Hands-on Flink Workshop: Implement Stream Processing | Register Now. The estimated cost of network downtime for telecommunication companies can exceed billions of dollars due to equipment failures, software misconfiguration, and power outages. To avoid these costs, telcos need a holistic view of their networks to proactively identify and resolve issues. A data streaming platform can transform how telcos monitor and address network health and support issues by ingesting and processing real-time data at scale from customer behavioral data, network performance metrics, and subnetwork data. This approach enables predictive customer support, ensuring SLAs, saving time and cost, improving resource allocation, accelerating new feature rollout, increasing trust and transparency, and reducing churn. However, telcos face technical challenges such as siloed data, unprecedented volume of data, disconnected teams, batch ETL/ELT data pipelines, legacy technologies, lack of scalability in running after-the-fact jobs, and lack of visibility into other teams and shared data views. Confluent's data streaming platform can overcome these challenges by analyzing real-time data holistically, training predictive algorithms to identify patterns indicative of potential problems, enabling swift intervention to avoid widespread disruptions.