SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING INTELLIGENT WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEMS

Systems and methods for providing intelligent wireless access systems are presented. A microcell cellular architecture is provided in which a digital switch and controller are provided in conjunction with a number of intelligent radio ports. Each of the intelligent radio ports provides at least one voice channel to both the microcell and to the traditional wireless macrocell. Calls placed within the microcell, however, do not access the traditional public macrocell. This architecture enables the microcell to be easily integrated into an existing wire-based system such that calls placed to the wire-based system are simultaneously forwarded to a cell phone (thereby ringing at both phones using a single phone number). If the call is answered by the cell phone within the confines of the microcell (i.e., via an intelligent radio port rather than a conventional wireless base station), the call is handled as a wire-based call and the type of phone used to answer the call is transparent to the caller.