Patent ID: 8351326

Claim:
A system comprising: a first mobile telephone switching office subsystem and a second mobile telephone switching office subsystem configured to receive and forward network traffic; a hub router communicatively connected to said first and second mobile telephone switching office subsystems and to a plurality of mobile telephone cell site subsystems via at least one network backhaul connection, said hub router communicatively disposed between each of said first and second mobile telephone switching office subsystems and said plurality of mobile telephone cell site subsystems, said hub router configured to establish at least one communication tunnel from said hub router to said first mobile telephone switching office subsystem, establish at least one backup communication tunnel from said hub router to said second mobile telephone switching office subsystem, detect at least one traffic forwarding failure associated with said at least one communication tunnel, and redirect network backhaul traffic directed to said first mobile telephone switching office subsystem via said at least one communication tunnel to said second mobile telephone switching office subsystem via said at least one backup communication tunnel in response to said at least one traffic forwarding failure.