Level 3 Communications, LLC

Dena M Hunter

Christopher W Mikleton

Wayne F Simpkins

According to various embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for routing telephone calls from host switch to remote switch in a Voice Over Internet Protocol ('VoIP') network. In one embodiment, a system includes a host switch in a voice over internet protocol ('VoIP') network communicably coupled with a plurality of remote switches and a public switched telephone network (&#x201c;PSTN&#x201d;), the host switch to receive a call from the PSTN having signaling including a location routing number (&#x201c;LRN&#x201d;) field, and a database communicably coupled to the host switch to identify a target remote switch of the plurality of remote switches that is associated with at least a portion of the LRN field. In addition, the host switch is to send the call to the target remote switch based on the identification by the database. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

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According to various embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for routing telephone calls from host switch to remote switch in a Voice Over Internet Protocol ('VoIP') network. A host switch in the VoIP network may be communicably coupled with a plurality of remote switches and with a public switched telephone network ('PSTN'); the host switch may receive a call from PSTN having signaling that includes a called party number field and/or a location routing number field. Based on the called party number field and/or the location routing number field, host switch identifies a target remote switch from among the plurality of remote switches that is associated with the called party number field by, for example, querying a database of associations between location routing numbers and/or telephone numbers and remote switches. Host switch then sends the call to identified target remote switch.

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Westminster, CO, United States of America

Dena M Hunter