Immense stores of information essential for effective, efficient and profitable decisions are distributed throughout today’s cable plant. Most of it is untapped, under-used or useless because there are no collection, selection and visualization tools to help assess its value. Yet every day, cable operators could leverage Big Data to solve a myriad of problems—from distribution plant issues and capacity planning to improving the customer experience and deriving higher revenues from effective advertising.
This paper: * Outlines Big Data, * Provides examples of Big Data archtectures, * Describes sources of Big Data in existing systems, * And explores Big Data’s relevance for cable operators.