An apparatus in one example comprises a serving mobile switching center feature
server and one or more internet protocol multimedia subsystem components. The serving
mobile switching center feature server translates between a call control message
originated by or terminated to a mobile telephone and an internet protocol based
procedure message. The one or more internet protocol multimedia subsystem components
serve to propagate the internet protocol based procedure message. The one or more
internet protocol multimedia subsystem components provide packet-switched switching
functions to the serving mobile switching center feature server based on the internet
protocol based procedure message.