Abstract: A telecommunication management system including management centers provides management services which communicate via management messages in both directions with telecommunication network elements of a telecommunication network and a management message transfer point which enables the management centers and the telecommunication network elements to communicate, each in its own specific way, carries out the necessary conversion in the transfer of management messages between management centers and telecommunication network elements and is responsible for routing messages and making multiple copies of them in the case of messages with more than one destination. The message transfer point includes a plurality of management message transfer devices each serving a set of management applications and each telecommunication network element associated with a set of management applications has an interface for communicating with the management message transfer device serving that set.