Patent ID: 7483414

Claim:
A method for forwarding modem signals through a transport network from an originating modem to a destination point comprising: at an originating gateway communicating with a Modem Relay Aggregator (MRA) that is located at a point in an Internet Protocol (IP) network that is remote from the originating gateway: receiving modem telephony signals from a circuit switched telephony network; removing modem telephony protocol information from the modem telephony signals; encapsulating resulting data in a transport protocol packet for use by the MRA to terminate a modem relay session; forwarding the encapsulated packets over a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) packet switched data network connection in the IP Network; at the MRA located at a point in the IP network that is remote from the originating gateway: terminating a modem relay session using the encapsulated data in the transport protocol packet; and forwarding resulting data packets through a packet data network gateway to the destination point.