Bridging enterprise advanced communication systems through the public Internet

摘要

The invention relates to a method for transmitting end-to-end signalling between communication nodes (1.COM,2.COM) separated by a network (C). The method comprises the following steps: negotiating a connection (4) between both nodes (1.COM,2.COM) via the network (C), the connection (4) being allocated dedicated ports and addresses; setting up a separate connection between both nodes using the above allocated ports and addresses to transmit media related data stream (5,6,7), using said separate connection to transmit end-to-end signalling codes (7). The invention also relates to a computer readable medium comprising code to be executed on a communication node. The invention has the advantage that provisioning effort on the network is minimized. This is especially true for the edge and border equipments of the network that the end-to-end signalling, which may be specific to the communication nodes, has to traverse.