Region-based redirection and bridging of calls

An apparatus including a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by computing processor circuitry, cause the following to be carried out:

• communicating data, via the computing processor circuitry and an assigned mapping through which a first set of one or more respective IP addresses is associated with a second set of one or more respective IP addresses, between different networks for network-address-translation (NAT) for endpoints in geographic regions for which the assigned mapping includes identification of a local line having an identifier among the second set of one or more respective IP addresses, each of the endpoints including communications circuitry to enable a user to communicate via the different networks;
• in response to a received data packet associated with a first IP address of the first set of one or more respective IP addresses and in response to an endpoint associated with the first IP address indicating that the local line should be accessed, causing a call associated with the received data packet to be redirected and passing at least a subset of the received data packet for connecting over the local line;
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• causing, in response to the endpoint associated with the first IP address indicating a second IP address of the first set of one or more respective IP addresses and via another identifier among the second set of one or more respective IP addresses, a call associated with the received data packet to be bridged for communications between the endpoint associated with the first IP address and an endpoint associated with the second IP address of the first set of respective IP addresses.

A method comprising:

• communicating data, via computing processor circuitry and an assigned mapping through which a first set of one or more respective IP addresses is associated with a second set of one or more respective IP addresses, between different networks for network-address-translation (NAT) for endpoints in geographic regions for which the assigned mapping includes identification of a local line having an identifier among the second set of one or more respective IP addresses, each of the endpoints including communications circuitry to enable a user to communicate via the different networks;
• in response to a received data packet associated with a first IP address of the first set of one or more respective IP addresses and in response to an endpoint associated with the first IP address indicating that the local line should be accessed, causing a call associated with the received data packet to be redirected and passing at least a subset of the received data packet for connecting over the local line;
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• causing, in response to the endpoint associated with the first IP address indicating a second IP address of the first set of one or more respective IP addresses and via another identifier among the second set of one or more respective IP addresses, a call associated with the received data packet to be bridged for communications between the endpoint associated with the first IP address and an endpoint associated with the second IP address of the first set of one or more respective IP addresses.