A common data lake provides a centralized location for operational state, telemetry, logs, alarms, and other information collected from access-network devices and applications. Centralized data enables monitoring tools to correlate information across multiple nodes, evaluate network health, identify trends, and support analytics-driven automation. Historical data can also assist with troubleshooting, performance baselining, capacity planning, and detection of abnormal behavior. The data lake does not replace physical access devices; it stores information describing their operation. It is intended to make relevant information available to authorized applications rather than prevent historical access. It also does not automatically transform subscriber unicast traffic into multicast. Forwarding behavior is controlled through service and network configuration, whereas the data lake supports visibility, analysis, and operational decision-making.