[15847] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Building a NOC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Metcalf)
Mon Mar 23 16:57:31 1998
From: Andrew Metcalf <prelude@mindspring.com>
Reply-To: "prelude@mindspring.com" <prelude@mindspring.com>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 16:01:36 -0500
On Saturday, March 21, 1998 2:31 PM, Howard C. Berkowitz [SMTP:hcb@clark.net] wrote:
> At 14:51 -0500 3/16/98, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> >I think I'd disagree with that. Where would all you folks be if you never
> >picked up a book? You wouldn't be reading this list. Seriously, while
> >there's not an ORA "How to Build a NOC" book with some cute animal on the
> >cover, there is some information out there worth reading.
<>snip<>
> Excellent observation. There was a text, _Engineering and Operations in
> the Bell System_, that gave some good operational experience. With
> divestiture, I'm not sure who took it over. I vaguely remember that
> _Transmission Systems for Communications_ went to AT&T Bell Labs, and E&O
> went to Bellcore.
The Bellcore information superstore has a lot of planning titles:
http://bigbird.bellcore.com/ido/
andrew
It is in the Reeds nature to bend, it is in the Oaks nature not to bend.