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

Wed Dec 16 21:46:00 UTC 2020

Dave Cohen wrote:
> Frankly, I think the days of the "showpiece NOC" being relevant ended 
> a while before COVID. I worked at a Tier 1 for >10 years in a 
> customer-facing capacity, largely dealing with "serious" enterprise 
> customers. The number of customers who toured the NOC in that time was 
> less than 5 (i.e much less than 1%), despite generally offering it up 
> to new and quickly-scaling customers. I actually spent more time 
> visiting customer NOCs over that time than I did my own with customers 
> (and some of theirs were more impressive anyway).
I just remember that, back in my BBN days (a LONG time ago), the various 
Defense Data Network NOCs, around the world, used to keep their 
big-screen monitors tuned to CNN.

Miles Fidelman

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