Facilitating early media in a communications system

A Session Initiation Protocol intermediate node arranged to send information to a first Session Initiation Protocol terminal, the intermediate node comprising:

• a micro-processor;
• and
• a memory that stores processor-executable instructions wherein the micro-processor interfaces with the memory and executes the processor-executable instructions to perform the following operations:
• upon receipt of a session initiation request at the Session Initiation Protocol intermediate node, establishing a first Session Initiation Protocol dialog between the Session Initiation Protocol intermediate node and the first Session Initiation Protocol terminal;
• sending information from the Session Initiation Protocol intermediate node to the first Session Protocol terminal over said first dialog;
• and
• establishing a second Session Initiation Protocol dialog, between the first and a second Session Initiation Protocol terminals before, during, or after establishment of said first dialog,
• wherein the first and second dialogs are distinguished by different To header tag parameters in the session initiation responses.