A mid-point call management node subject to monitoring through a
workstation communicatively coupled thereto, provides call services
(e.g., through extensible markup language (XML), and in particular call
control extensible markup language (CCXML) and/or voice extensible markup
language (VXML), instructions) for an inbound call received from an
originating network at an originating point-of-presence (POP) associated
with multiple, disparate call centers, the call services being provided
in response to call management application instructions issued according
to enterprise-specific strategies for optimizing call handling between
the originating POP and domestic and/or international ones of the
disparate call centers communicatively coupled thereto. Call center
information (e.g., call load information) received at the management node
from the multiple call centers may be used in connection with providing
the call services. The enterprise-specific strategies may be instantiated
as processes for: call routing, load balancing, work force management,
and/or customer relationship management.