Patent ID: 8532679

Claim:
A broadband residential gateway, comprising: a first network device configured to communicate with a wired data network device of a wired data network; a second network device configured to provide a communications link to a wired network device of a local wired network; a broadband gateway wireless access point device configured to provide wireless access to the wired data network device via a first wireless connection connected to a voice service; a broadband interface device configured to process voice information communicated via the voice service; and a router configured to route the voice service to a wireless access point device and communicatively coupled to the broadband interface device, wherein the wireless access point device is configured to provide wireless access to the wired data network over the first wireless connection, wherein the broadband residential gateway is communicatively coupled to a digital cordless handset configured to communicate with the wireless access point device via the first wireless connection, and wherein the digital cordless handset is assigned a same telephone number as another handset.