Patent ID: 8184528

Claim:
A system comprising: a mobile telephone switching office subsystem having a first aggregation router and a second aggregation router; and a mobile telephone cell site router communicatively connected to said mobile telephone switching office subsystem via a network backhaul connection, said cell site router configured to establish at least one communication tunnel from said cell site router to said first aggregation router over said network backhaul connection, establish at least one backup communication tunnel from said cell site router to said second aggregation router over said network backhaul connection, wherein said at least one backup communication tunnel is pre-signaled as a backup to said at least one communication tunnel, detect at least one traffic forwarding failure associated with said at least one communication tunnel, and redirect network backhaul traffic directed to said first aggregation router via said at least one communication tunnel to said second aggregation router via said at least one backup communication tunnel in response to said at least one traffic forwarding failure.