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

Wed Dec 16 22:50:24 UTC 2020

>  That is not to say that large monitoring rooms are a better choice over
automation (which they are not).

I'm sure when the automation is perfect and widespread to the point that it
catches and alerts on every network event, the monitoring rooms will
disappear.

But unless you have an entire organization dedicated to automation
development or pay an incredibly large sum of money for pre-built packages,
the business decision may still be made to actively monitor the network
with eyeballs.

Every failure mode is known until a new one pops up. Automation without any
kind of ML secret sauce relies on known failure-modes.

Not advocating one or the other, just playing Devil's advocate for the
Devil's advocate.

-Matt

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:28 PM Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peace,
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 12:21 AM Lady Benjamin PD Cannon <ben at 6by7.net>
> wrote:
>
>> We are still operating ours - 27 1080P projectors - but with a skeleton
>> crew of just 3.  Given the air volume, it’s almost like outside.
>>
>
> A devil advocate here,
>
> First of all, COVID-19 is really serious.
>
> With that in mind, with all the necessary precautions office space *may*
> be managed safely to prevent the spread.
>
> Production plants had security measures preventing workforce injuries for
> a century already.  Just a bit of that, with constant trainings, would get
> your monitoring room safe, especially with all the bars closed and
> everything operating on delivery.
>
> That is not to say that large monitoring rooms are a better choice over
> automation (which they are not).
>
> --
> Töma
>
>>

-- 
Matt Erculiani
ERCUL-ARIN
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