A method of performing lawful interception of a multimedia call between
two or more terminals. The method comprises detecting the initiation of
said call at monitoring equipment located in the call path, and
forwarding from the monitoring equipment to a gateway, parameters
defining at least one of the forward and reverse channels of said call.
At least one multimedia call is set up from said gateway to a monitoring
terminal in dependence upon the received parameters. Following the
setting up of the first mentioned multimedia call, forward and/or reverse
channel data is intercepted at said monitoring equipment, the intercepted
data routed to said gateway, and the data transmitted to the monitoring
terminal over the forward channel of the or each second mentioned
multimedia call.