Patent ID: 8379636

Claim:
A method for establishing M3UA linksets and routes, the method comprising: generating, at a signaling gateway, a linkset that comprises a plurality of M3UA links between (i) two or more IP hosts on the signaling gateway and (ii) a single IP host on a signal transfer point; configuring, at the signaling gateway, a route based on the linkset to direct messages from the signaling gateway to a single destination node; directing messages from the signaling gateway to the single destination node using a directly-connected M3UA link of the linkset, wherein the directly-connected M3UA link connects a first IP host of the two or more IP hosts on the signaling gateway with the single IP host on the signal transfer point; and directing the messages to the single destination node using an indirectly-connected M3UA link of the plurality of M3UA links in response to the directly-connected M3UA link being unavailable, wherein the indirectly-connected M3UA link connects a second IP host of the two or more IP hosts on the signaling gateway with the single IP host on the signal transfer point.