Method for scaling-up a telecommunication system

An increased capability telecommunication system produced from a method for scaling-up an existing software process to operate on a scale up of a known telecommunication system comprising the steps of:

• a. computing a scaling factor for scaling from a known telecommunication system to an increased capability telecommunication system;
• b. computing a lambda factor from an M/G/1 queuing model of the more capable telecommunication system;
• c. computing N.sub.i for the known telecommunication system;
• d. computing N.sub.i the increased capability telecommunication system;
• e. computing a process cycle time from the results of steps a-d;
• f. comparing the computed process cycle time result with an acceptance threshold and if the computed process cycle time is at most equal to the acceptance threshold then stopping as the results of scaling operation and hence the operation of the process for the increased capability telecommunication system acceptable, otherwise continuing to step g;
• g. changing an architecture of the increased capability telecommunication system and returning to step a.