Common predictions show that by 2015 the traffic traversing the access segment (both wireless and wired) will be 25-30 times larger than today. Extrapolating this trend to 2020 would yield a thousand-fold increase in traffic. Meeting this demand, with today’s wireless and fixed broadband access network solutions, require new system architectures taking into account several factors such as power consumption, operationnal costs, availability of backhauling/spectrum, etc. French ICTcluster Systematic Paris Region (http://www.systematic-paris-r