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The present thrust is to develop a broadband intelligent network system which is able to sustain a large number of users and a varying amount of data while maintaining high availability of resources and acceptable performance. In such a scenario, scalability is an important aspect. In this paper we consider the impact of increasing the number of users supported by a network node and show that the...