Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

I would not be surprised to see Cisco CTC (the alarm control
panel/monitoring software for 15454s carrying TDM, SDH/SONET circuits)
still being used in the year 2030 in some places.


On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 1:10 PM Paul Amaral <razor () meganet net> wrote:

> We used to have some CRTs with MRTG running in the late 90’s 😊
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> *Subject:* Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?
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> With the covid19 situation, obviously lots of ISPs have their NOC
> personnel working from home, with VPN (or remote desktop) access to all the
> internal tools, VoIP at home, etc.
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> In the traditional sense, by "showpiece NOC" I mean a room designed for
> the purpose of having large situational awareness displays on a wall,
> network weathermaps and charts, alerting systems, composed of four or more
> big flat panel displays. Ideally configured to be actually useful for NOC
> purposes and also something impressive looking for customer tours.
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> To what extent potential customers find that sort of thing to be a
> signifier of seriousness on the part of an ISP, I suppose depends on what
> sort of customers they are, and their relative degree of technical
> sophistication.
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> Are the days of such an environment gone forever?