System, method, and base station using different security protocols on wired and wireless portions of network

A method for providing quality of service (QoS) aware, wireless point to multi-point telecommunications in a telecommunications system. The telecommunications system includes: a wireless base station coupled to a first data network; one or more host workstations coupled to the first data network; one or more subscriber customer premise equipment (CPE) stations in wireless communications with the wireless base station over a shared bandwidth using a packet-centric protocol; one or more subscriber workstations coupled to each of the subscriber CPE stations over a second network. The method includes allocating shared bandwidth among the subscriber CPE stations in a manner to optimize end-user QoS. The method includes analyzing and scheduling IP flows over the shared wireless bandwidth. This includes identifying the IP flows; characterizing the IP flows; classifying the IP flows; and prioritizing the IP flows.