Particular embodiments provide an access gateway that facilitates
communication between a plurality of access technologies. The access
gateway facilitates data communication with an access terminal through a
bearer path. A radio resource manager is configured to provide radio
resource management functions for the communications. The radio resource
manager is decoupled from the bearer path and provides control of radio
transmission characteristics for the bearer path to the gateway. Because
the radio resource manager is not in the bearer path, the access gateway
may be access technology agnostic. Thus, the access gateway does not need
to have access-specific modules based on the radio technology for each
bearer path.