Building a NOC
Luke Parrish
lparrish at iamerica.net
Mon Mar 16 20:26:09 UTC 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
>
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>On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:14:47 -0500 (EST)
>> From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan at xcom.net>
>> To: John_W_Connors at res.raytheon.com
>> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
>> 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. hannigan at xcom.net
>> Cambridge, MA http://www.xcom.net
>>
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