[44683] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Operations Luminaries?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Sat Dec 8 19:18:51 2001
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:18:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
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Cc: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Rafi Sadowsky wrote:
> Hi Pete
>
> Would "old timers" that ran older networks (such as ARPANET or BITNET)
> count too ? from the answers it seems that no network operations existed
> before "the Internet" - of course the networks were _much_ smaller but
> IMHO 9.6Kbit/sec backbones must have had other challenges - right ?
There were operations centers just not *Internet* operations centers.
Bellcore and IBM spring to mind.
