angle associated with the sample interval to provide a transition vector for each of the sample intervals.