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An Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) working...

An Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) working group is recommending the start of efforts to standardize an ICT “Analytics Metadata Framework” to help users of big data analytics “understand and leverage operator-generated analytics insight.” That framework would simplify data…

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use from multiple operators and would help analytics aggregators present a “broader, cross-operator perspective,” the ATIS working group said Thursday. “This initiative would involve coordination with other groups/bodies to leverage their work on data security and consumer privacy concerns.” Operators already exchange high volumes of data through traditional mechanisms, and these “could be leveraged for advancing telecom industry big data analysis initiatives,” ATIS said. The group said it plans to investigate if reusing these mechanisms would expedite implementation of their recommendation (http://xrl.us/bofgb6).