[43604] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NOC Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Whalen)
Fri Oct 19 17:27:30 2001
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:27:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
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Of course when it looks like mission control, customers are always being
paraded through, and nocsters generally dont like that. I once worked in
a NOC where they had a conference room next to it with quick open and
close shutters. So you'd be workin, then on display all of a sudden
without warning. I really loathed that.
Brian "Sonic" Whalen
Success = Preparation + Opportunity
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, J.D. Falk wrote:
>
> On 10/18/01, Kath <kath@kathweb.net> wrote:
>
> > Curious Question: What does your NOC look like (Or could you describe it
> > any)? For some companies, it looks like NASA Mission Control
> > (http://www.pihana.com/corporate/nocpictures-EN.htm) and for others it is
> > like a closet with 2 guys inside with one watching DivX rips and the other
> > running DOS ping.
>
> Most I've worked with/in were somewhere in between, but always
> wishing it looked more like Mission Control.
>
> (Mission Control feels important, which is good for NOC morale.)
>
> --
> J.D. Falk "you can bomb the world to pieces,
> <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> but you can't bomb it into peace"
> -- Michael Franti
>
