Patent ID: 7583662

Claim:
A voice network comprising: a voice virtual private network (VPN) comprising at least one server for providing corporate voice services within the voice VPN; an access network external to the voice VPN; at least one user terminal external to the voice VPN and coupled to the access network; and at least one voice VPN gateway coupled to the voice VPN and the access network, wherein the voice VPN gateway comprises: a voice VPN activator for receiving a request to access the corporate voice services, a voice VPN signaling mediator for, in response to the request to access the corporate voice services, sending a request to a voice VPN session mediator to reserve a corporate side voice session resource for establishing a corporate side voice session, to reserve a user side voice session resource for establishing the user side voice session, and to reserve a resource for mediating between the user side voice session and the corporate side voice session, and the voice VPN session mediator for, in response to the request from the voice VPN signaling mediator, establishing the corporate side voice session with the server using the corporate side voice session resource, establishing the user side voice session with the user terminal using the user side voice session resource, and mediating communications between the user side voice session and the corporate side voice session using the resource for mediating, wherein the server provides the corporate voice services to the user terminal via the voice VPN gateway as if the user terminal is accessing the corporate voice services from within the voice VPN.