generated, and the alarm created
a ticket and then people started inves-
tigating. But in the case of anomaly
detection, you’re not relying on those
alarms. You notice something unusual
in the traffic pattern and you might not
know exactly what’s wrong but you
know something isn’t right and you
can investigate. And then, of course,
you can enhance your algorithms. Theparadigm is shifting from detecting
issues to looking at the bigger picture
and understanding why anomalies
are happening.”EXTERMINATING ROBOCALLS
Another application for machine
learning in telecoms is identifying
robocalling and spam calls. “We’ve
deployed an algorithm that detects$24bn+
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Number of
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