Managing data will be key to success in building autonomous networks. This is a proposition as easy to define as it is challenging to achieve. Speakers at Ericsson’s recent OSS/BSS event in London all agreed that data was the problem and the solution, but one operator provided a glimmer of hope. Richard Kendall, the Enterprise General Manager of Architecture, at Australian wholesale fiber provider NBN, shared his company’s method for managing data for AI and automation. NBN operates a wholesale network across Australia and a small fixed wireless network, which is provided by Ericsson, and geostationary satellite connectivity for remote regions. “Everybody is talking about ‘this AI tool, that tool, this algorithm, that algorithm.’ We are of the opinion that…