The various areas where large data, unstructured and semi-structured data is generated at a fast pace or need to be processed in a low latency space.
Below are the following data sets analyzed for telcos
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Data Set
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Volume
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Variety
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Velocity
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Remarks
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Order
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Medium
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Medium
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Low
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Customer application form is Semistructured
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|
CDRs
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High
|
Low
|
High
|
Billions of records per day
|
|
Payments
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Medium
|
Low
|
Medium
|
|
|
Network Data
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High
|
Medium
|
High
|
Mostly structured data for call usage
– very high volumes – semistructured if web data – deep packet inspection is included |
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Subscriber
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Medium
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Low
|
Low
|
|
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Products
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Low
|
Low
|
Low
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Telcos moving towards simpler
products |
It is clear from the data sets that the CDR, Network data, web usage data (including for web surfing, social interactions and content consumption – video, audio, shopping) are the key data sets that are relevant for Big Data elements.