Patent ID: 7486662

Claim:
A method of transmitting telecommunications traffic between packet-switched networks and circuit-switched networks, comprising steps of: a. assigning an identifier to a packet-switched network; b. receiving, by a network switch, telecommunications traffic from a circuit-switched network; c. selecting, by the network switch using a switch routing table, a packet-switched network for receiving the telecommunications traffic; d. associating, by the network switch, the telecommunications traffic with the assigned identifier; e. receiving, by a VoIP platform, the telecommunications traffic with the assigned identifier; f. retrieving, by the VoIP platform from a VoIP platform routing table that utilizes the assigned identifier, destination IP information for the selected packet-switched network; g. converting, by the VoIP platform, the telecommunications traffic into a format compatible with the selected packet-switched network; and h. transmitting, by the VoIP platform, the converted telecommunications traffic to the selected packet-switched network.