Patent ID: 7650112

Claim:
A system for enabling a plurality of wireless communication terminals present in a local area to communicate with a network outside the local area, the system comprising: a plurality of sub-stations for forming respective wireless communication areas individually in the local area, and performing wireless communication with the wireless communication terminals in the respective corresponding wireless communication areas; a main station connected to each of the plurality of sub-stations via an optical fiber transmission path; and a plurality of access points, connected to the main station via a wireless transmission path, for converting signals to be input from an outside of the local area to an inside of the local area to a signal form for use in the local area, and converting signals to be output from the inside of the local area to the outside of the local area to a signal form for use in the outside of the local area, wherein the main station comprises: a managing section operable to determine one of the plurality of access points to which a first one of the wireless communication terminals is accessible; and a selecting section operable to select and output one of the signals to be input from the outside of the local area, whose form is converted in the one of the plurality of access points determined by the managing section, and which is input to the local area, to the first wireless communication terminal via a corresponding one of the sub-stations.