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 <ra...@meganet.net> wrote: > We used to have some CRTs with MRTG running in the late 90’s 😊 > > > > P > > > > *From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces+razor=meganet....@nanog.org> *On Behalf Of *Eric > Kuhnke > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 16, 2020 3:50 PM > *To:* nanog@nanog.org list <nanog@nanog.org> > *Subject:* Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever? > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Are the days of such an environment gone forever? > > > > > > >
