[44685] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Operations Luminaries?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Dec 8 20:18:30 2001
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 20:18:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Craig Partridge wrote:
> > 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 was an ARPANET network operations center @ BBN.
Did any of the BBN managers publish a book on how to run a network
operation center?
I'm familar with Katie Hafner's "Where Wizards Stay Up Late." But it
is more history than operations oriented.