Network support for mobility system capacity planning using real-time snapshot across networked mobile switching centers for roaming mobile terminals

摘要

An apparatus in one example has: a telecommunications network having a plurality of mobile switching centers each of the mobile switching centers having a respective visitor location register; a selected at least one mobile switching center of the plurality of mobile switching centers; periodic time intervals; and a respective set of recordings of numbers of current entries in the respective visitor location registers measured at the same designated time of the selected at least one mobile switching center existing at an end of each of the time intervals.