4. A method according to claim 3 , further comprising: assigning a session stream associated with a load balancing switch to the voice packets based on the translation indicator.
3. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the voice call is represented by a plurality of voice packets, the method further comprising: encrypting the voice packets; and prepending a translation service address to the encrypted packets for forwarding to the translation platform, wherein the translation platform is further configured to decrypt the voice packets.