Method of intercepting VOIP communications

A method of intercepting voice over internet protocol communications, comprising:

• detecting whether a subscriber-caller to be monitored goes off-hook;
• intercepting the subscriber-caller when off-hook, in response to the intercept being requested by a subscriber-agent and lawful intercept being authorized;
• and
• determining authorization to intercept by an authorization field in a configuration server, the authorization field including:
• an agent of record field, an agent IP address field and an agent port field;
• notifying the subscriber-agent that a wiretap is to begin in response to the subscriber-caller going off-hook;
• and
• sending substantially all communications between the subscriber-caller and a subscriber-callee, to a subscriber-agent, in response to the authorization being determined.