A telecommunications platform has a cluster of processors which collectively
perform
a platform processing function. Plural processors of the cluster have Internet
Protocol (IP) capabilities and respective plural IP interfaces. The plural processors
of the cluster all have a same IP address. An Internet Protocol (IP) handler distributed
throughout the cluster renders the IP interfaces of the plural processors of the
cluster exchangeable so that knowledge of which one of the plural processors of
the cluster is hosting an IP software application being accessed is unnecessary
when selecting one of the plural IP interfaces for connecting to the cluster.
