Abstract: Mechanisms and methodologies are provided that enable marketing, advertising and customer relations management campaign implementation that includes a combination advertising, marketing and direct marketing strategies implemented via a combination of communications via Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and other communication networks in a manner that establishes a long-term, engaging relationship between a customer or consumer and a promotion company or advertiser.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for implementing voice transmission using a subscriber line of a public switched telephone network in a system having a concentrator network part connected to the subscriber line for connecting a plurality of subscriber lines to a data transmission network. The concentrator network part includes voice traffic processing equipment, which are arranged to perform a conversion between analog voice signals of the subscriber lines and IP voice packets. It further includes transceiver and multiplexing equipment for transmitting and receiving data transferred over analog subscriber lines, and packet traffic switching equipment, which are arranged to receive and transmit packets between the voice traffic processing equipment and a core network and between the transceiver and multiplexing equipment and a core network.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a telecommunications node (60) that is able to handle IP-traffic and to terminate telecommunications traffic. The node includes a forwarding functionality with a number of forwarding engines (65). The node includes means for creating internal IP-hosts (61) for terminating IP-traffic within the node (60), each of which IP-host is attached to an IP-port (83) of a forwarding engine (65). The IP-hosts are each assigned an individual IP-address, which makes it possible to forward IP-traffic to the IP-hosts (61) by means of using the IP-address as a destination address for the IP-traffic. Information relating to the IP-addresses of the internal IP-hosts (61) is included in forwarding tables of the forwarding engines (65). It is possible to perform load distribution of terminating IP-traffic based on the IP-addresses of the internal IP-hosts.