Patent ID: 7539158

Claim:
A communications system comprising: a first distributed mobile architecture server, comprising: a first computer readable medium; a first mobile switching center module embedded in the first computer readable medium, wherein the first mobile switching center module includes a first authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) module, the first AAA module configured to support generation of first call detail records at the first distributed mobile architecture server; and a first base station controller module embedded in the first computer readable medium; wherein the first distributed mobile architecture server is in direct physical connection with a first wireless transceiver; and a second distributed mobile architecture server, comprising: a second computer readable medium; a second mobile switching center module embedded in the second computer readable medium, wherein the second mobile switching center module includes a second AAA module, the second AAA module configured to support generation of second call detail records at the second distributed mobile architecture server; and a second base station controller module embedded in the second computer readable medium; wherein the second distributed mobile architecture server is in direct physical connection with a second wireless transceiver; wherein telephony traffic received at the first wireless transceiver of the first distributed mobile architecture server is transmitted from the first distributed mobile architecture server to the second distributed mobile architecture server via a peer-to-peer connection.