Patent ID: 7831250

Claim:
An integrated fixed and mobile communications system, the system comprising: at least one router/switch located proximate to a vehicular/pedestrian traffic-way, configured to receive data from and send data to a metropolitan area network (MAN) and configured to control a flow of the data to and from at least one premises located along the traffic-way and configured to control a flow of the data to and from at least one wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) controller/switch; wherein the at least one WMAN controller/switch is located proximate to the router/switch and configured to control the flow of information between the router/switch and at least one wireless access point (WAP) and configured to coordinate a transition of mobile device communications from at least a first WAP to a second WAP; wherein the at least one premises is connected to the router/switch by a multi-conductor cable and a drop cable, if a subscriber; and wherein the integrated fixed and mobile communications system is proximate to the vehicular/pedestrian traffic-way, utilized with a very high speed and capacity fiber-to-the-premises/curb/neighborhood (FttX) packet data-only network to enable communications between a plurality of mobile devices and the FttX network, and configured to provide a plurality of data containing video, audio, voice communications, broadcast radio programming, and data.