1. A system for providing redundancy for an entity in a telecommunications network, the system comprising: a first network entity of a first network, adapted to send and receive traffic; and a second network entity, of a second network, configured to operate as a standby network entity, wherein the second network entity takes control of only a portion of the functions of the first network entity in response to a partial failure in the first network entity when a failure to receive either a primary status message by the second network over the first network or a secondary status message from the first network over the second network.