Systems and methods for distribution of a wireless network access

Systems and methods for distribution of wireless network access using a common media access control (MAC) architecture. In one embodiment, a platform architecture may be provived for high speed Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) services termination using a common MAC arcitecture and router functionality, e.g., an integrated router and firewall service may be provided to a local WLAN network, leveraging a common orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based MAC architecture for both the BWA and WLAN functionality. Such a common MAC arcitecture may be implemented to optimize the performance and throughput between the broadband wireless ISP data service and localizes WLAN network. An additional network layer is provided between the first and second network protocols to facilitate or modify characteristics of communication between the networks. The communication between the plurqal wireless networks amy itself be wireless.