A method for a dynamic context router (706; 850; 920; 2501) to communicate signaling information in a telecommunications signaling network, comprising: receiving, a topology tree, wherein the topology tree is a logical data structure that categorizes components within the telecommunications signaling network into hierarchical levels (1202, 1204, 1206) and the topology tree includes one or more domains (1208, 1210) defined according to business rules as root nodes, at least one peer-group as an internal node for each of the one or more domains, and at least one peer as a terminal node for the at least one peer-group; receiving, a first message encoding signaling information from a source component; decoding the received first message into an internal representation of the message, the internal representation comprising a message structure that stores information corresponding to information in the first message in one or more structured fields; performing application level routing operations based on business rule operations using contextual information derived from the internal representation to identify a root node (1208,1210) in the topology tree, wherein said contextual information includes information from the structured fields and the business rule operations are defined by configuration in the dynamic context router (706; 850; 920; 2501); identifying a terminal node destination component using the identified root node (1208, 1210) and the hierarchical levels of the topology tree by traversing the hierarchical levels of the topology tree from the identified root node (1208, 1210) to identify said terminal node destination component wherein identifying the terminal node destination component comprises: identifying and selecting internal nodes by performing availability operations, wherein the topology tree defines the internal nodes available to the dynamic context router (706; 850; 920; 2501); and identifying and selecting the terminal node destination component based on load balancing requirements between the peers of the peer-group of the selected internal node; encoding the signaling information contained in the internal representation into a second message; and sending the second message to the identified terminal node destination component. receiving, a topology tree, wherein the topology tree is a logical data structure that categorizes components within the telecommunications signaling network into hierarchical levels (1202, 1204, 1206) and the topology tree includes one or more domains (1208, 1210) defined according to business rules as root nodes, at least one peer-group as an internal node for each of the one or more domains, and at least one peer as a terminal node for the at least one peer-group; receiving, a first message encoding signaling information from a source component; decoding the received first message into an internal representation of the message, the internal representation comprising a message structure that stores information corresponding to information in the first message in one or more structured fields; performing application level routing operations based on business rule operations using contextual information derived from the internal representation to identify a root node (1208,1210) in the topology tree, wherein said contextual information includes information from the structured fields and the business rule operations are defined by configuration in the dynamic context router (706; 850; 920; 2501); identifying a terminal node destination component using the identified root node (1208, 1210) and the hierarchical levels of the topology tree by traversing the hierarchical levels of the topology tree from the identified root node (1208, 1210) to identify said terminal node destination component wherein identifying the terminal node destination component comprises: identifying and selecting internal nodes by performing availability operations, wherein the topology tree defines the internal nodes available to the dynamic context router (706; 850; 920; 2501); and identifying and selecting the terminal node destination component based on load balancing requirements between the peers of the peer-group of the selected internal node; identifying and selecting internal nodes by performing availability operations, wherein the topology tree defines the internal nodes available to the dynamic context router (706; 850; 920; 2501); and identifying and selecting the terminal node destination component based on load balancing requirements between the peers of the peer-group of the selected internal node; encoding the signaling information contained in the internal representation into a second message; and sending the second message to the identified terminal node destination component.