Abstract: A home or business-based local area network (LAN) architecture and system has an internal LAN that combines the distribution of two or more independently sourced classes of services, such as multimedia and data or telephone or access control, to multiple users within a single building, such as a house, hotel, multiple family dwelling or business/office building. A primary data service and a secondary service which may comprise analog or digital telephone service or access control is converted to a radio frequency that is then combined with multimedia entertainment services into a single local cable television network, carrying data, and analog and digitally encoded multimedia signals and telephone service. Terminals or devices connect to the LAN by means of a wall plate which performs the necessary interfacing between a terminal and the LAN, by separating the multimedia and LAN data services and telephone by means of a radio unit which is integrated into the wall plate.