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Re: Building a NOC

  • From: Luke Parrish
  • Date: Mon Mar 16 16:38:26 1998

Or you could bypass all that, fork over a little money and hire a
consultant that has done it many times, to come in and tell ya exactly how
to do everything. Then you will not have to learn the hard-way of trial and
error. Since we are talking about a 75,000 node network, I don't think too
many errors would be looked very highly upon...

Luke
1-800-789-6062 x3010



At 02:51 PM 3/16/98 -0500, 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.
>
>I'd suggest digging through some telco info (if you'd like to consider a
>CO a NOC).  Also, there should be plenty of people on this list that
>work in or have even designed decent sized NOCs.  You can also cheat and
>go browsing as a prospective customer at someplace like Exodus or any
>other colo facility that is well-managed and modern.  You can actually
>learn quite a bit by just looking around...
>
>Hopefully some of the startup NSPs will answer here, as the experience
>should still be fresh in their minds...
>
>Charles
>
>~~~~~~~~~					~~~~~~~~~~~
>Charles Sprickman 				Internet Channel
>INCH System Administration Team			(212)243-5200
>[email protected]					[email protected]
>
>On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:14:47 -0500 (EST)
>> From: Martin Hannigan <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Building a NOC
>> 
>> > 
>> > Would anyone have information or knowledge of books, WWW Sites, or other
>> > means that would provide details on constructing a state of the art
NOC to
>> > support 75000+ nodes in a LAN/MAN/WAN environment
>> > 
>> > Thanks in advance
>> > JC
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
>> No books, it's all experience. 
>> 
>> 
>> Martin Hannigan                    V:617.500.0108
>> Director - Data Networks           F:617.500.0002
>> XCOM Technologies, INC.            [email protected]
>> Cambridge, MA                      http://www.xcom.net
>> 
>
>
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