Exploring visualization of complex telecommunications systems network data

High-speed broadband telecommunication systems are built with extensive redundancy and complex management systems to ensure robustness. The presence of a fault may be detected by the offending component, its parent component or by other components. This can potentially result in a net effect of a large number of alarm events being raised. There can be a considerable amount of alarm depending on the size and configuration of the network. Data visualization can reduce mountains of data to visually insightful representations, which can aid decision-making and identification of faults. The paper explores data visualizations to provide a context to assist in the identification of such faults.