Patent ID: 8228944

Claim:
A communication system adapted for linking a communication network to a customer facility, the communication system comprising: the communication network; a network-side Unbundled Network Element (UNE) interface connected to the communication network; a first wireless transceiver adapted to communicate with at least a second wireless transceiver at the customer facility, the first wireless transceiver comprising at least one of a dish antenna, a radio transceiver, a microwave transceiver, and an optical transceiver capable of transmitting Personal Communication System (PCS) data; a customer-side UNE interface connected to the first wireless transceiver by one or more of a single mode fiber (SMF) and a category (CAT) 5 cable; and a plurality of UNEs extending between the network-side UNE interface and the customer-side UNE interface; wherein a communication session between the communication network and the customer facility can be established by selecting and bonding one or more UNEs from the plurality of UNEs to form one or more bonded UNEs and exchanging communications between the communication network and the first wireless transceiver over the one or more bonded UNEs; wherein the selecting and bonding provide bandwidth-on-demand between the network-side UNE interface and the customer-side UNE interface when the communication session is established and the one or more bonded UNEs are selected to substantially match a bandwidth of the first wireless transceiver.