Patent ID: 7372828

Claim:
A method for servicing wireless packetized voice communications by a wired Local Area Network (wired LAN) and a plurality of Wireless Access Points (WAPs) coupled to a wired network infrastructure of the wired LAN, the method comprising: wirelessly servicing, by at least one WAP of the plurality of WAPs and a multi-layer switch of the wired network infrastructure, packetized voice communications for at least one wireless terminal; monitoring, by the multi-layer switch, a plurality of packetized communications serviced by the premises based network; determining that a packetized communication of the plurality of packetized communications monitored by the multi-layer switch is a packetized voice communication; determining that the packetized voice communication is wirelessly serviced by at least one of the plurality of WAPs; identifying a servicing WAP of the plurality of WAPs that wirelessly services the packetized voice communication of the plurality of packetized communications; and directing the servicing WAP of the plurality of WAPs to provide sufficient wireless bandwidth to a wireless terminal corresponding to the packetized voice communication.