Patent ID: 7984153

Claim:
A method, comprising: collecting, via a collector module, network information from one or more domains of a communication network; processing, via an analytical module executing on a computing device comprising at least one processor, the network information in order to determine a domino impact of growth of the communication network, wherein processing the network information comprises determining a number of lower network resources and a number of higher network resources within plurality types of networks in the one or more domains of the communication network, and wherein the number of higher network resources is determined based on a provisioned connections method by: r n = ∑ 1 m ⁢ ⁢ q mn * [ ( b L ) m / ( b H ) n ] wherein r n is the quantity of n th set of higher network resources, m is the number of sets of lower network resources, n is the number of sets of the higher network resources, q mn is a quantity of provisioned connections between the m th lower network resources and the n th higher network resources, (b L ) m is a bandwidth of the mth lower network resources, and (b H ) n is a bandwidth of the n th higher network resources; and outputting, via a presentation module, the processed network information collected from the one or more domains of the communication network.