[15858] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Building a NOC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Tue Mar 24 10:01:58 1998
In-Reply-To: <01BD54E2.A0E13DE0.prelude@mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 09:16:40 -0500
To: "prelude@mindspring.com" <prelude@mindspring.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@clark.net>
At 16:01 -0500 3/21/98, Andrew Metcalf wrote:
>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
>
Thanks. I ran some searches and it appears either the book is out of print
or they handed it off to someone else. I suspect the former.