Patent ID: 8897309

Claim:
A telecommunication system for controlling media gateways in a telecommunication network, said system comprising: a plurality of media gateway proxies connectible to a plurality of media gateway controllers, so as to create pairs, where each of the pairs comprises a media gateway proxy and an associated media gateway controller connectible together by a media gateway controller interface, each media gateway proxy in the telecommunication network receiving signaling messages from the media gateway proxy's associated media gateway controller; a media gateway control module having a separate internal interface for each of the plurality of media gateway proxies and a media gateway control layer interface for a telecommunications node which is coupled with the media gateway control module through at least one media gateway; wherein the media gateway proxies are configured to extract media gateway control orders in the signaling messages received from the media gateway controller and to send the control orders to the media gateway control module; wherein the media gateway control module is configured to: aggregate the media gateway control orders received from at least two of the media gateway proxies; calculate an optimal path for a payload connection based on the aggregated media gateway control orders and network resources known to the media gateway control module; and order establishment of the payload connection in the media gateway by sending media gateway control signaling messages to the media gateway on the media gateway control layer interface.