Abstract: A telecommunications system and method is disclosed in which a high-availability intelligent node maintains the synchronization of data between various nodes by utilizing both an index manager to administer and manage indices associated with the location of stored data and a data transfer function (DTF) to manage persistent dynamic data updates between nodes. For data updates, a DTF batch transfer function, receives, from the index manager, the data update information and stores the entry in a buffer, which is then forwarded to a DTF batch transfer function residing on another (standby) node. The DTF batch transfer function residing on the non-master node receives the message buffer from the master DTF batch transfer function and stores the values in the indexed memory location specified for that entry. In addition, at startup or reinitialization of the nodes, a DTF bulk transfer function on both the master and standby nodes can be used to achieve synchronization of data.